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Caroline Koegler, Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Marlena Tronicke, eds.:

Writing Brexit (London Routledge, 2021)

Drawing from a rich corpus of British cultural production and postcolonial theory, this book positions Brexit in the historical nexus of colonialism, colonial nostalgia, and the rise of narcissistic nationalism in contemporary Europe.

  

Ruth Achenbach, Jan Beek, John Njenga Karugia, Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel & Frank Schulze-Engler, eds.:

Afrasian Transformations (Brill, 2020)

African-Asian interactions contribute to the emergence of a decentred, multi-polar world in which different actors need to redefine themselves and their relations to each other. Afrasian Transformations explores these changes to map out several arenas where these transformations have already produced startling results: development politics, South-South cooperation, cultural memory, mobile lifeworlds and transcultural connectivity.
   
 

Lutz Diegner & Frank Schulze-Engler, eds.:

Habari ya English? What about Kiswahili? East Africa as a Literary and Linguistic Contact Zone (Brill, 2015)

 
This wide-ranging collection deals with the dynamics of current developments in literature, language, and culture in Kenya and Tanzania. It promotes transdisciplinary dialogue among anglophone and Swahili studies, literary studies and linguistics, East African and German academic discourse, Kenyan and Tanzanian perspectives.

  

Pavan Kumar Malreddy:

Orientalism, terrorism, Indigenism: South Asian Readings in Postcolonialism (Sage, 2015)

 
The book examines the uses of postcolonial theory in understanding the structural transformations enabled by post-9/11 discourses of Orientalism and terrorism; the internal contradictions between South Asian approaches to postcolonialism and its European adaptations; and the resistance produced by the indigenization of local literary traditions in the work of select South Asian literary figures.

2021

Malreddy, Pavan: (co-edited with Caroline Koegler and Marlena Tronicke) Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains: London Routledge (reissue of the special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56/ 5).

--- ‘Biography and Autobiography’. In Florian Stadtler (ed.) Salman Rushdie in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, fc.

--- ‘In a State of Indifference: A Conversation with Amit Chaudhuri’. Chandani Lokuge and Chris Ringrose (eds.) Creative Lives. Ibidem/ Columbia University Press, 56-73.

--- ‘Nomadic Thinking: Tabish Khair in Conversation’. Chandani Lokuge and Chris Ringrose (eds.) Creative Lives. Ibidem/Columbia University Press, 154-170.

--- ‘Postsecular Longings? Religious Dissent, Faith, and Gurus in Indian Cinema’. Third Text 35 (5), in print.

--- 'The Syntax of Everyday Injustice: A Conversation with Arundhati Roy'. Special issue 'Crisis and Recovery’. Wasafrifi 107, 41-49, in print.

2020

Malreddy, Pavan: (co-edited with Caroline Koegler and Marlena Tronicke) Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains. Special Issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56 (5).

--- (lead editor, with Anindya Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann) Populism in the Postcolony: Literature, Art and Media. Special Issue of Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 5 (2).

--- (co-edited with Michael C. Frank) Narratives of the War on Terror: Global Perspectives. London: Routledge (reissue of Global Responses to the War on Terror).

--- ‘An Insectual Perspective: Text, Theory and Politics in Tom McCarthy’s Fiction – A Conversation’. Textual Practise. doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2020.1847903

--- (with Caroline Koegler and Marlene Tronicke) ‘The Colonial Remains of Brexit: Empire Nostalgia and Narcissistic Nationalism’. In: Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Caroline Koegler and Marlene Tronicke (eds.) Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains. Special Issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56 (5): 585-592. doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2020.1818440

--- ‘Subalternation: Narrating Burma’. In: Ole Birk Laursen, Enrique Alvarez and Maria Ridda (eds.) Subverting the State. Special Issue of Postcolonial Studies 23 (2):210-225. doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2020.1751912

--- (with Anindya Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann) ‘Discoursing Populism: Types, Typologies and Contexts’. In Pavan Malreddy, Anindya Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann (eds.) Populism in the Postcolony  special issue of Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 5(1): 1-8S. http://www.kairostext.in/index.php/kairostext/article/view/105

--- ‘The Late Style of Ngũgĩ waThiongo’. In: Ruth Achenbach, Jan Beek, John Njenga Karugia, Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel and Frank Schulze-Engler (eds.) Afrasian Transformations: Transregional Perspectives on Development Cooperation, Social Mobility and Cultural Change. Leiden: Brill, 320-334. doi.org/10.1163/9789004425262_017

