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 called the market and the practice and positionality of postcolonial critics and their field postcolonial studies.

Caroline Koegler is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Muenster, Germany. Holding degrees in both Literary and Cultural Studies and Business Management, she has published on refugees and the politics of performing the urban, Caribbean literature, queer sexualities/positionalities, Judith Butler, postcolonial intertextuality, the financial crisis, and the market and ideology in Postcolonial Studies (forthcoming). She is co-editor of Locating African European Studies: Interventions-Intersections-conversations (forthcoming).