Index
Abidjan, 335
Accra, , 225
Achebe, Chinua
Arrow of God
the crisis of decolonization,
on an African literature syllabus, 224
on Joseph Conrad, 230
race and racism in the colonial enterprise, 503
Whiteness and race, 499
Adichie, Chimamanda
on Africa in the global imaginary, 202
aesthetics
context and, 268
de-aestheticization of African writers, 202
of alterity, 137
of Anglophone vernacular in India, 434
of the sublime, 396
Africa
challenges for universities, 216
conservative English curricula, 220
flattened in the global imaginary,
impacts of colonialism, 339
racist depictions of, 334
African literature
at the University of Cape Town,
at the University of Ghana, 221
at the University of the Western Cape, 495
critical ownership of, 211
English and English literary studies
and, 502
failure to decolonize curricula, 206
in the Western university, 205
language debates, 242
role of the African writer, 203
sound and, 224
Ahmed, Sara, 32
Ahmed, Siraj, 64
Alfian Sa’at, 172
Alfian Sa’at and Neo Hai Bin
Allen, Chadwick, 102
Alvi, Moniza
“The Wedding,”
Ambedkar, B.R.
partition of India, 409
American literature
at the University of Cambridge, 26
at the University of Oxford, 26
false coherence, 16
unrecognized Africanist presence,
Anaxagorou, Anthony, 442
Andrews, Kehinde
on Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford, 151
anglophone, 246
global anglophone, 421, 425
intersection between English and World Literature, 435
multilingualism and,
World Literature and, 432
orality and, 252
poetry across borders, 445
vernacular aesthetics in India, 434
anthologies, ; see Norton Anthology of English Literature
avoiding monumental status, 163
collective identities and, 160
colonial epistemologies and,
decolonized theory of, 159
defining literariness, 161
editorial process,
limits of the printed book,
of English literature,
anticolonialism, 7
anticolonial university, 7
British canon and,
influence of Victorianism, 415
Marxism and, 186
Victorian canon and, 407
anti-Semitism
and Blackness in The Great Gatsby,
in medieval England,
in medieval Europe,
Aotearoa New Zealand, , , , ,
and Australian literature,
First Nations peoples, 82
immigration policies, 89
literary history,
Pasifika peoples, 84
population demographics, 85
Atlantic, the,
Christian slave economies, 316
Australia, , , ,
colonization of, , 90
compromise of right thinking, 102
Indigenous Australian scholarship, 30
Indigenous Australians
constitutional recognition for, 81
literary culture in, 82
literary studies, 83,
population demographics, 85
postcolonial studies in, 84
settler colonialism in, 30
The Voice to parliament, 89
treaty, 89
White Australia Policy, 89
avant garde, 117
Bahadur, Gaiutra
translating I Even Regret Night, 250
Beowulf
decolonial reading, 360
Bible, the, , 326; see Book of Revelation, the
African American interpretation, 317
justification of slavery, 316
relation to colonialism, 315
translation in Africa, 339
Bigger 6 Collective, the
decolonizing Romanticism, 159
Blackness, 10, 128, 129, 142
and anti-Semitism in The Great Gatsby,
in Black Consciousness, 189
in England, 128
in medieval art, 358
in the British academy, 132
political Blackness, 13
Blake, William, 396
Book of John Mandeville
representing foreignness, 158
Borderlands, US–Mexico
British Empire. See Macaulay, Thomas
capitalism and extraction,
English department in, 56
English language, 51
importance of the ocean, 427
in British curricula, 387
in British Isles, 359
in Victorian studies,
invasion of Australia,
role in opium trade,
Scotland and, 390
the canon and,
World Literature and, 424
Brodber, Erna
Myal
colonial literary education in,
Bruce, James, 398
Calypso
poetry and,
Cambridge, University of, 32
decentralized structure, 25
representations in literature, 138
teaching race in American Literature, 26
canon, the
aesthetic education and, 15
canon as method, 14
canon wars, 9
colonial curricula and, 150
core methodologies and, 149
decolonizing romanticism,
expansion and revision, 14
Indigenous authors and, 66
influence on pan-Africanists, 409
influence on anticolonial intellectuals,
of contemporary British poetry, 441
postcolonial poetry and, 458
Cape Town, University of, 489, 491, 493
African literature at,
dominance of English literary studies, 494
English Department at, 495
Capildeo, Vahni, 455
“In 2190, Albion’s Civil Conflicts Finally Divided Along Norman-Saxon Lines”
decolonizing practice, 456
Englishness and Otherness,
in a course on “multicultural Britain,”
capitalism
and imperialism, 481
decolonization attempts, 290
Marxist analysis, 189
plural origins, 195
print capitalism and the novel, 293
racial capitalism in South Africa, 189
Capitalocene, 387
Caribbean literary studies
beyond traditional genre,
broadening the object of study,
development of,
methodological trends in,
models of literary value,
symbiosis of literature and criticism, 485
Carlyle, Thomas, 409
Education, Emigration, and Empire, 45
influence on W. E. B. Du Bois, 410
Irish migration, 43
on the “Irish condition,” 44
Carothers, J.C.
