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Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination
Av Stephanos Stephanides, Stavros Karayanni
Inbunden, 2015
1315 kr
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This collection addresses broad questions of ethics and aesthetics in the framework of vernacular cosmopolitanism. With a common anthropological focus, the essays map literary and artistic practices involving cross-cultural transactions shaped by social forces, institutions, and the multiple …
Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage
Making and Unmaking the Postcolonial Novel
Inbunden, 2015
2286 kr
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Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage examines key developments in the field of the Australian postcolonial historical novel from 1989 to the present. In parallel with this analysis, A. Frances Johnson undertakes a unique study of in-kind creativity, reflecting on how her own nascent historical …
Contested Communities
Communication, Narration, Imagination
Inbunden, 2017
2172 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume investigates community in postcolonial language situations, texts, and media. In actual and imagined communities, membership assumes shared features – values, linguistic codes, geographical origin, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, professional interests and …
Cross-Cultural Legacy
Critical and Creative Writings in Memory of Hena Maes-Jelinek
Av Gordon Collier, Geoffrey V. Davis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2843 kr
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This volume pays tribute to the formidable legacy of Hena Maes–Jelinek (1929–2008), a pioneering postcolonial scholar who was a professor at the University of Liège, in Belgium. Along with a few moving and affectionate pieces retracing the life and career of this remarkable and deeply human …
Atlantic Crossing in the Wake of Frederick Douglass
Archaeology, Literature, and Spatial Culture
Av Mark Leone
Inbunden, 2017
1787 kr
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Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass takes its bearings from the Maryland-born former slave Frederick Douglass’s 1845 sojourn in Ireland and Britain—a voyage that is understood in editors Mark P. Leone and Lee M. Jenkins’ collection as paradigmatic of the crossings between American, …
Black South African Autobiography After Deleuze
Belonging and Becoming in Self-Testimony
Inbunden, 2017
2115 kr
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In Black South African Autobiography After Deleuze: Belonging and Becoming in Self-Testimony, Kgomotso Michael Masemola uses Gilles Deleuze’s theories of immanence and deterritorialization to explore South African autobiography as both the site and the limit of intertextual cultural memory. …
Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds
Toward Revised Histories
Av Diana Brydon, Peter Forsgren m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2429 kr
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Brydon, Forsgren, and Fur’s Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds demonstrates the value of reading for concurrences in situating discussions of archives, voices, and history in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Starting with the premise that our pluriversal world is constructed from …
Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction
Inbunden, 2017
2629 kr
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Uncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction engages urgently with wealth, testing current assumptions of inequality in order to push beyond reductive contemporary readings of the gaping abyss between rich and poor. Shifting away from longstanding debates in postcolonial criticism focused on poverty …
Literary Location and Dislocation of Myth in the Post/Colonial Anglophone World
Av André, Dodeman
Inbunden, 2017
2529 kr
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The English-speaking world today is so diverse that readers need a gateway to its many postcolonial narratives and art forms. This collection of essays examines this diversity and what brings so many different cultures together. Whether Indian, Canadian, Australasian or Zimbabwean, the stories …
Postcolonial Past & Present
Negotiating Literary and Cultural Geographies
Inbunden, 2018
2872 kr
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In Postcolonial Past & Present twelve outstanding scholars of literature, history and visual arts look to those spaces Epeli Hau’ofa has insisted are full not empty, asking what it might mean to Indigenise culture. A new cultural politics demands new forms of making and interpretation that rethink …
Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean Literature
Metaphor, Myth, Memory
Av Leo Courbot
Inbunden, 2019
2286 kr
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With Fred D'Aguiar and Caribbean Literature: Metaphor, Myth, Memory, Leo Courbot offers the first research monograph entirely dedicated to a comprehensive reading of the verse and prose works of Fred D'Aguiar, prized American author of Anglo-Guyanese origin.“Postcolonial” criticism, when related to …
Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices
Inbunden, 2019
2028 kr
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Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices critically examines a longstanding colonial fascination with the black female body as an object of sexual desire, envy, and anxiety. Since the 2002 repatriation of the remains of Sara Baartman to post-apartheid South Africa, the interest in …
Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts
Inbunden, 2020
1938 kr
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Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts reflects that critiques of ideological formations occur within intersecting social, political, and cultural configurations where each position is in itself ‘ideological’ – and subject to asymmetrical power relations. Postcolonialism has become an object …
Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change
Inbunden, 2022
2272 kr
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Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change investigates the evolving nature of postcolonial literary criticism in response to global, regional, and local environmental transformations brought about by climate change. It builds upon, and extends, previous studies in postcolonial ecocriticism to …
Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community
Häftad, 2022
944 kr
