(Post)Colonial Passages. Incursions and Excursions across the Literatures and Cultures in English

While entailing a subversive re-vision of colonial histories, geographies, and subjectivities, the (post)colonial conditon has unleashed a chian of movements, relocations, and re-writings that interrogate the globalized and neoliberal society. Ethnic, "racial", religious, gendered, and sexual identities have been called into question, and requested to (re)define, name and re-name thmselves, to find new ways to tell their stories/histories. The very term "postcolonial" has triggered well-known controversial debates: its adoption is significant of a cultural politics involving the colonial past, controversial crisis in the present, and an open perspective toward alternative futures. Confronting literature and the arts from a postcolonial perspective is a critical task involving theories and cultural productions crossing barriers amongst fields of knowledge. The essays gathered in the volume discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse yet interrelated cultural fields.