racist psychiatry,
Cartography, 423
decolonial remapping in Kei Miller’s poetry,
literary cartographies, 426
world-making in graduate courses and, 468
Casement, Roger
investigation of Congo atrocities,
Chakrabarty, Dipesh
life-worlds, 192
Chicago (Abidjan), 335
Chicago, University of
Black Studies at, 11
China
impact of opium trade,
chrestomathy
in Amitav Ghosh’s novels, 431
Christianity. See Bible, the; Crusades, the
Blackness and, 358
conversion to, 358
in Haiti, 317
slavery and, 316
Whiteness and, 358
Coetzee, J. M.
Life & Times of Michael K
disability in, 301
Waiting for the Barbarians
disability in, 303
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Kubla Khan, 399
colonialism
and modernity, 168
civilizing mission, 90
discourse of, 490
in Humanities education, 149
in the Americas, 459
in the Indian Ocean, 427
origins of English literature, 238
Combahee River Collective, 269
Congo Free State, the
colonial violence and exploitation, 261,
exposure of atrocities, 263
site for adventure travelers, 334
Conrad, Joseph, 230
Heart of Darkness, , , 274
critiques of, 151
dreamscape and experience,
interpretations of, 277
perception of time,
representation of African characters, , 266
representation of the Congo, 334
response to Belgian exploitation in the Congo, 262
White man’s place in the Empire, 268
in the Congo, 264
Cooper, Carolyn, 484, 486
embodied contexts of oral texts, 484
mutually constitutive relationship of high and low cultural forms,
Creolization, 445
Crusades, the
in medieval romance,
racialization of Muslims,
D’Aguiar, Fred
on Black British poetry, 443
Dakar
depiction in film, 283
Dangarembga, Tsitsi
Nervous Conditions
mental illness and decolonization, 312
decolonial, 415
decolonial method, 112
describing an active process, 241
limits of, 211
rather than postcolonial,
decolonial pedagogy, 30, 80,
against siloed curriculum, 276
formalist analysis,
research and citation, 101
decoloniality, ,
“true decolonization” and, 288
as critical theory,
in the US–Mexico Borderlands,
ongoing process, 4
decolonization, 237, 275
and anticolonial thought, 7
decolonizing Whiteness
in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, 89
depiction in film,
distinct from decolonize, 406
impact in the English department, 239
methodological nationalism,
not a metaphor, 237
revolutionary potential,
unfinished project, 149
degree structure
challenges of,
Dema, Tjawangwa
poetry and world-making, 468
Desai, Anita
Fasting, Feasting
disability and gender, 311
Diaz, Natalie
postcolonial poetry in the United States, 459
disability
from wartime violence, 309
in postcolonial literature, , 303,
in postcolonial studies,
in the Global South, , 311
marginalization of,
Douglass, Frederic, 429
Du Bois, W. E. B.
influence of Carlyle, 410
Duchamp, Marcel
infrathin, 112
Edoro, Aineh
anthropological readings of African texts, 202
Edoro, Ainehi, 203
education. See aesthetic education
literary studies in the colonial Caribbean,
the White middle class and, 133
Egblewogbe, Martin
Africanness, 208
Elhillo, Safia
English and Arabic, 461
Eliot, T. S.
