Postcolonial Literature in the New Millennium: Philosophy, Politics, and Aesthetics features 16 essays written by scholars who explore the multivalent offshoot of postcolonial literature in the first quarter of the 21st century. The texts and contexts taken up in different essays engage with the contemporary realities of countries and regions that were once a part of the Commonwealth and have now evolved as independent national, political, and cultural entities while resisting colonialism and reconstructing new identities at the same time. If deliberations on nation, home, displacement, and migration represent the consciousness of communities inflicted with a sense of loss and trauma, the advent of health humanities, graphic novels, cinema, and digital humanities intersect with the advancement on the wave of modernity. Since the progress of such societies is concomitant with the rise of discourses from the margin, there are essays on the subtle nuances of Dalit, gender, and tribal identities. Environmental crises along with pandemics, an inevitable outcome of the technology-driven progress, and their impact on indigenous communities have been the core concern of some essayists, while a few have speculated about eco-futurism and post-humanism. This anthology of critical writings with its kaleidoscopic range encompassing recent scholarships will be quite handy for academicians and researchers interested in this area.

Edited by Professor Lata Dubey and Professor Ashish Kumar Pathak, Postcolonial Literature in the New Millennium: Philosophy, Politics and Aesthetics is an exceptionally wide-ranging collection of essays that changes the parameters of what "commonwealth literature" is, or is thought to be. It is an exciting cross section of contemporary essays which bridge the gap between the theoretical and the literary, between East and West, and between nations, tribes, ethnic groups, and literatures. No other book provides such a wealth of primary and secondary source, bibliographic material, and such a diversity of approaches. Bearing on the topic of philosophy, politics, aesthetics, this book is definitely an important contribution to the studies of postcolonial literatures, commonwealth literatures, new literatures, diaspora literatures, gender literatures, environmental literatures, pandemic literatures, and digital humanities, all in the plural form.
-Tsu-Chung Su, Professor, Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University