Literary studies: post-colonial literature books

3422 books were found.

Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary...

Author: Roger Bromley
ISBN: 9783030735951
Format: Hardback
$343.17

Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence focuses on...  Read More >>

Literature and Nation-Building in Vietnam: The Invisibilization of the Indians

Literature and Nation-Building in Vietnam: The Invisibilization...

Author: Chi P. Pham
ISBN: 9780367188184
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book analyses why Indians have been made invisible in Vietnamese society and historiography.  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene...

Author: John Parham (University of Worcester)
ISBN: 9781108498531
Format: Hardback
$230.26

This book is for readers interested in how literature tackles climate change, 'petro-culture', extinction, and the...  Read More >>

Narratives Crossing Borders: The Dynamics of Cultural Interaction

Narratives Crossing Borders: The Dynamics of Cultural...

Author: Herbert Jonsson ,  Lovisa Berg
ISBN: 9789176351437
Format: Paperback
$29.76

What happens when stories are transmitted, retold, and translated? How can we better understand the diversity of...  Read More >>

Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony

Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony...

Author: Jill Jarvis
ISBN: 9781478014102
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Jill Jarvis examines the crucial role that writers and artists have played in cultivating historical memory and...  Read More >>

Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony

Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony...

Author: Jill Jarvis
ISBN: 9781478011965
Format: Hardback
$271.79

Jill Jarvis examines the crucial role that writers and artists have played in cultivating historical memory and...  Read More >>

Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe's Proverbs

Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress:...

Author: Francis B Nyamnjoh ,  Patrick U Nwosu
ISBN: 9789956551477
Format: Paperback
$95.74

This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs,...  Read More >>

World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time

World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics...

Author: Filippo Menozzi
ISBN: 9783030417000
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary...  Read More >>

Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces: Colonial Borders in French and Francophone Literature and Film

Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces: Colonial Borders...

Author: Mohit Chandna
ISBN: 9789462702738
Format: Paperback
$67.27

Colonial expansion and spatial grammar in French-language works from different historical and national contexts...  Read More >>

Multilingual Literature as World Literature

Multilingual Literature as World Literature

Author: Dr Jane Hiddleston (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Dr. Wen-chin Ouyang (Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, SOAS, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781501360091
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Multilingual Literature as World Literature examines and adjusts current theories and practices of world literature,...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel: On Catastrophic Realism

Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel: On Catastrophic...

Author: Sourit Bhattacharya
ISBN: 9783030373993
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing...  Read More >>

The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism

The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature...

Author: Nivedita Majumdar
ISBN: 9781788737463
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Radical universalism vs postcolonial theory  Read More >>

Old Age in African Literary and Cultural Contexts

Old Age in African Literary and Cultural Contexts

Author: Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong
ISBN: 9781527569461
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Through a wide range of indigenous, postcolonial, gender and racial lenses, African writers have provided perspectives...  Read More >>

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Author: Christopher J. Lee
ISBN: 9780367229092
Format: Paperback
$41.99

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Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Author: Christopher J. Lee
ISBN: 9780367223595
Format: Hardback
$204.00

This clear and engaging introduction is the first book to assess the ideas of Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Ghanaian-British...  Read More >>

The Quality of Life: Essays on Cultural Politics, 1978-2018

The Quality of Life: Essays on Cultural Politics, 1978-2018...

Author: Richard Pine
ISBN: 9781527569508
Format: Hardback
$263.87

These essays represent a selection of 40 years’ commentary on the political dimensions of cultural life. They address...  Read More >>

Literatures of Urban Possibility

Literatures of Urban Possibility

Author: Markku Salmela ,  Lieven Ameel
ISBN: 9783030709082
Format: Hardback
$448.77

In city literature, ideas of possibility emerge primarily through two perspectives: texts may focus on what is possible...  Read More >>

Am Ende: Lebensbilanzen in Der Zeitgenossischen Romanischen Erzahlfiktion

Am Ende: Lebensbilanzen in Der Zeitgenossischen Romanischen...

Author: Werner Helmich
ISBN: 9783825348403
Format: Hardback
$147.84

Seitdem Beckett das alte Bild vom Leben als Sterben mit einem neuen endzeitlichen Pathos gefullt hat, hat sich das...  Read More >>

Off-White: Yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American Culture

Off-White: Yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American...

Author: Professor or Dr. Sheng-mei Ma (Professor, Michigan State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501381478
Format: Paperback
$64.99

How do English-speaking novelists and filmmakers tell stories of China from a Chinese perspective? How do they keep...  Read More >>

Cosmos, Values, and Consciousness in Latin American Digital Culture

Cosmos, Values, and Consciousness in Latin American...

Author: Angelica J. Huizar
ISBN: 9783030454005
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book understands digital cultural production of electronic literatures and digital art by looking at electronic...  Read More >>

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