“Little Gidding,” 117
enfranchisement
as approach to Caribbean literature,
English language
as medium of translation, 426
dialects and ownership of, 461
dominance destabilized, 239
in India, 240,
racialization, 245
Roman script, 243
Englishness, 241, 388, 405, 454, 493, 501, 502
and Shakespeare, 368
challenge from African literature, 502
Equiano, Olaudah
Interesting Narrative, 393
equity-seeking groups, , 257
eugenics
The Bell Curve, 334
Fanon, Frantz
“decolonize” as neocolonial tactic, 416
attack on racist psychiatry, 340
Blackness in France, 128
challenge to Marxism, 185
nation-state as the horizon of decolonization, 291
Wretched of the Earth, 13
Fawwaz, Zaynab
changing perceptions of Arab women, , 338
First Nations
in Australia, 87
contemporary writing, 91
presence on literary curricula, 90
territorial sovereignty, 87
The Voice to parliament, 89
university presence, 86
in Canada, 73
problems with “postcolonial,” 96
First Peoples
in Canada, 73
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fort Hare University, 496
Garvey, Marcus, 409
Gates, Henry Louis Jr.
on Frantz Fanon, 128
gender and sexuality studies. See queer studies; Tudor, Aloysxa; Women’s Studies Quarterly; trans studies
as decolonizing method,
Ghana, 256
Ghana, University of
Africanization,
of the English Department, 219
decolonial change at the English Department, 220
English curriculum, 260
history of,
colonial origins,
influence of University of London, 218
legacy of colonialism,
Ghanaian literature,
Ghazal, 462
Gikandi, Simon, 5
on outcomes of colonial schooling, 475
on slavery in British consciousness, 386
racial slavery and literary studies, 393
temporality of colonialism, 4
Glasgow, University of
addressing racial inequality on campus, 389
imperial origins of English department, 388
reparations for slavery, 389
globalization
World Literature and, 422
Gopal, Priyamvada, 7, 388, 399
critique of postcolonial theory, 25
importance of historical context, 390
Grace, Patricia
conflicting histories and temporalities, 92
Graham, Maria, 398
Gurnah, Abdul Razak, 427
Haiti
revolution of 1786
significance to romanticism, 394
Harjo, Joy, 459
Hayford, J. E. Casely
Ethiopia Unbound
remaking colonial institutions, 295
Gold Coast Native Institutions,
decolonization as imperialization, 294
Hemans, Felicia, 399
Hofmeyr, Isabel
on Pilgrim’s Progress, 150
Holden, Madronna, 61
Hong Kong, 430
imperialism
American imperialism, , 415
and Englishness, 405
civilizing mission, 46
in anthologies, 163
in the Victorian canon, 405
in universities, 8
Indian Ocean,
indentured labor, 429
linguistic encounters in Amitav Ghosh’s novels,
on a decolonial syllabus,
opium trade, 429
unfamiliar to US students, 431
Indigenous literatures
individualism, 136
institutional Authority,
religious influence on the university, 33
state influence on the university, 33
interleafing,
in decolonial reading, 275
James, C. L. R.
grammar school education in the colonial Caribbean, 475
influence of British canon, 408
promotion of West Indian literature,
The Black Jacobins, 409
Johnson, Linton Kwesi
on a syllabus, 445
Kapil, Bhanu, 446
Ban en Banlieue
lyric entanglement, 449
lyric subject and personal identity, 449
racial otherness and lyric alternatives, 446
Kaplan, Robert
pathological description of Abidjan, 335
Kincaid, Jamaica.