--- The Idea of India: Pedagogical Perspectives’. In: Daniel Schönbauer (ed.) Postcolonial Indian Experiences: Teaching Faces of a Rising Nations. Baden-Baden: Tectum., 9-23. doi.org/10.5771/9783828872059-19

Schulze-Engler, Frank: [with Ruth Achenbach, Jan Beek, John Njenga Karugia, Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel] Afrasian Transformations: Transregional Perspectives on Development Coopera­tion, Social Mobility and Cultural Change. Leiden: Brill, 2020

--- [with Ruth Achenbach, Jan Beek, John Njenga Karugia and Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel] “Afrasian Transformations: An Introduction”, in:Ruth Achenbach, Jan Beek, John Njenga Karugia, Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel and Frank Schulze-Engler (eds.) Afrasian Transformations: Transregional Perspectives on Development Cooperation, Social Mobility and Cultural Change (Leiden: Brill, 2020): 1-17.

2019

Malreddy, Pavan: (co-edited with Anindya Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann) Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives (dual edition). Oxon; New Delhi: Routledge.

--- ‘Imperialist Shame and Indigenous Guilt in George Orwell’s Burmese Days’. In: Katrin Röder and Christine Vogt-William (eds.) Shame and Shamelessness in Anglophone Literature and Media. Special Issue of European Journal of English Studies 20 (3): 311-325. doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2019.1655249

--- (with Anindya Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann) ‘Introduction: Genealogies of Violence in South Asia. In: Pavan Malreddy, Anindya Purakayastha and Birte Heidemann (eds.) Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives. Oxon; New York: Routledge, 1-20. doi.org/10.4324/9780429316845

--- ‘After-Literature: The End of the Story and the Birth of the Narrative’. In: Maria Fleischhack, Stefan Welz and Jürgen Ronthaler (eds.) Das Leben und die Seltsamen Abenteuer des Elmar Schenkel, aus Soest, Professor. Nicht von ihm Selbst Verfasst. Leipzig: Edition Hamouda, 258-265.

--- ‘The Novel of Myanmar’. In: Alex Tickell (ed). The Oxford History of the Novel in English (vol. 10). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 351-364.

Schulze-Engler, Frank: “More Than Theory? Notes on Ranjan Ghosh’s Poetic Epistemology”, p. 136-142 in: Rob Wilson, Sandeep Banerjee, Frank Schulze-Engler, Zahi Zalloua, Ming Xie and Ranjan Ghosh, „More than Global? A Roundtable Discussion“, New Global Studies, 13.1 (2019), 125-158.

--- “Erkundungen einer dezentrierten Moderne: Transnationalität und Transkulturalität in anglofonen Literaturen”, in: Doerte Bischoff, Susanne Komfort-Hein (Hrg), Handbuch Literatur und Transnationalität (Berlin: de Gruyter 2019): 366-383.

--- “Entangled Solidarities: African-Asian Writers’ Organizations, Anti-Colonial Rhetorics and Afrasian Imaginaries in East African Literature”, in: Ross Anthony and Uta Ruppert (eds.), Reconfiguring Transregionalization in the Global South: African Asian Encounters (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019): 117-139.

2018

Malreddy, Pavan: (co-edited with Michael C. Frank) Global Responses to the War on Terror. Special Issue of European Journal English Studies 22 (2).

--- co-edited with Anindya Purakayastha) Cultures of Violence in South Asia. Special Issue of Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 2 (1).

--- (with Michael C. Frank) ‘Global Responses to the War on Terror’. European Journal of English Studies 22 (2): 92-102. doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2018.1478253 Listed among top 3 downloaded articles since 2019.

--- (with Anindya Purkayastha) ‘Cultures of Violence and (a)himsaic Historiography: The Indian Subcontinent, A Million Mutinies Again?’ Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 2 (1): 3-15. http://www.kairostext.in/index.php/kairostext/article/view/35

--- (Review Essay) ‘The Transatlantic Novel and the War on Terror’. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 55 (1): 130-133. doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2017.1415655

--- (with Frank Schulze-Engler and John Njenga Karugia) ‘“Even the Dead Have Human Rights”: A Conversation with Homi Bhabha’. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 54 (5): 702-716. doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2018.1446682

--- (with Ashok Kumbamu) ‘Why are the Indian Authorities Afraid of a “Half-Maoist”’. Aljazeera. https://bit.ly/2PpqPfg

--- Review of Nirmala Menon’s Remapping the Indian Postcolonial Canon: Remap, Reimagine, Retranslate. Postcolonial Text 13 (3): 1-4.

