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Metanarratives of the postcolonial world

From the forthcoming What Postcolonial Theory Doesn’t Say (ed. Anna Bernard, Ziad Elmarsafy and Stuart Murray), Mrinalini Greedharry (Laurentian) and Pasi Ahonen (Swansea): Managing Postcolonialism. Nikita Dhawan (Innsbruck): Affirmative Sabotage of the Master’s Tools: The Paradox of Postcolonial Enlightenment. Gurminder Bhambra (Warwick) and Walter Mignolo (Duke): On Decolonial-Postcolonial Dialogue. Sara Amighetti (UCL) and Alasia Nuti (Cambridge): David Miller’s Theory of Redress and the Complexity of Colonial Injustice. Ajay Parasram (Carleton): Postcolonial Territory and the Coloniality of the State. Amy Maguire (Newcastle): Self-Determination, Justice, and a “Peace Process”: Irish Nationalism, the Contemporary Colonial Experience and the Good Friday Agreement. Ema Pires (Evora): Re-scripting Colonial Heritage. Natsu Taylor Saito (Georgia State): Tales of Color and Colonialism: Racial Realism and Settler Colonial Theory. Bill Ashcroft (UNSW): Postcolonial Modernities. From The Apollonian, Najila T.Y. (MES Asmabi): Dismantling the Metanarratives of the Postcolonial World: A Study of Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss. Patrycja Austin and Jaydeep Sarangi interview Bill Ashcroft on rethinking post-colonialism. Corey McCall reviews Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics: Finding Something Different by Anthony C. Alessandrini.