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In Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community, Raphaël Lambert explores the notion of community in conjunction with literary works concerned with the transatlantic slave trade. The recent surge of interest in both slave trade and community studies concurs with the return of free-market …
Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices
Häftad, 2022
944 kr
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Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices critically examines a longstanding colonial fascination with the black female body as an object of sexual desire, envy, and anxiety. Since the 2002 repatriation of the remains of Sara Baartman to post-apartheid South Africa, the interest in …
Caryl Phillips’s Genealogies
Inbunden, 2023
1609 kr
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Thematically and structurally, the work of the Kittitian-British writer Caryl Phillips reimagines the notion of genealogy. Phillips’s fiction, drama, and non-fiction foreground broken filiations and forever-deferred promises of new affiliations in the aftermath of slavery and colonization. His …
ReFiguring Global Challenges
Literary and Cinematic Explorations of War, Inequality, and Migration
Inbunden, 2023
1501 kr
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An important task for scholars of cultural studies and the humanities, as well as for artistic creators, is to refigure the frames and concepts by which the world as we know it is kept in place. Without these acts of refiguration, the future could only ever be more of the (violent) same. In close …
Culinary Discourses in Asian-Australian Writing
Masticating Multiculturalism
Inbunden, 2025
1895 kr
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Won the Doireann MacDermott Cultural Studies in English AwardBesides nourishing us, food can be used metaphorically to help us understand the complex and abstract concepts through which we negotiate our position in the world: we talk about digesting ideas, ruminating on a problem, or swallowing an …
Shifting Horizons and Crossing Borders
Thinking with Stephanos Stephanides
Inbunden, 2024
1707 kr
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The book captures key moments in the critical and creative dialogue of literary scholars, poets and artists with poet, author, documentary film-maker and literary scholar Stephanos Stephanides. Employing a polyphonic and cross-disciplinary perspective, the twenty-three essays and creative pieces …
Indigeneity on the Oceanic Stage
Intimations of the Local in a Globalised World
Inbunden, 2024
2385 kr
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This volume examines how Indigenous theatre and performance from Oceania has responded to the intensification of globalisation from the turn of the 20th to the 21st centuries. It foregrounds a relational approach to the study of Indigenous texts, thus echoing what scholars such as Tui Nicola Clery …
Coterminous Worlds
Magical realism and contemporary post-colonial literature in English
Häftad, 1999
773 kr
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The present collection of essays endeavours to furnish informed responses to central questions posed by the editors: Is the fact that the marvellous coexists with the factual and never resolves itself into the supernatural an indication that the whole literary project of 'magical realism' is an …
African Diasporas in the New and Old Worlds
Consciousness and Imagination
Häftad, 2004
844 kr
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In the humanities, the term ‘diaspora’ recently emerged as a promising and powerful heuristic concept. It challenged traditional ways of thinking and invited reconsiderations of theoretical assumptions about the unfolding of cross-cultural and multi-ethnic societies, about power relations, …
Circle & the Spiral
A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Māori Literature
Häftad, 2004
1016 kr
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In Aboriginal and Māori literature, the circle and the spiral are the symbolic metaphors for a never-ending journey of discovery and rediscovery. The journey itself, with its indigenous perspectives and sense of orientation, is the most significant act of cultural recuperation. The present study …
Translating Kali's Feast
The Goddess in Indo-Caribbean Ritual and Fiction
Inbunden, 2000
1515 kr
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Translating Kali's Feast is an interdisciplinary study of the Goddess Kali bringing together ethnography and literature within the theoretical framework of translation studies. The idea for the book grew out of the experience and fieldwork of the authors, who lived with Indo-Caribbean devotees of …
Telling Stories
Postcolonial Short Fiction in English
Inbunden, 2001
2978 kr
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The present volume is a highly comprehensive assessment of the postcolonial short story since the thirty-six contributions cover most geographical areas concerned. Another important feature is that it deals not only with exclusive practitioners of the genre (Mansfield, Munro), but also with …
Decolonizing the Lens of Power
Indigenous Films in North America
Inbunden, 2008
3052 kr
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This is the first book that comprehensively examines Indigenous filmmaking in North America, as it analyzes in detail a variety of representative films by Canadian and US-American Indigenous filmmakers: two films that contextualize the oral tradition, three short films, and four dramatic films. The …
Caribbean Writer as Warrior of the Imaginary / L’Ecrivain caribéen, guerrier de l’imaginaire
Inbunden, 2008
2894 kr
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This bilingual collection illustrates the concept of the ‘Warrior of the Imaginary’, as defined by Patrick Chamoiseau, in a multi-faceted corpus of texts. Francophone contributions explore the role of the Caribbean writer in works by Chamoiseau, Édouard Glissant, Daniel Maximin, and Joseph Zobel. …
Memory and Myth
Postcolonial Religion in Contemporary Guyanese Fiction and Poetry
Inbunden, 2009
1501 kr
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This book investigates the problematical historical location of the term ‘religion’ and examines how this location has affected the analytical reading of postcolonial fiction and poetry. The adoption of the term ‘religion’ outside of a Western Enlightenment and Christian context should therefore be …
Changing Face of African Literature / Les nouveaux visages de la littérature africaine
Inbunden, 2009
1441 kr
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The Changing Face of African Literature combines both the large picture – a synopsis of current trends in African literature – and the small: studies of individual texts and of themes across several texts. The large and the small are linked by recurring themes, such as gender and sexuality, the …
