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Involuntary Associations
Postcolonial Studies and World Englishes
Inbunden, 2014
864 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.The consequences of English’s spread have become increasingly clear to its diverse speakers. Sometimes associated with a standardization leading to homogenization, often also with …
States of Emergency
Colonialism, Literature and Law
Häftad, 2014
582 kr
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How can literature and culture from the postcolonial world help us to understand the relationship between law and violence associated with a state of emergency? And what light can legal narratives of emergency shed on postcolonial writing? States of Emergency: Colonialism, Literature and Law …
Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories
Av Lucy Evans
Inbunden, 2014
2388 kr
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This book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Caribbean short story writers following the genre's revival in the mid 1980s. The first extended study of Caribbean short stories, it presents the phenomenon of …
Combined and Uneven Development
Towards a New Theory of World-Literature
Av Sharae Deckard, Nicholas Lawrence m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2388 kr
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The ambition of this book is to resituate the problem of ‘world literature’, considered as a revived category of theoretical enquiry, by pursuing the literary-cultural implications of the theory of combined and uneven development. This theory has a long pedigree in the social sciences, where it …
Combined and Uneven Development
Towards a New Theory of World-Literature
Av Sharae Deckard, Nicholas Lawrence m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
582 kr
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The ambition of this book is to resituate the problem of ‘world literature’, considered as a revived category of theoretical enquiry, by pursuing the literary-cultural implications of the theory of combined and uneven development. This theory has a long pedigree in the social sciences, where it …
Caribbean
Aesthetics, World-Ecology, Politics
Av Chris Campbell, Michael Niblett
Inbunden, 2016
2388 kr
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Bringing together the work of literary critics, social scientists, activists, and creative writers, this edited collection explores the complex relationships between environmental change, political struggle, and cultural production in the Caribbean. It ranges across the archipelago, with essays …
Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies
Inbunden, 2016
649 kr
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Postcolonial studies has taken a significant turn since 2000 from the post-structural focus on language and identity of the 1980s and 1990s to more materialist and sociological approaches. A key theorist in inspiring this innovative new scholarship has been Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu and …
First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966
Contexts and legacies
Av David Murphy
Inbunden, 2016
2138 kr
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In April 1966, thousands of artists, musicians, performers and writers from across Africa and its diaspora gathered in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to take part in the First World Festival of Negro Arts (Premier Festival Mondial des arts nègres). The international forum provided by the Dakar …
Affective Disorders
Emotion in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
Av Bede Scott
Inbunden, 2019
477 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies, affect studies, and narratology, Affective Disorders explores the significance of emotion in a range of colonial and …
Black 1919
Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain
Häftad, 2019
560 kr
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The riots that broke out in various British port cities in 1919 were a dramatic manifestation of a wave of global unrest that affected Britain, parts of its empire, continental Europe and North America during and in the wake of the First World War. During the riots, crowds of white working-class …
Public Secrets
Race and Colour in Colonial and Independent Jamaica
Inbunden, 2019
2138 kr
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Informed by critical race theory and based on a wide range of sources, including official sources, memoirs, and anthropological studies, this book examines multiple forms of racial discrimination in Jamaica and how they were talked about and experienced from the end of the First World War until the …
Kinship Across the Black Atlantic
Writing Diasporic Relations
Av Gigi Adair
Inbunden, 2019
2388 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.This book considers the meaning of kinship across black Atlantic diasporas in the Caribbean, Western Europe and North America via readings of six contemporary novels. It draws …
Singing the Law
Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of Colonial Modernity in East African Literature
Av Peter Leman
Inbunden, 2020
2388 kr
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Singing the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear within the pages of written literatures during the colonial and postcolonial periods. In examining these cultures, this book begins with an analysis of the cultural narratives of …
Hangover after the Handover
Places, Things and Cultural Icons in Hong Kong
Inbunden, 2020
2076 kr
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As a former British colony (1842–1997) and then a Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong has witnessed at all times how relations are formed, dissolved and refashioned amidst changing powers, identities and narratives, given the many names it possessed over the course of history, from ‘Barren …
Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies
Häftad, 2021
625 kr
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Postcolonial studies has taken a significant turn since 2000 from the post-structural focus on language and identity of the 1980s and 1990s to more materialist and sociological approaches. A key theorist in inspiring this innovative new scholarship has been Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu and …
Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories
Av Lucy Evans
Häftad, 2021
625 kr
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This book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Caribbean short story writers following the genre's revival in the mid 1980s. The first extended study of Caribbean short stories, it presents the phenomenon of …
The Caribbean
Aesthetics, World-Ecology, Politics
Av Chris Campbell, Michael Niblett
Häftad, 2021
625 kr
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Bringing together the work of literary critics, social scientists, activists, and creative writers, this edited collection explores the complex relationships between environmental change, political struggle, and cultural production in the Caribbean. It ranges across the archipelago, with essays …
The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966
Contexts and legacies
Av David Murphy
Häftad, 2021
560 kr
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In April 1966, thousands of artists, musicians, performers and writers from across Africa and its diaspora gathered in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to take part in the First World Festival of Negro Arts (Premier Festival Mondial des arts nègres). The international forum provided by the Dakar …
Affective Disorders
Emotion in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
Av Bede Scott
Häftad, 2022
587 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies, affect studies, and narratology, Affective Disorders explores the significance of emotion in a range of colonial and …
Decolonisations of Literature
Critical Practice in Africa and Brazil after 1945
Inbunden, 2022
854 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.This book sets out to understand how the meaning of ‘literature’ was transformed in the Global South in the post-1945 era. It looks at institutional contexts in South Africa (mainly …
Into Our Labours
Work and its Representation in World-Literary Perspective
Av Neil Lazarus
Inbunden, 2022
2278 kr
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Into our Labours explores the literary representation of work across the globe since 1850, setting out to show that the literature of modernity is best understood in the light of the worlding of capitalism. The book proposes that a determinative relation exists between changing modes of work and …
Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise
Av Joanne Leow
Inbunden, 2024
2195 kr
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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Counter-Cartographies draws from a body of Anglophone and multilingual cultural texts created in contemporary Singapore and in its diasporic communities. From banned documentaries to award-winning graphic novels, …
Kinship Across the Black Atlantic
Writing Diasporic Relations
Av Gigi Adair
Häftad, 2022
582 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.This book considers the meaning of kinship across black Atlantic diasporas in the Caribbean, Western Europe and North America via readings of six contemporary novels. It draws …
Public Secrets
Race and Colour in Colonial and Independent Jamaica
Häftad, 2022
646 kr
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Informed by critical race theory and based on a wide range of sources, including official sources, memoirs, and anthropological studies, this book examines multiple forms of racial discrimination in Jamaica and how they were talked about and experienced from the end of the First World War until the …
Singing the Law
Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of Colonial Modernity in East African Literature
Av Peter Leman
Häftad, 2023
669 kr
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Singing the Law is about the legal lives and afterlives of oral cultures in East Africa, particularly as they appear within the pages of written literatures during the colonial and postcolonial periods. In examining these cultures, this book begins with an analysis of the cultural narratives of …
Postcolonial Health in African Literatures
Epidemiological and Environmental Fictions
Inbunden, 2026
2398 kr
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Postcolonial Health in African Literatures uncovers the overlooked intersections between public health histories, environmental governance, and literary expression in postcolonial African contexts. Through five chapters, the book examines how canonical and understudied African authors construct …
Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise
Av Joanne Leow
Häftad, 2026
530 kr
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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Counter-Cartographies draws from a body of Anglophone and multilingual cultural texts created in contemporary Singapore and in its diasporic communities. From banned documentaries to award-winning graphic novels, …
Into Our Labours
Work and its Representation in World-Literary Perspective
Av Neil Lazarus
Häftad, 2024
581 kr
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Into our Labours explores the literary representation of work across the globe since 1850, setting out to show that the literature of modernity is best understood in the light of the worlding of capitalism. The book proposes that a determinative relation exists between changing modes of work and …
Ecology of the Zombie
World-Culture and the Monstrous
Häftad, 2025
494 kr
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Ecology of the Zombie marks a significant intervention into the fields of world literature, film studies, ecocriticism, and Gothic Studies. Arguing that the zombie is a fundamentally ecological figure, the book offers original readings of a range of cultural texts from across the Caribbean and the …
Beyond Alterity: Contemporary Indian Fiction and the Neoliberal Script
Häftad, 2025
494 kr
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Beyond Alterity contests a core tendency in postcolonial studies as well as emerging critiques of neoliberalism—to assume that nations of the Global South are categorically distinct from their counterparts in the North and that they provide an alternative, or even an antidote, to the competitive …
