Literary studies: post-colonial literature books

3422 books were found.

Postcolonial Hauntings: Play and Transnational Feminism

Postcolonial Hauntings: Play and Transnational Feminism...

Author: Sushmita Chatterjee
ISBN: 9780252045981
Format: Hardback
$242.00

Often examined separately, play and hauntings in fact act together to frame postcolonial issues. Sushmita Chatterjee...  Read More >>

Re-temporalising the Cultural in India

Re-temporalising the Cultural in India

Author: Ritwick Bhattacharjee ,  Dr Srinjoyee Dutta
ISBN: 9789356404120
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The book looks at the different ways the temporal features in the existential exigencies of the human located within...  Read More >>

Crime Fiction in the Caribbean: Reframing Crime and Justice

Crime Fiction in the Caribbean: Reframing Crime and...

Author: Lucy Evans (Associate Professor in Postcolonial Literature, Associate Professor in Postcolonial Literature, University of Leicester)
ISBN: 9780198919889
Format: Hardback
$177.95

Covering novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, and Haiti, Lucy Evans explores how...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis

The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis

Author: Silvia Pellicer-Ortín ,  Julia Kuznetski
ISBN: 9781032424644
Format: Hardback
$452.00

The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis provides insight into a complex phenomenon. The collection examines...  Read More >>

European Peripheries in the Postcolonial Literary Imagination

European Peripheries in the Postcolonial Literary Imagination...

Author: Janine Hauthal ,  Anna-Leena Toivanen
ISBN: 9781032726779
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores the meanings of European peripheries in postcolonial literary imagination. Acknowledging the...  Read More >>

Perpetrators’ Legacies: Post-imperial Condition in Sebald and McEwan

Perpetrators’ Legacies: Post-imperial Condition in Sebald...

Author: Vladimir Biti
ISBN: 9781032814438
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The book presents Winfried Georg Sebald and Ian McEwan as paradigmatic post-imperial writers who, enmeshed in the...  Read More >>

The 1984 Anti-Sikh Violence: Narration and Trauma in Language and Literature

The 1984 Anti-Sikh Violence: Narration and Trauma in...

Author: Ritika Singh
ISBN: 9781032451299
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book presents a comprehensive theoretical study of fictional and non-fictional narratives of 1984 anti-Sikh...  Read More >>

Writing Tangier in the Postcolonial Transition: Space and Power in Expatriate and North African Literature

Writing Tangier in the Postcolonial Transition: Space...

Author: Michael K. Walonen
ISBN: 9781032929071
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In his study of the Tangier expatriate community at the end of the colonial era, Walonen analyses representations...  Read More >>

Magical Realism in Africa: Literary and Dramatic Explorations

Magical Realism in Africa: Literary and Dramatic Explorations...

Author: Sarali Gintsburg ,  Kenneth Usongo
ISBN: 9781032613734
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism...  Read More >>

Mahasweta Devi: Writer, Activist, Visionary

Mahasweta Devi: Writer, Activist, Visionary

Author: Radha Chakravarty (Ambedkar University, Delhi, India)
ISBN: 9780367702748
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Mahasweta Devi occupies a singular position in the history of modern Indian literature and world literature. This...  Read More >>

The Humanities Reloaded: Addressing Crisis

The Humanities Reloaded: Addressing Crisis

Author: Keyan G. Tomaselli (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) ,  Pier Paolo Frassinelli (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
ISBN: 9781032418292
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume examines the crisis of humanities narratives in the context of neoliberal capitalism and of the emergence...  Read More >>

Acoustics of Empire: Sound, Media, and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century

Acoustics of Empire: Sound, Media, and Power in the...

Author: Peter McMurray (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of Cambridge) ,  Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University)
ISBN: 9780197553787
Format: Hardback
$219.95

Music and sound studies have increasingly turned their attention to questions of empire and postcolonial thought...  Read More >>

Modern Indian Literature as Cosmopolis: Conversations with Hanuman

Modern Indian Literature as Cosmopolis: Conversations...

Author: Didier Coste
ISBN: 9781032749105
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book redefines modern Indian literature from a cosmopolitan comparative perspective inclusive of literature...  Read More >>

A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism: Come Back Babar

A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism:...

Author: Andrew Nyongesa (Murang'A University Of Technology) ,  John Mugubi
ISBN: 9781032772226
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book is response to the recent surge of formidable voices that consistently demean and attempt to reverse the...  Read More >>

Japan and Japonisme in Late Nineteenth Century Literature

Japan and Japonisme in Late Nineteenth Century Literature...

Author: Naomi Charlotte Fukuzawa
ISBN: 9781032545950
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines the transnational phenomenon of Japonisme in the exoticist and ‘auto-exoticist’ literature of...  Read More >>

Border Politics in Novels by European Women in Translation

Border Politics in Novels by European Women in Translation...

Author: Prof Pam Morris
ISBN: 9781350434059
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Is conflict inherent to the politics of borders? Recent global events, erupting from national, religious, class,...  Read More >>

Rewriting Alpine Orientalism: Postcolonial Readings in Canadian and Austrian Mountain Tourism

Rewriting Alpine Orientalism: Postcolonial Readings...

Author: Dr. Eva-Maria Müller (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
ISBN: 9798765107737
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This cross-disciplinary study combines postcolonial, mountain, and tourism studies to explore how meaning about...  Read More >>

In the Shadow of Partition: Seventy-Five Years and Beyond

In the Shadow of Partition: Seventy-Five Years and Beyond...

Author: Nalini Iyer ,  Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
ISBN: 9781032836478
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented...  Read More >>

Mary Kingsley: A Victorian in the Jungle

Mary Kingsley: A Victorian in the Jungle

Author: Olwen Campbell
ISBN: 9781032833934
Format: Hardback
$189.00

In travel books, Mary Kingsley described her experiences with immense detachment and humour. These lengthy works...  Read More >>

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