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Author:   Roslyn Joy Irving (University Of Liverpool, Uk; Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany; Xjtlu, China) ,  Rachael Sumner (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9781041099901

ISBN 10:   1041099908
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   15 April 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures Contributors Introduction: Theoretical Vitality in the Contemporary Moment Part I: Infrastructures 1: Subaltern Ecology and Planetary Solidarity in Orijit Sen’s River of Stories 2: Transcultural Humour and the City 3: Infrastructures of Memory in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland 4: Disenchanting the Return Home in Diasporic Writing: Infrastructural Poetics in Anna Moï’s L’Année du Cochon de Feu Part II: Literatures 5: The Location of Transnational Postcolonialism in Afrodiasporic Novels 6: Young Women with Sharp Knives: The Case of Oyinkan Braithwaite 7: Decolonial Dystopia: Violence in Omar El Akkad’s American War 8: Water as Cultural Memory: Elemental Resistance in Richard Flanagan’s Death of a River Guide 9: The First World War, Indian Sepoys and the Ethics of Postcolonial War Commemoration 10: Literary Form Through the New Edition of VS Naipaul’s An Area of Darkness Part III: Applications 11: The bhadralok as “the Naxalite”: Questioning Revolutionary Identities 12: Vigné d’Octon, the Blockhouse, and the Paradox of the Sublime 13: “The Szgany are quartered”: Romani History, Representation, and Coloniality in Bram Stoker’s Dracula 14: From Soft Skin to Strong Voices: Lived Experiences of Displaced Children through Digital Storytelling 15: Freudian Slip: On the Persistence of “Colonial” Prejudices in Political Ecology and Critical Physical Geography Index

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Roslyn Joy Irving is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in English Literature at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Rachael Sumner is a senior lecturer in English at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.

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