Literature for Our Times

Literature for Our Times offers the widest range of essays on present and future directions in postcolonial studies ever gathered together in one volume. Demonstrating the capacity of different approaches and methodologies to ’live together’ in a spirit of ’convivial democracy’, these essays range widely across regions, genres, and theme

Bill Ashcroft is a founding theorist of postcolonial studies, co-author of The Empire Writes Back, and author of sixteen books and over 150 articles and chapters. Ranjini Mendis, a past Chair of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), co founded the digital open-access journal Postcolonial Text in 2003 with John Willinsky, and was its Managing Editor and Associate Editor till 2013. Julie McGonegal teaches English at Laurentian University at Georgian College. She is the author of Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Reconciliation. Arun Mukherjee teaches English at York University in Toronto. She recently translated the Marathi Dalit writer Sharankumar Limbale’s novel Hindu.