Dirk Goettsche publishes first handbook on postcolonial literary studies

Congratulations to Dirk Göttsche, who is lead editor (with Axel Dunker, Bremen, and Gabriele Dürbeck, Vechta) of the comprehensive German-language companion to postcolonial literary studies, Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur, newly out with Metzler. It contains 84 chapters by 55 authors covering all European language areas, their colonial and postcolonial histories, and the development of postcolonial theory and methodology across the arts and humanities (English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Scandinavian, Dutch, Italian, Baltic and others). The four parts of this milestone in comparative literature cover postcolonial theory and its international reception, key concepts in postcolonial studies and their development, the relevant literary histories in the European languages (and beyond), overviews of (post-)colonial histories, and an extensive bibliography including media and internet sources.