Literary studies: post-colonial literature books

The Afterlife of Texts in Translation: Understanding the Messianic in Literature reads Walter Benjamin’s and Jacques...  Read More >>

Spectres from the Past: The ""History"" of Slavery in West African and African-American Narratives explores slavery...  Read More >>

This book presents a historical account of the development of an acrolectal variety of the English language in colonial...  Read More >>

This book looks at facets in the history of capitalism from the Enlightenment period, through the emergence of the...  Read More >>

What does it mean to theorize Christianity in light of the decolonial turn? This volume invites distinguished Latinx...  Read More >>

Anxieties of Experience offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature. Rereading a range of canonical...  Read More >>

This book considers literary images of Japan created by David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Tan Twan Eng to examine...  Read More >>

Drawing on original contributions of four major voices in the Spanish lyric of today, Judith Nantell investigates...  Read More >>

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Drawing on original contributions of four major voices in the Spanish lyric of today, Judith Nantell investigates...  Read More >>

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Dante's vision of hell is a very public place where suffering is on open display. A key character, Vanni Fucci,...  Read More >>

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Gegenwartig fuhren hohe Berge in den Kulturen des Alpinismus, in Film und Fernsehen, in den Bildenden Kunsten, der...  Read More >>

In der Literatur der Gegenwart lasst sich eine auffallige Bezugnahme auf romantische Denkfiguren und damit verbundene...  Read More >>

This book studies how the rhetoric of travel introduces conceptualizations of space and time in scenarios of war...  Read More >>

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As part of the “beaten track”, Germany did not conform to the Grand Tourist ideals of eighteenth-century British...  Read More >>

In contemporary Anglo-Caribbean literature, the dialectic interrelations of “exile” and “return” are essential for...  Read More >>

This text is intended to help students move from introductory courses to those where rigor and proof play a much...  Read More >>

Frederick Buechner is one of the most gifted writers of his generation, with an important legacy as a memoirist,...  Read More >>

This book combines insights from postcolonial, queer and diaspora studies to consider the meanings of kinship in...  Read More >>