Critical Branding : Postcolonial Studies and the Market
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Merging concepts from business studies, postcolonial studies, queer studies, and literary and cultural studies in an informed way, Critical Branding: Postcolonial Studies and the Market sets on a thorough theoretical footing a range of categories which, while increasingly current, remain surprisingly obscure, such as the market, marketing, branding, and market forces. It provides new concepts with which to think of the market as a dimension of practice, such as brand narratives, brand acts, and brand politics. At a time when the marketization of the university system and the resulting effects on academics are much on our minds, Critical Branding is a timely contribution that explores how diversely postcolonial studies and the market intersect, for better and for worse.
Critical Branding: Postcolonial Studies and the Market
provides an original answer to what Sarah Brouillette has called postcolonial studies longstanding materialist challenge, illuminating the relationship between what is often broadly called the market and the practice and positionality of postcolonial critics and their field, postcolonial studies. After much attention has been paid to the status of literary writers in markets, and after a range of sweeping attacks against the field for its alleged complicity with capitalism, this study takes the crucial step of systematically exploring the engagement of postcolonial critics in market practice, substituting an automatic sense of accusation (Dirlik), dread (Westall; Brouillette), rage (Young; Williams), or irony (Huggan; Ponzanesi; Mendes) with a nuanced exploration and critique. Bringing together concepts from business studies, postcolonial studies, queer studies, and literary and cultural studies in an informed way, Critical Branding sets on a thorough theoretical footing a range of categories that, while increasingly current, remain surprisingly obscure, such as the market, market forces, and branding. It also provides new concepts with which to think the market as a dimension of practice, such as brand narratives, brand acts, and brand politics. At a time when the marketisation of the university system and the resulting effects on academics are much on our minds, Critical Brandingis a timely contribution that explores how diversely postcolonial studies and the market intersect, for better and for worse.
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