Literary studies: post-colonial literature books

3422 books were found.

The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa: Memory, Narrative, and History

The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa:...

Author: Elsa Peralta (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
ISBN: 9780367704100
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Placed in the wider scope of post-war European decolonisation migrations, The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies...  Read More >>

Memory, Trauma, Asia: Recall, Affect, and Orientalism in Contemporary Narratives

Memory, Trauma, Asia: Recall, Affect, and Orientalism...

Author: Rahul K. Gairola (Murdoch University, Australia) ,  Sharanya Jayawickrama
ISBN: 9780367645014
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume explores the complex and surprising intersections of literature, history, ethics, affect, and social...  Read More >>

Trauma and Transformation in African Literature

Trauma and Transformation in African Literature

Author: J. Roger Kurtz
ISBN: 9780367562120
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book interrogates the relevance of trauma for African literatures, arguing that a thoughtful application of...  Read More >>

« A ti pa » avec l'antillectuel Léon Damas: Vers une France décoloniale?

« A ti pa » avec l'antillectuel Léon Damas: Vers une...

Author: Kathleen Gyssels
ISBN: 9789004407206
Format: Hardback
$440.88

Troisième homme de la négritude, Léon Damas s’alignait sur la Harlem Renaissance et les surréalistes comme Apollinaire...  Read More >>

Visualizing Loss in Latin America: Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment

Visualizing Loss in Latin America: Biopolitics, Waste,...

Author: Gisela Heffes ,  Grady C. Wray
ISBN: 9783031288302
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual, and cultural material with specific...  Read More >>

Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World

Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The...

Author: Jörg Matthias Determann (Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar)
ISBN: 9780755650361
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction. Religion and repression have often been blamed...  Read More >>

Cereus Blooms at Night: The Booker-Longlisted Queer Classic

Cereus Blooms at Night: The Booker-Longlisted Queer...

Author: Shani Mootoo
ISBN: 9781784878320
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A phenomenal modern classic, new to the Vintage Classics list, for readers both long-standing and new. Through dialogue...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics since 1900

The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics...

Author: Daniel Morris (Purdue University, Indiana)
ISBN: 9781009180030
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This book helps students and teachers make sense of the scope and complexity of the relationships between poetry...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics since 1900

The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics...

Author: Daniel Morris (Purdue University, Indiana)
ISBN: 9781009180023
Format: Hardback
$168.19

This book helps students and teachers make sense of the scope and complexity of the relationships between poetry...  Read More >>

Bhai Vir Singh (1872–1957): Religious and Literary Modernities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Indian Punjab

Bhai Vir Singh (1872–1957): Religious and Literary Modernities...

Author: Anshu Malhotra ,  Anne Murphy
ISBN: 9781032267784
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This volume brings together work by established and emerging scholars to consider the work and impact of Bhai Vir...  Read More >>

Stateless Literature of the Gulf: Culture, Politics and the Bidun in Kuwait

Stateless Literature of the Gulf: Culture, Politics...

Author: Tareq Alrabei (Gulf University for Science & Technology, Kuwait)
ISBN: 9780755644889
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The “Bidun” (“without nationality”) are a stateless community based across the Arab Gulf. There are an estimated...  Read More >>

The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance: Intrepid Post-Revolution Artists and Writers

The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance: Intrepid...

Author: Elena Poniatowska ,  Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez
ISBN: 9783031111761
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This includes Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo, and Nahui Olin, three outstanding artists of the cultural renaissance...  Read More >>

Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre: Paradigms of Being and Belonging (1959-1979)

Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre:...

Author: Saeed Talajooy
ISBN: 9780755648665
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Since the beginning of his artistic career in 1959, Bahram Beyzaie’s oeuvre has incorporated various aspects of...  Read More >>

Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture

Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature...

Author: Marta Fernández Campa
ISBN: 9783030721343
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book discusses an archival turn in the work of contemporary Caribbean writers and visual artists across linguistic...  Read More >>

Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures

Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters,...

Author: Brenda E.F. Beck
ISBN: 9781487529345
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Building on a South Asian oral folk legend, Hidden Paradigms identifies the important symbolic patterns that well-known...  Read More >>

Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures

Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters,...

Author: Brenda E.F. Beck
ISBN: 9781487529338
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Building on a South Asian oral folk legend, Hidden Paradigms identifies the important symbolic patterns that well-known...  Read More >>

Leaving Other People Alone: Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction

Leaving Other People Alone: Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine...

Author: Aaron Kreuter
ISBN: 9781772126570
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist,...  Read More >>

Gloria Anzaldúa’s Hemispheric Performativity: Pieces, Shuffles, Layers

Gloria Anzaldúa’s Hemispheric Performativity: Pieces,...

Author: Romana Radlwimmer
ISBN: 9783031218699
Format: Hardback
$103.47

This Palgrave Pivot offers new insights into leading Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa, investigating the dynamic composition...  Read More >>

Indigenous Plots in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema

Indigenous Plots in Twenty-First Century Latin American...

Author: Maria Chiara D'Argenio
ISBN: 9783030939168
Format: Paperback
$258.72

In this engaging book, Maria Chiara D’Argenio delineates a turn in recent Latin American filmmaking towards inter/cultural...  Read More >>

At Home with Ivan Vladislavić: An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City

At Home with Ivan Vladislavić: An African Flaneur Greens...

Author: Gerald Gaylard
ISBN: 9781032332918
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This monograph is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s sensitivity...  Read More >>

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