Priyamvada Gopal and Neil Lazarus (Guest editors)
The
invasion and occupation of Iraq is a crucial world-historical event which
calls for a fundamental reframing of postcolonial studies. ‘Iraq’ shows
us not the ways in which the world has changed since the mid-twentieth century
but the ways in which it has not changed. Imperialism, despite Michael Hardt and Antonio
Negri’s famous declaration, is not over. Neither, however, is resistance
to it.
The contributors to this special issue of
new formations address themselves provocatively to the challenge
of redirecting the field of postcolonial studies in diverse ways, looking
at topics from ‘urbicide’, multiculturalism and eco-criticism to ideologies
of postcolonial studies (including its Francophone dimensions), devolutionary
Britain, cricket, counterfactualisms, humanism, humanitarianism, Zionism,
and the scandal of Guantanamo Bay.
Contributors: Bashir Abu-Manneh,
Crystal Bartolovich, Chetan Bhatt, Kanishka Goonewardena, Priyamvada Gopal,
Barbara Harlow, Stefan Kipfer, Neil Lazarus, Graeme Macdonald, Pablo Mukherjee,
David Murphy, Robert Spencer, Claire Westall
Cover image: ©AFP, Israeli girls
write messages in Hebrew on shells ready to be fired toward Hezbollah targets
in southern Lebanon
Priyamvada Gopal and
Neil Lazarus Postcolonial
Studies After the Invasion of Iraq
Kanishka Goonewardena
Bashir Abu-Manneh Israel in US Empire
Robert Spencer Edward Said and the War in Iraq
Crystal Bartolovich History After the End of History: Critical Counterfactualism
and Revolution
Priyamvada Gopal The 'Moral Empire': Africa, Globalisation and the
Politics of Conscience
Chetan Bhatt The Fetish of the Margin: Religious Absolutism, Anti-Racism
and Postcolonial Silence
Graeme Macdonald Postcolonialism and Scottish Studies
David Murphy Beyond Anglophone Imperialism?
Pablo Mukherjee Surfing the Second Waves: Amitav Ghosh's Tide Country
REVIEWS
Barbara Harlow Crossroads Guantánamo
Claire Westall Englishness and Its (Cricketing) Ashes
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