Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures – serie
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What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say
Av Anna Bernard, Ziad Elmarsafy m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
951 kr
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This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological assumptions of its dominant formations. It emerges, however, from an investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a commitment to its basic premise: namely, that …
Body, Desire and Storytelling in Novels by J. M. Coetzee
Inbunden, 2018
2904 kr
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Asserting that Coetzee’s representation of the body as subject to dismemberment counters the colonial representation of the other’s body as exotic and erotically-charged, this study inspects the ambivalence pertaining to Coetzee’s embodied representation of the other and reveals the risks that come …
Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature
Av David Attwell, Annalisa Pes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature provides a new and wide-ranging appraisal of shame in colonial and postcolonial literature in English. Bringing together young and established voices in postcolonial studies, these essays tackle shame and racism, shame and agency, shame and …
Postcolonial Animalities
Av Suvadip Sinha, Amit Baishya
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Postcolonial Animalities, co-edited by Suvadip Sinha and Amit R. Baishya, brings together ten essays to consider the interfaces between "human" and "animal" and the concrete presence of animals in postcolonial cultural production. This edited collection critiques monohumanist conceptions of the …
Verbal-Visual Configurations in Postcolonial Literature
Intermedial Aesthetics
Av Birgit Neumann, Gabriele Rippl
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Examining a range of contemporary Anglophone texts, this book opens up postcolonial and transcultural studies for discussions of visuality and vision. It argues that the preoccupation with visual practices in Anglophone literatures addresses the power of images, vision and visual aesthetics to …
Olive Schreiner and African Modernism
Allegory, Empire and Postcolonial Writing
Häftad, 2019
883 kr
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This book works across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places, and topics traditionally associated with anti-colonialism and aesthetic experimentation in African literature. The book is the first account of Olive Schreiner as a …
Writing Cyprus
Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Bahriye Kemal's ground-breaking new work serves as the first study of the literatures of Cyprus from a postcolonial and partition perspective. Her book explores Anglophone, Hellenophone and Turkophone writings from the 1920s to the present.Drawing on Yi-Fu Tuan’s humanistic geography and Henri …
Speaking Politically
Adorno and Postcolonial Fiction
Inbunden, 2021
799 kr
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In this monograph Theodor Adorno’s philosophy engages with postcolonial texts and authors that emerge out of situations of political extremity – apartheid South Africa, war-torn Sri Lanka, Pinochet’s dictatorship, and the Greek military junta. This book is ground-breaking in two key ways: first, it …
(Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran
Remediated Witnessing in Literary, Visual, and Digital Media
Inbunden, 2022
2904 kr
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This book critically examines the representational politics of women in post-millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran across a range of literary, visual, and digital media. Introducing the conceptual model of remediated witnessing, the book contemplates the ways in which meaning is constructed, …
Critical Branding
Postcolonial Studies and the Market
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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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 …
Zoë Wicomb & the Translocal
Writing Scotland & South Africa
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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This is the first book on the fiction of Zoë Wicomb, a writer long at the forefront of the South African canon and whose international stature was firmly secured with the award of an inaugural Windham Campbell prize at Yale in 2013. It brings together interdisciplinary essays from the UK, USA, …
Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World
Av Rebecca Romdhani, Daria Tunca
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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This book examines representations of violence across the postcolonial world—from the Americas to Australia—in novels, short stories, plays, and films. The chapters move from what appear to be interpersonal instances of violence to communal conflicts such as civil war, showing how these acts of …
Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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This is the first sustained study of the formal particularities of works by Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright. Drawing on a rich theoretical framework that includes approaches to relationality by Aboriginal thinkers, Edouard Glissant, and Jean-Luc Nancy, and recent work in …
Caring for Community
Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels
Häftad, 2020
850 kr
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Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels focuses on four highly acclaimed publications in order to argue for a new understanding of community and its ethical framework in recent literary texts. Traditionally, community has been understood to …
Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique
Critical Engagements with Benita Parry
Av Sharae Deckard, Rashmi Varma