Annie John
colonial literary education in, 474
King of Moorland, 358
Kipling, Rudyard
on colonial curricula, 474
Kirkwood, Mike
White consciousness, 189
language
decolonization and, 244
dehumanizing language, 332
histories of exchange,
identity and
suggested assignment, 248
in nineteenth-century maritime worlds,
land and, 97
racialization, 245
relationship between written and spoken languages
in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand,
the erotic literary object and, 125
Laskari
in Amitav Ghosh’s novels, 431
law
literature and, 293
Lee, Christopher J, 237
Leicester, University of
cuts to medieval curriculum, 350
Levine, Caroline
on anthologizing world literature, 161
literary value, 480
defining literariness, 258
in Caribbean literary studies, 477,
interpretations of text, 221
locating First Nations writers, 100
poetic value, 442
race, class, gender, 483
role of literary prizes, 446
local knowledge
literature and, 69
Lowe, Lisa
past conditional temporality, 181
Makereti, Tina,
decolonizing literary time, 95
interrelationality, 95
Māori literature and nation-centrism, 94
Manathunga, Catherine, 85
Manganyi, Noel Chabani, 340
Mani, B. Venkat
on multilingualism and World Literature, 433
Manichaeism, 328
Manitoba, University of, 69
Maracle, Lee, 70
Marechera, Dambudzo
refusal of cultural ambassadorship, 203
Marxism
anticolonialism and,
Black Consciousness and,
combined and uneven development, 193
in subaltern studies,
literature and, 186
response from decoloniality,
medicine, history of. See psychiatry
interest in human displays, 342
racialized illness, 332
role of literature, 345
scientific racism,
using primary sources, 333
medieval studies,
decolonial syllabi, 357
entrenched conservatism, 350
Indigenous perspectives in, 360
Mexica, the
mythology in The Language of Flowers,
Mignolo, Walter, 3, 24, 25
challenge from interleafing, 275
decolonial method, 110
decoloniality, 111
epistemic disobedience, 36
freedom and coloniality, 113
knowledge creation, 113
Marxist materialism and, 196
on formal decolonization, 286
Miller, Kei
on role of postcolonial poets, 458
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
mapping new cartographies through poetry,
Mohabir, Rajiv
English and translating I Even Regret Night,
monolingualism, 244
monuments. See Rhodes Must Fall
English syllabus in South Africa, 493
force of memory, 492
malls in South Africa, 492
semiotic field of colonialism and, 490
symbolic presence, 490
Voortrekker Monument, 503
Moretti, Franco
law of literary evolution, 294
Mphahlele, Es’kia, 500
Muldoon, Paul
translation of Pharaoh’s Daughter,
multilingualism, 245
as decolonial approach to English literature, 434
global Anglophone and,
in one language, 249
vernacular English and, 245
multimedia
challenges for anthologization,
Nahuatl, 374
Naipaul, V. S.
A House for Mr Biswas
colonial literary education in, 474
Namjoshi, Suniti
Altitudes, 119
National Endowment for the Humanities
Victorian studies and, 413
nation-state, 290
in decolonization, 295
in World Literature,
national literature, 478
naturalization of,
role of literature, 292
Native Americans
in Vinland Sagas, 359
Nealee, 397
New Criticism
lyric poetry and, 440
New Lanark Cotton Mills, 387
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, 5, 25
against English literature, 242
as Bible translator, 339
Decolonising the Mind, 7, 292
importance of English in colonial education, 503
on South African English syllabi, 499
role in language debates, 292
significance in Scotland, 391
Third Worldist universalism, 406
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala
Pharaoh’s Daughter
translation into English,
Nietschze, Friedrich
monumental and critical histories,
Nigerian literature,
Norton Anthology of English Literature, 152, 154
interrogating the canon, 156
migration and race, 157
which English?, 157
Norton Anthology of World Literature,
O’Connor, Erin
against postcolonial critique, 414
oceans. See Atlantic, the; Indian Ocean; Pacific, the
in British Empire, 427
in decolonial cartography, 432
in literary history, 428
in literature, 427
in world literary studies, 427
linguistic encounters in literature,
on a decolonial syllabus,
Olusoga, David, 387
Oxford English Dictionary, 432
p’Bitek, Okot
Song of Lawino
strategies for teaching,
palimpsest, 111
paracolonialism, 470
Parzival, 358
Pedagogy
anti-racist, 333
challenges for a course in “Black British Poetry,”
challenges of degree structure,
course on “multicultural Britain,”
distributing power with classroom setup, 229
suggested assignment on linguistic identity, 248
teaching variety in British poetry,
teaching vernacular English,
through theater, 177
transhistorical comparison,
visiting practitioners,
philology
nineteenth-century recovery of early modern endeavors, 424
Pinto, Samantha
diasporic epistemologies, 130
poetics
in teaching, 456
poetry
love and the body, , 124
poetry and world-making,
