Autorentext

Christina Slopek-Hauff holds a postdoc position in the section of British Studies at TU Dortmund University. Her research focuses on postcolonial and British literatures, medical humanities and queer and gender studies. She has published her research with Brill, Anglia, Gender Forum, Postcolonial Text and Storyworlds.

Miriam Hinz is a doctoral student at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. Her PhD project is concerned with intersectional cosmopolitanisms in Black British literatures and her research focus and teaching activities concentrate on postcolonial and gender studies with special interest in African, Caribbean and Black British contexts.

Klappentext

Participation in Postcolonial Wor(l)ds: Literatures for, on or against the Global Literary Market offers an innovative systematic definition of postcolonial literary participation. Analyzing the position of postcolonial authors and literatures in the global literary marketplace and how they navigate the field, this volume promotes research at the intersection of postcolonial studies, literary analysis and market studies. It succeeds in establishing 'participation' as a concept that is related to but distinct from complicity, implication and intervention, and whose numerous facets we unearth in critical explorations of the literary market.

Bringing together established and emerging scholars from diverse academic backgrounds, the collection examines participation across different genres, cultures and markets. Contributions bridge a wide range of topics and postcolonial cultures, ranging from speculative fiction to children's literature, exploring contemporary issues including race, gender, queerness, ecocriticism and neurodiversity. This approach positions participation as a fundamentally important analytical category and highlights its previously unrecognized significance in postcolonial scholarship. The volume fosters a multidimensional understanding of literature that encompasses structures of production and marketing. By connecting postcolonial studies with the thriving field of book and market studies, it serves as both an essential introduction for students and a valuable resource for researchers.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Participation - Complicity, Implication and Intervention (Christina Slopek-Hauff and Miriam Hinz) Part 1 2. The Postcolonial Exotic of Diversity and Inclusion Statements (Alexandra Dane) 3. 'Too African' for the West? African Literatures in English, Practices of Languaging and the Production of Literary Value (Swen Lasse Awe and Birgit Neumann) 4. Challenging Marginalization in the Western Publishing Industry: The Participation of Postcolonial Arabic Fiction via Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (Mohammed Muharram) Part 2 5. Postcolonial Participation and Bangladeshi Writing in English (Touhid Chowdhury) 6. Participation in Postcolonial Comics: Self-reflexive and Collaborative Narrative Strategies in Birgit Weyhe's Madgermanes and Rude Girl (Rita Maricocchi) 7. Smiling Back: Locating Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister the Serial Killer in the Nigerian Book Market (Lucas Mattila) 8. 'land does not belong to people': An Ecocritical Reading of M ori Narratives and Participation in Environmental Activism (Britta Colligs) Part 3 9. Participation in Possible Futures: Technology in Aboriginal Australian Speculative Fiction (Bettina Charlotte Burger) 10. Towards Inclusive Participation: The Heroic Community of Care in Patience Agbabi's Black British Children's Novel The Infinite (Elisabeth Bekers and Kayra Maes) 11. YA Fiction and Utopian Desire in Akwaeke Emezi's Afrofuturist Novel Pet (Elizabeth Abena Osei and Nii Nai Adjei-Mensah) Afterword 12. Reflections on the Chapters, Academia and Future Ways of Participation (Miriam Hinz and Christina Slopek-Hauff)