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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Using the aesthetic and political concerns of Parry’s oeuvre as a touchstone, this book explores new directions for postcolonial studies, Marxist literary criticism, and world literature in the contemporary moment, seeking to re-imagine the field, and alongside it, new possibilities for left …
Popular Postcolonialisms
Discourses of Empire and Popular Culture
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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Drawing together the insights of postcolonial scholarship and cultural studies, Popular Postcolonialisms questions the place of ‘the popular’ in the postcolonial paradigm. Multidisciplinary in focus, this collection explores the extent to which popular forms are infused with colonial logics, and …
Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific
Discourses of Encounter
Av Michelle Keown, Andrew Taylor m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
850 kr
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This interdisciplinary collection explores the confluence of American and British (neo)imperalism in the Pacific, as represented in various forms of Pacific discourse including literature, ethnography, film, painting, autobiography, journalism, and environmental discourse. It investigates the …
Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations
Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Palestine
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations significantly enhances the interface between postcolonial literary studies and the hitherto under-studied Arab world. Lindsey Moore brings together canonical and less familiar Arab novels and memoirs from the last half century to consider colonial continuities …
Postcolonial Comics
Texts, Events, Identities
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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This collection examines new comic-book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinée texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. The individual chapters are framed within a larger enquiry that considers definitive aspects of the postcolonial …
Speaking Politically
Adorno and Postcolonial Fiction
Häftad, 2023
749 kr
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In this monograph Theodor Adorno’s philosophy engages with postcolonial texts and authors that emerge out of situations of political extremity – apartheid South Africa, war-torn Sri Lanka, Pinochet’s dictatorship, and the Greek military junta. This book is ground-breaking in two key ways: first, it …
Postcolonial Indian City-Literature
Policy, Politics and Evolution
Inbunden, 2022
2904 kr
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How is the city represented through literature from the post-colonies? This book searches for an answer to this question, by keeping its focus on India—from after Independence to the millennia. How does the urban space and the literature depicting it form a dialogue within? How have Indian cities …
Rethinking the Victim
Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women's Writing
Häftad, 2021
816 kr
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This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on …
Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature
Av Kate Houlden
Häftad, 2019
934 kr
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This book is the first to focus exclusively on issues of gender and sexuality in a range of post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Concentrating on the 1950s to the mid 1970s, it highlights the period's diversity of sexual concerns. New readings of seminal figures like Samuel Selvon and …
Postcolonial Urban Outcasts
City Margins in South Asian Literature
Av Madhurima Chakraborty, Umme Al-wazedi
Häftad, 2019
934 kr
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Extending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontents of the South Asian city. The collection investigates how South Asian literature and literature about South Asia attends to urban margins, regardless of whether the definition of …
Magical Realism in West African Fiction
Inbunden, 1998
2904 kr
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This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers: Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben Okri of Nigeria and Kojo Laing of Ghana. Brenda Cooper explores the distinct elements of the genre …
Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry
Making Style
Inbunden, 2001
2904 kr
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Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are contextualized both within Caribbean cultural debates and postcolonial and feminist critical …
Postcolonial Jane Austen
Av You-Me Park, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Inbunden, 2000
2904 kr
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This volume offers a unique contribution to both postcolonial studies and Austen scholarship by:* examining the texts to illumine nineteenth century attitudes to colonialism and the expanding Empire* revealing a new range of interpretations of Austen's work, each shaped by the critic's particular …
African Literature, Animism and Politics
Inbunden, 2001
2525 kr
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This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of the African discourse of consciousness and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism. It will be of great interest to scholars in many fields including literary and critical theory, …
Caribbean-English Passages
Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition
Inbunden, 2001
2904 kr
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Tobias Döring uses Postcolonialism as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevance to, and modification by, the Caribbean experience.Caribbean-English Passages opens an innovative …
Writing Woman, Writing Place
Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction
Av Sue Kossew
Inbunden, 2003
2904 kr
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Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a problematic relationship to place and belonging, relations with indigenous people and the way in which women's subjectivity …
