General introduction / Janet Wilson, Cristina Sandru and Sarah Lawson Welsh -- Sect. 1. Theoretical reroutings : cosmopolitanism, transnationality and the neo-liberal subject -- 1. Introduction / Janet Wilson -- 2. Between roots and routes : cosmopolitanism and the claims of locality / Simon Gikandi -- 3. Cosmopolitan criticism / Robert Spencer -- 4. 'The new bilingualism' : cosmopolitanism in the era of Esperanto / Kaori Nagai -- 5. Globalization's Robinsonade : Cast Away and neo-liberal subject formation / Victor Li -- 6. Transnation / Bill Ashcroft -- 7. 'Outlines of a better world' : rerouting postcolonialism / Patrick Williams -- Sect. 2. Remapping the postcolonial : globalism, localism and diasporas -- 8. Introduction / Cristina Sandru -- 9. Cracking imaginaries : studying the global from Canadian space / Diana Brydon -- 10. 'Here is where I am' : rerooting diasporic experience in Leila Aboulela's recent novels / Anna Ball -- 11. Rerouting diaspora theory with Canadian refugee fiction / Erin Goheen Glanville -- 12. Ma Jian's Red Dust : global China and the travelling-self / Jeffrey Mather -- 13. Cosmopolitan provincialism in a comparative perspective / Dorota Kolodziejczyk -- Sect. 3. Literary reroutings : ethics, aesthetics and the postcolonial canon -- 14. Introduction / Sarah Lawson Welsh -- 15. A postcolonial aesthetic : repeating upon the present / Elleke Boehmer -- 16. Rerouting commitment in the post-apartheid canon : TRC narratives and the problem of truth / Jane Poyner -- 17. From exceptionalism to social ecology in Southern Africa : isolation, intimacy and environment in Nadine Gordimer's Get a Life (2005) / James Graham -- 18. Un-American exceptionalism in the disciplinary field : from unmeltable ethnics to flexible citizens / Dedorah L. Madsen -- 19. Rerouting the postcolonial canon through linguistic remapping : why remap? / Nirmala Menon -- 20. At the intersection of queer and postcolonial discourses : rerouting the queer with Jean Senac and Jean Genet / Nadia Louar.
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