The Postcolonial World

Introduction, Jyotsna G. Singh

Part 1: Affective, Postcolonial Histories

1. On Postcolonial Happiness, Ananya Jahanara Kabir

2. On Not Closing the Loop: Empathy, Ethics, and Transcultural Witnessing, Stef Craps

3. Affective Histories and Partition Narratives in Postcolonial South Asia: Qurratulain Hyder's Sita Betrayed, Rituparna Mitra

4. The Unsettled Space of Interlocking Kurdish-Jewish Identities in Samir Naqqash's Shlomo Alkurdi, Myself and Time (2004), Amel Mahmoud

Part 2: Postcolonial Desires

5. Queers In-between: Globalizing Sexualities, Local Resistances, Abdulhamit Arvas

6. From Morality to Desire: The Role of the Westernized Woman in Post-Independence Pakistani Cinema, Sadaf Ahmad

7. Queer Camouflage as Survival, Presence, and Expressive Capital in the Postcolonial Artwork of Kiam Marcelo Junio, Jan Bernabe

8. Fictive Identities on a Diasporic Ethnic Stage: A "Modern Girl" Consumed in Dominican Beauty Pageants, Danny Mendez

Part 3: Religious Imaginings

9. "Postcolonial Remains": Critical Religion, Postcolonial Theory, and Deconstructing the Secular-Religious Binary, Timothy Fitzgerald

10. Gods in a Democracy: State of Nature, Postcolonial Politics, and Bengali Mangalkabyas, Milinda Banerjee

11. Imagining the "Muslim" Woman: Religious Movements and Constructions of Gender in the Subcontinent, Meryem Zaman

Part 4: Postcolonial Geographies and Spatial Practices

12. Re-Presenting Postcolonial Zanzibar in Contested Literary, Cultural, and Political Geographies, Garth Myers

13. Transcolonial Cartographies: Kateb Yacine and Mohamed Rouabhi Stage Palestine in France-Algeria, Olivia Harrison

14. Virtual Encounters in Postcolonial Spaces: Nollywood Movies about Mobile Telephony,