race in Britain and, 455
teaching Black British poetry,
teaching variety in British poetry
poetry, lyric. See Kapil, Bhanu; Howe, Sarah
decolonized reading, 443
objectification of non-White poets, 440
race in Britain and, , 443
reclaiming from whiteness, 451
poetry, postcolonial, 456
decolonizing language, 463
development as a field,
in the Caribbean, 458
in the United States,
on an American syllabus, 460
the canon and, 458
postcolonial
limits of the term, 457
postcolonial studies
disability and, ,
allegorical readings of disability,
English studies and, 241
impact on national canons, 392
in Australia, 97
in Ireland, 56
in the Anglophone academy, 405
in the United States, 458
limits in Africa, 501
limits of, 445
problematic of the “postcolonial,”
postcolonialism, 4
and national literatures in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, 96
impact on English curriculum, 421
Marxism and, 186
Marxist critique of, 193
Prasad, Chandrabhan
on caste and English language, 243
prizes, literary
literary value and, 446
Queens University of Ireland, 47
race. See Blackness; negritude
in British lyric poetry, , 443
in British poetry, 455
in medieval art, 358
in medieval Europe,
in medieval romance,
racial justice, 9
Ramazani, Jahan
homogenizing effects of postcolonial reading, 445
identification of postcolonial poetry,
on Black British poetry, 445
Rambaran-Olm, Mary
decentering Eurocentric narratives, 159
Ranasinha, Ruvani, 456
reparations
for slavery, 389
Rhodes Must Fall, , 23, 31, 151, 333, 389, 489
recontextualizing histories in shared spaces, 155
significance of statue,
traces of colonialism and apartheid,
transformation of higher education, 502
Rhodes, Cecil. See Rhodes Must Fall
Mzilikazi and, 492
Nelson Mandela and, 492
significance of statue,
traces of colonialism and apartheid,
Richard Coer de Lyon
cannibalism as colonial aggression,
Rivera, Lisa
on chicanx cyberpunk, 378
Roman van Moriaen, 358
romance, medieval, ; see Richard Coer de Lyon; The King of Tars; Parzival; Roman van Moriaen; King of Moorland
on decolonial syllabi, 357
Romanticism. See Bigger 6 Collective, the
colonial concerns, 395
heterogeneous Britain, 391
poetry inspired by travel narratives, 399
remapping the canon,
travel writing in a decolonized curriculum,
Royal Ontario Museum
Into the Heart of Africa, 334
Rushdie, Salman
Midnight’s Children
disability in, 301
Russia
literary influence on South Africa, 432
Rutgers University
teaching Victorian studies, 404
Saro-Wiwa, Ken, 242
Scarry, Elaine
on Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, 137
Scotland, 386
benefits from empire, 390
independence movement, 390
legacy of slavery, 387
Romanticism, 391
teaching language and literature, 391
Scott, Kim, 91
Scott, Walter, 396
script, 243
Sembène, Ousmana
Xala
depiction of decolonization,
semiotic field
of colonialism, 490
Senegal
depiction in film, 284
settler colonialism
as ongoing practice, 96
English written word, 64
in Aotearoa New Zealand, 85
in Canada, 67
in the Americas, 460
in the Vinland Sagas, 359
language extinction, 65
misogyny and, 85
national education systems, 46
Shakespeare, William, 274
adaptations of Henry IV, Part I,
adaptations of Romeo and Juliet,
colonial modernity and, 371
in the British Empire, 493
Shastri, Lalbihari
I Even Regret Night
translation as historical recovery,
Shelley, Mary, 396
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Ozymandias, 399
Shilliam, Robbie
educational maltreatment, 132
sign language, 306
Singapore. See Singapore Bicentennial; Lee Kuan Yew
colonial legacy in, 169
literature, , 182
national imaginary, ,
representing colonial history, 172
Singapore Bicentennial, 169
commemorating colonialism,
legacy of colonialism, 172
state storytelling, 171
Sinha, Indra
Animals’ People
disability and global capitalism, 312
slavery, 386
Christianity and, 316
in medieval Europe, 353
reading and liberation, 316
reparations for, 389
transatlantic slave trade, 429
Smith, Zadie, 129, ,
“Sentimental Education”
unexamined privilege, 142
at Cambridge University, 138
decolonization and counterhegemonic spaces of education, 141
dis-ordered writing and decolonizing potential, 130
fetishization of Black women writers, 129
NW, 135
On Beauty, 136
Black meritocracy,
Black Studies, 139
distributive justice, 137
interpersonal connection, 137
the limits of progressive racial politics,
problematizing Blackness, 129
social sciences
queer methods, 120
sound
in African literature, 224
South Africa
African languages departments in, 497
apartheid, 188
impact on African languages teaching, 497
racial capitalism, 189
remembered by Rhodes statue, 492
spatial legacy, 492
comparison with nineteenth-century Russia, 432
literature, 189
Marxism and Black Consciousness,
South Asia
writers in the romantic period, 394
Southey, Robert
in decolonial teaching, 395
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
“Can the Subaltern Speak?”
