Literary studies: post-colonial literature books

3495 books were found.

Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire, and Modern British Literature

Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire, and Modern British...

Author: Patrick Deer (Associate Professor of English, New York University)
ISBN: 9780198715580
Format: Paperback
$112.95

The British state and war machine struggled to produce a fully modernized and persuasive war culture in two world...  Read More >>

A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder

A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and...

Author: Dr Grace A Musila
ISBN: 9781847011275
Format: Hardback
$116.44

Re-examines this unresolved murder in Kenya and the underlying role of rumour, the media and inter-state relations...  Read More >>

The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel: Memory, Trauma, and Capital

The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel: Memory, Trauma, and...

Author: Felix Lang
ISBN: 9781137559883
Format: Hardback
$145.17

After the Lebanese Civil War, many Lebanese novelists committed themselves to building a ""memory for the future.""...  Read More >>

Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (a Reader's Companion)

Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond...

Author: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
ISBN: 9780813575971
Format: Hardback
$113.39

American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature ""endows places with meaning."" Yet, as this wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Telling Our Stories: Continuities and Divergences in Black Autobiographies

Telling Our Stories: Continuities and Divergences in...

Author: A. Alabi
ISBN: 9781349530335
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Telling Our Stories investigates the continuities and divergences in selected Black autobiographies from Africa,...  Read More >>

The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature: Towards a New Critical Grammar of Migration

The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature:...

Author: L. Adelson
ISBN: 9781349531097
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Challenging the commonplace that suspends migrants between two worlds', this study turns a refreshingly curious...  Read More >>

Imagining the Black Female Body: Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture

Imagining the Black Female Body: Reconciling Image in...

Author: C. Henderson
ISBN: 9781349290536
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various ""imaginings"" of the black female body...  Read More >>

Literature’s Sensuous Geographies: Postcolonial Matters of Place

Literature’s Sensuous Geographies: Postcolonial Matters...

Author: S. Moslund
ISBN: 9781349502516
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature...  Read More >>

Literature the People Love: Reading Chinese Texts from the Early Maoist Period (1949-1966)

Literature the People Love: Reading Chinese Texts from...

Author: Krista Van Fleit Hang
ISBN: 9781349455355
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Examining the production of 'people's literature' in China, this study provides a new interpretive framework with...  Read More >>

South African Literature after the Truth Commission: Mapping Loss

South African Literature after the Truth Commission:...

Author: S. Graham
ISBN: 9781349379231
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This book studies a broad and ambitious selection of contemporary South African literature, fiction, drama, poetry,...  Read More >>

Francophone Voices of the “New” Morocco in Film and Print: (Re)presenting a Society in Transition

Francophone Voices of the “New” Morocco in Film and...

Author: V. Orlando
ISBN: 9781349379866
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This study of Moroccan society explores the country's culture through its literature, journalism and film. It examines...  Read More >>

Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Incendiary Pictures

Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American...

Author: J. Husband
ISBN: 9781349383443
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the relationship between antislavery texts...  Read More >>

Narrating 9/11: Fantasies of State, Security, and Terrorism

Narrating 9/11: Fantasies of State, Security, and Terrorism...

Author: John N. Duvall (Purdue University) ,  Robert P. Marzec (Associate Editor, Modern Fiction Studies, Purdue University)
ISBN: 9781421417387
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Narrating 9/11 pushes beyond a critical focus on domestic realism, offering chapters that examine speculative and...  Read More >>

Culture and Eurocentrism

Culture and Eurocentrism

Author: Qadri Ismail
ISBN: 9781783486335
Format: Hardback
$361.00

A postcolonialist reading of the deployment of the concept of culture in literature, anthropology, philosophy, sociology,...  Read More >>

Aa Maratheyum Marannu Marannu Njan: And Slowly Forgetting That Tree

Aa Maratheyum Marannu Marannu Njan: And Slowly Forgetting...

Author: K. R Meera ,  J. Devika
ISBN: 9780199458097
Format: Paperback
$23.26

This novella is a hard-hitting tale of trauma, betrayal, and loneliness where a powerful feminist voice takes us...  Read More >>

Monsters and Monstrosity from the Fin de Siecle to the Millennium: New Essays

Monsters and Monstrosity from the Fin de Siecle to the...

Author: Sharla Hutchison ,  Rebecca A. Brown
ISBN: 9780786495061
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Zombies, vampires and ghosts feature prominently in nearly all forms of entertainment in the 21st century. But these...  Read More >>

Culture and Eurocentrism

Culture and Eurocentrism

Author: Qadri Ismail
ISBN: 9781783486342
Format: Paperback
$121.00

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Cultural Contexts and Literary Forms: Essays on Genre

Cultural Contexts and Literary Forms: Essays on Genre...

Author: Madhu Sahni ,  Chitra Harshvardhan
ISBN: 9783034319065
Format: Paperback
$119.28

Genres mutate, disappear, travel through translation and sometimes re-emerge. This volume includes not only theoretical...  Read More >>

Episodes in my Life: The Autobiography of Jan Carew

Episodes in my Life: The Autobiography of Jan Carew...

Author: Jan Carew ,  Joy Gleason Carew
ISBN: 9781845232450
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism

Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized...

Author: Scott Slovic ,  Swarnalatha Rangarajan
ISBN: 9781498525367
Format: Paperback
$134.00

Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development extends the energetic and socially important tradition of postcolonial...  Read More >>

The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary and Anthology Set

The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary and Anthology Set...

Author: Pramod K. Nayar (University of Hyderabad, India)
ISBN: 9781119120308
Format: Paperback
$105.95

Combines Nayar s The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary and Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology within one student...  Read More >>

Contested Modernities in Chinese Literature

Contested Modernities in Chinese Literature

Author: C. Laughlin
ISBN: 9781349530274
Format: Paperback
$145.17

The essays represent a wide spectrum of new approaches and new areas of subject matter that are changing the landscape...  Read More >>

Facing Diasporic Trauma: Self-Representation in the Writings of John Hearne, Caryl Phillips, and Fred D’Aguiar

Facing Diasporic Trauma: Self-Representation in the...

Author: Fatim Boutros
ISBN: 9789004308145
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Slavery is a recurring motif in the writings of Fred D’Aguiar, John Hearne and Caryl Phillips. They narrate the...  Read More >>

Postcolonial Traumas: Memory, Narrative, Resistance

Postcolonial Traumas: Memory, Narrative, Resistance...

Author: Abigail Ward
ISBN: 9781137526427
Format: Hardback
$263.97

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