Literary studies: post-colonial literature books

3495 books were found.

Colonial Extensions, Postcolonial Decentrings: Cultures and Discourses on the Edge

Colonial Extensions, Postcolonial Decentrings: Cultures...

Author: Salhia Ben-Messahel ,  Vanessa Castejon
ISBN: 9782807600539
Format: Paperback
$106.73

This interdisciplinary study investigates the ways in which colonialism/imperialism has generated a post-colonial...  Read More >>

9/11 in European Literature: Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed

9/11 in European Literature: Negotiating Identities...

Author: Svenja Frank
ISBN: 9783319642086
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature.  Read More >>

Multilingualism and Modernity: Barbarisms in Spanish and American Literature

Multilingualism and Modernity: Barbarisms in Spanish...

Author: Laura Lonsdale
ISBN: 9783319673271
Format: Hardback
$263.97

This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Women in the Indian Diaspora: Historical Narratives and Contemporary Challenges

Women in the Indian Diaspora: Historical Narratives...

Author: Amba Pande
ISBN: 9789811059506
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This volume brings into focus a range of emergent issues related to women in the Indian diaspora. The essays included...  Read More >>

Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature

Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical...

Author: Susana Onega ,  Constanza del Río
ISBN: 9783319552774
Format: Hardback
$263.97

This volume addresses the construction and artistic representation of traumatic memories in the contemporary Western...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh After Empire

Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh After Empire...

Author: Deepika Bahri
ISBN: 9780816698363
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh After Empire

Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh After Empire...

Author: Deepika Bahri
ISBN: 9780816698356
Format: Hardback
$255.79

Although the body has been a vast subject for postcolonial studies, few theorists have attempted to go beyond the...  Read More >>

Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives: From the Eighteenth Century to Monica Ali

Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora...

Author: Noemí Pereira-Ares
ISBN: 9783319613963
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book is the first book-length study to explore the sartorial politics of identity in the literature of the...  Read More >>

The Dark Landscape of Modern Fiction

The Dark Landscape of Modern Fiction

Author: Patrick Reilly
ISBN: 9781138715318
Format: Hardback
$168.00

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

Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature

Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and...

Author: Cajetan Iheka (University of Alabama)
ISBN: 9781107199170
Format: Hardback
$250.99

This book analyzes how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa. It is a...  Read More >>

Visuality and Identity in Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives

Visuality and Identity in Post-millennial Indian Graphic...

Author: E. Dawson Varughese
ISBN: 9783319694894
Format: Hardback
$171.57

This book investigates the intersection of Indian society, the encoding of post-millennial modernity and ‘ways of...  Read More >>

Mapping Violeta Parra’s Cultural Landscapes

Mapping Violeta Parra’s Cultural Landscapes

Author: Patricia Vilches
ISBN: 9783319693019
Format: Hardback
$171.57

One of the leading figures in Latin American folk music and art during her lifetime, Violeta Parra was a vital force...  Read More >>

Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas: The Politics of Observation

Women, Travel, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Americas:...

Author: Nina Gerassi-Navarro
ISBN: 9783319615059
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book offers a new and insightful look at the interconnections between the United States, Brazil and Mexico...  Read More >>

Narratives of Inequality: Postcolonial Literary Economics

Narratives of Inequality: Postcolonial Literary Economics...

Author: Melissa Kennedy
ISBN: 9783319599564
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book reveals the economic motivations underpinning colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal eras of global capitalism...  Read More >>

India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s

India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s

Author: Anupama Arora ,  Rajender Kaur
ISBN: 9783319623337
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book seeks to frame the “the idea of India” in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive...  Read More >>

Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions: Aesthetics of Resistance

Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions: Aesthetics...

Author: Caroline A. Brown ,  Johanna X. K. Garvey
ISBN: 9783319581262
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers from Africa, the...  Read More >>

The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing: New Contexts, New Narratives, New Debates

The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing:...

Author: Dr Jenni Ramone (Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781474240086
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Covering a wide range of textual forms and geographical locations, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing:...  Read More >>

Literature and the Global Contemporary

Literature and the Global Contemporary

Author: Sarah Brouillette ,  Mathias Nilges
ISBN: 9783319630540
Format: Hardback
$258.72

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Writing in Red: The East German Writers Union and the Role of Literary Intellectuals

Writing in Red: The East German Writers Union and the...

Author: Thomas W. Goldstein (Author)
ISBN: 9781571139207
Format: Hardback
$343.20

This book explores how the East German Writers Union became a site for the contestation of writers' roles in GDR...  Read More >>

Language, Culture and Power: English�Tamil in Modern India, 1900 to Present Day

Language, Culture and Power: English�Tamil in Modern...

Author: C. T. Indra ,  R. Rajagopalan
ISBN: 9781138289222
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries, evaluating vital roles...  Read More >>

Culture, Language and Identity: English�Tamil In Colonial India, 1750 To 1900

Culture, Language and Identity: English�Tamil In Colonial...

Author: C. T. Indra ,  R. Rajagopalan
ISBN: 9781138282339
Format: Hardback
$336.00

This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It sheds light on how...  Read More >>

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