subaltern subjectivity, 191
imperialism and Englishness, 405
Srinivasan, Ragini Tharoor
challenging singular narration, 172
Subaltern Studies Group, 188, ; see Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
in Victorian studies, 405
Marxism and,
Suleri, Sara, 396
territorial sovereignty, 29
English literature and, 66
in Aotearoa New Zealand, 89
in Canada, 63
literary education and, 68
The Psychology of Mau Mau, 339
tokenism
in literary syllabi, 496
Torabully, Khal
coolitude, 429
translation
as English literary history, 247
as historical recovery,
between First Nations languages and English, 98
in world literary studies, 425
of canonical texts as decolonial act,
postcolonial poetry and,
role in decolonial pedagogy, 363
translation studies, 246
travel writing
as colonial knowledge, 397
challenges for teaching, 399
heteroglossic qualities, 397
in a decolonized romantic curriculum,
in romantic poetry, 399
racialized representation, 334
Tropicopolitans, 393
United Kingdom. See Black British Literature
A-levels
poets of color on the syllabus, 441
global empire in education, 387
history of English department in, 388
legacy of slavery, 386
teaching a poetic tradition,
teaching Black British poetry,
United States,
postcolonial poetry in,
postcolonial studies in, 458
racial injustice, 256
teaching literature in, 257
Victorian studies and,
universal, the
colonial forms and, 294
University College Dublin, 47
Unnuth, Abhimanyu
Lal Pasina
multilingualism in, 433
van Neerven, Ellen
Australian Indigenous sovereignty, 87
Venuti, Lawrence
translation as political act, 498
Victorian studies, 404, 414
British Empire and,
history of the field,
in the United States, , 415
shaped by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 413
Victorian Studies
Victorianism
anticolonial thought and, 407
violence
colonialism as slow violence, 491
Viswanathan, Gauri, , 241
Warwick Research Collective, 187,
Combined and Uneven Development, 193
single capitalist history, 195
supplanting colonial binaries, 194
world-literature, 193
Wedderburn, Robert
comparison with Olaudah Equiano, 394
West Africa, 294
West Indian Readers, 474
Wevers, Lydia, 83
Wheatley, Phyllis, 394
Whiteness, 127, 142
Christianity and, 358
decolonizing Whiteness, 89
in the romantic curriculum, 392
institutional, 32
of Victorian canon, 405
Williams, Eric
critique of colonial historiography in the Caribbean, 410
Witwatersrand, University of the
African Literature department at,
impact of, 501
cultural studies at, 501
womanhood
erasure of, 338
World Literature, 36, 96, 116, 365, 420; see Norton Anthology of World Literature
anthologies and, 152
colonial genealogies, 424
contemporary revival, 420
decolonial approach, 421
defining literariness, 161
effects of anthologization, 161
globalization and, 422
importance of nation,
in South African English departments, 499
in the English curriculum, 424
literary cartographies, 426
spatial scale, 426
world-literature, 194
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