Schulze-Engler, Frank: “Automobilität in der afrikanischen Literatur.” Susanne Scholz und Ulrike Vedder (Hg.), Handbuch Literatur & Materielle Kultur. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2018: 313-323.

--- [with Pavan Kumar Malreddy and John Njenga Karugia] “‘Even the dead have human rights’: A conversation with Homi K. Bhabha”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54.5 (2018): 702-716.

--- “When remembering back is not enough: Provincializing Europe in World War II Novels from India and New Zealand”, Memory Studies, 11.3 (2018), 315–327.

2017

Levihn-Kutzler, Karsten: “Precautionary Readings.” Rev. of Sylvia Mayer and Alexa Weik von Mossner, eds.: The Anticipation of Catastrophe and Molly Wallace: Risk Criticism. Ecozon@ 8(2), 217-221.

Malreddy, Pavan: Review of Nadia Butt’s Transcultural Memory and Globalised Modernity in Contemporary Indo-English Novels. Memory Studies 10(2): 235-238.

 ---  (with Ana Sobral) ‘Violent Worlds: Three Readings from the Global South.’ Anglistentag Proceedings. Trier: WVT: 245-256.

Schulze-Engler, Frank: “Poetic Justice? Christopher Okigbo, Dedan Kimathi and Robert Mugabe on Literary Trial.” Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein, Nicole Waller and Dirk Wiemann (eds.), Postcolonial Justice. Leiden: Brill, 2017: 95-111.

 ---  “Englischsprachige Literaturen.” Dirk Göttsche, Axel Dunker und Gabriele Dürbeck (Hg.), Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur.  Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017: 343-354.

2016

Malreddy, Pavan: “Terror, Nation and Violence in Bombay Cinema.” Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 1 (1): 1-27.         

 ---  “Solidarity, Suffering, and ‘Divine Violence’: Fictions of the Naxalite Insurgency.” In: Alex Tickell (ed.) South-Asian Fiction in English: Contemporary Transformations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 217-234. 

Schulze-Engler, Frank: “Global History, Indigenous Modernities Transcultural Memory: World War I and II in Native Canadian, Aboriginal Australian, and Maori Fiction.” Mita Banerjee (ed.), Comparative Indigenous Studies. Heidelberg: Winter, 2016: 383-423.

 ---  “Afrikas Fremde? Moyez G. Vassanjis afrasische Erinnerungslandschaften – Auf den Spuren alter und neuer Süd-Süd-Verbindungen.” Forschung Frankfurt, 33 (2): 73-77.

 --- “Indigenous Urbanities: Representations of Cities in Native Canadian, Aboriginal Australian, and Māori Literature.” Cecile Sandten and Annika Bauer (eds.), Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis. Leiden: Brill, 2016: 309-323.

2015

Malreddy, Pavan:  “Post-Orientalism and Post-Multiculturalism in Contemporary Britain: Literary and Cinematic Representations of the London Bombings”. Sebastian Berg and Jana Gohrisch (eds.) Postmulticultural Britain? Special Issue of Hard Times. German-English Journal/Deutsch-Englische Zeitschrift (96): 32-35.

 ---  “Labour, Pleasure and the Sublime: The ‘Work’ of the Dalitbahujans”. Pavan Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen and Janet Wilson (eds.) Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization: Labour, and Rights. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 134-149.

 ---  “Introduction: Reworking Postcolonialism”. Pavan Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen and Janet Wilson (eds.) Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization: Labour, and Rights. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-18.

 ---  Review of Burce King’s Rewriting India: Eight Writers. Journal of Poscolonial Writing 51 (2): 490-491.

 ---  Orientalism, Terrorism and Indigenism: South Asian Readings in Postcolonialism. Delhi/London: SAGE.

 ---  (lead editor, with Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen and Janet Wilson): Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization: Labour, and Rights. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Schulze-Engler, Frank: “Once Were Internationalists? Postcolonialism, Disenchanted Solidarity and the Right to Belong in a World of Globalized Modernity.” Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen, Janet Wilson (eds.), Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015: 19-35.

Schulze-Engler, Frank with Lutz Diegner: “Introduction: Habari ya Contact Zone? East African Literature Revisited.” Lutz Diegner and Frank Schulze-Engler (eds.), Habari ya English / What About Kiswahili? East Africa as a Literary and Linguistic Contact Zone. Matatu, 46. Leiden: Brill, 2015: 1-22.