Postcoloniality, Globalization, and Diaspora: Whats Next? [Hardcover]

Postcoloniality, Globalization, and Diaspora: Whats Next? looks forward within the field of postcolonial studies and goes beyond the notion of hybridity and postcolonial reason beyond just portraying it.This volume offers a futuristic vision going beyond the common paradigms of postcolonility, diaspora, and globalization, speculating a framework beyond master-slave dialectic. This new paradigm locates a humanitarian space purifying ego through various forms: writing, philosophizing, and theorizing new ideas. Authors focus on writers from Mauritius to India.Ashmita Khasnabish is lecturer at Lasell University and visiting scholar at Oxford University.

The essays in this collection trace the progression from the constructs of postcolonialism through to globalization and pose the question: what comes next?

The contributors represent a wide geographical and cultural area and a wide range of expertise. The subject matter of these essays is equally far-reaching, focusing on the movement toward environmental stewardship among the first peoples of New Zealand to hybridity in Mauritius so complex that it defies that category. What draws these disparate essays into a whole is their common emphasis  while laying out the trajectory in literary and cultural studies from postcolonialsm and post structuralism to globalism, they all note the strictures of these paradigms: the focus on subalternity, the post-structuralist imposition of Western interpretive frameworks on non-Western thought, the globalization that flattens out difference in an effort to smooth largely economic exchanges.

In different ways these essays leave behind subalternity and erasure of difference to propose constructs of egalitarian exchange, based upon alternative discursive centers more confidently asserted. And as several of the authors assert, the establishment of such discursive centers is at its core a metaphysical undertaking. The stance underlying these essays is that expressed by ls)