Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures Jana Gohrisch and Ellen Grünkemeier: Introduction: Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines Interdisciplinary Reflections Tim Watson: Postcolonial Studies and Atlantic Studies: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Slavery and Empire Jessica Hemmings: Postcolonial Textiles: Negotiating Dialogue Melanie Ulz: Masking the White Gaze: Towards a Postcolonial Art History of Masks Andrea Sand: From Bush Talk to Nation Language: Language Attitudes in Jamaica Before and After Independence Johannes Ismaiel–Wendt: Track Studies: Popular Music and Postcolonial Analysis Ellen Grünkemeier: Postcolonial Cultural Studies: Writing a Zulu Woman Back Into History Interdisciplinary Atlantic Studies Timo Müller: Postcolonial Pursuits in African American Studies: The Later Poems of Claude McKay Carl Plasa: “Mainly Storytelling and Play-Acting”: Theatricality and the Middle Passage in Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger Henning Marquardt: Negotiating Family Models in Jamaican Literature: Class, Race, and Religion Anja Bandau: Transatlantic Representations of the Revolution in Saint-Domingue at the End of the Eighteenth Century and the Haitian Turn Sarah Fekadu: Writing Off-Centre: Global Imagination and Modernism in the Short Fiction of Phyllis Shand Allfrey Jan Hüsgen: Emancipation and Protest: Moravian Mission and the Labour Strike in St Kitts Steffen Runkel: The Perspectives of African Elites on Slavery and Abolition on the Gold Coast (1860–1900): Newspapers as Sources Frank Schulze–Engler: Fragile Modernities: History and Historiography in Contemporary African Fiction Crossovers: Historiography, Fiction, Criticism Matthias Galler: Historiographic Indian English Fiction: Indira Gandhi’s Emergency Rule in Midnight’s Children, The Great Indian Novel, and A Fine Balance Cecile Sandten: Kaliyattam (The Play of God) by Jayaraj: Polymorphous and Postcolonial Poetics in an Indian Othello Adaptation Dennis Mischke: Othering Otherness: Stephen Muecke’s Fictocriticism and the Cosmopolitan Vision Postcolonial Studies in Research and Teaching Ursula Kluwick: The (Inter)Disciplinarity of Postcolonial Research Sabine Broeck: Lessons for A-Disciplinarity: Some Notes on What Happens to an Americanist When She Takes Slavery Seriously Janou Glencross: Postcolonial Studies as a Discipline: An External Perspective on Administrative Headaches Brigitte Reinwald: On the Challenge of De-Provincializing the University Classroom: Teaching African History from a Postcolonial Perspective Frank Schulze–Engler: Studying Anglophone Literatures and Cultures in a World of Globalized Modernity: Notes on the ‘Frankfurt Experience’ Elinor Jane Pohl: Postcolonial Readings in German Secondary Education Mala Panduran: Cross-Cultural Pedagogical Practices: Understanding the German Context Reinhold Wandel: Teaching India in the German EFL Classroom: Issues and Problems Notes on Contributors