Interdisciplinary Measures Literature and the Future of Postcolonial Studies

Where now for postcolonial studies? That is the central question in this new volume from one of the field's most original thinkers. Not so long ago, the driving force behind postcolonial criticism was literary; increasingly, however, many have claimed that the future of postcolonial studies is interdisciplinary.Interdisciplinary Measuresthoroughly considers this alternative trajectory through the field of postcolonial studies by setting up a series of conversations among these newly postcolonial disciplinesnotably geography, environmental studies, history, and anthropologyand literary studies in which the imaginative possibilities of non-Western epistemologies are brought to the fore.

Graham Huggan is chair of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures in the School of English at the University of Leeds, and codirector of the Leeds Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies.  He previously taught at Harvard University and is the author of numerous volumes, including The Postcolonial Exotic.