The essays in this volume present new scholarship on imperial expansion through colonization and globalization from a variety of postcolonial perspectives. Most of the articles are grounded in literary works. National identities and imageries are scrutinized, deconstructing the modernist and utopian idea of a nation as a site of homogeneity, and reviewing the importance of the changing concept of identity in the different phases of decolonization.

Edited by Silvia Nagy-Zekmi and Chantal Zabus - Contributions by Aishwarya Lakhsmi; Chantal Zabus; Deepa Jani; ...

Chapter 1 The Language of Imperial Expansion Pg. vii Part 2 I. Neo-Imperial Traces or Premonitions in Modernity Chapter 3 Empire, the Question of Representation and the Erasure of Inhabitancy Chapter 4 Contemporary Hollywood and the Persistence of the Empire: Nostalgia and Post-Imperial Voyeurism in Hallmark's King Solomon's Mines Chapter 5 British Nostalgia for the Ottoman Past: The Legible Multiethnicity of Old Istanbul in the Works of Barbara Nadel and Jason Goodwin Chapter 6 Utopian Fiction and Imperial Homogeneity: The Case of William Morris's News from Nowhere and Yussuf Sybaai's The Land of Hypocrisy Part 7 II. Interference of the Imperial Tradition in Asia Chapter 8 Colonizing the Mind: Education and Literacy in Colonial India Chapter 9 Re-presenting the Empire: the Picturesque Aesthetic in 69Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players Chapter 10 Deconstructing the Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy: Arundhati Roy's Political Essays Chapter 11 Nuclear Imperialism: The United States and Micronesia Part 12 III. Reformulations of the Imperial Project Chapter 13 The Nemesis of Empire as Mimesis Chapter 14 Empire, Allegorical Imperative, and Games of Truth: J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians Chapter 15 "Child-Emporererer (Vacncy)": Apprehending U.S. Empire through Robert Fitterman's Metropolis Chapter 16 The "Armageddon Election" and the Antichrist Debates Chapter 17 Imperialism is on the March: Market Tyranny and the Fight Beyond Revolution