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[Thiong’o] easily keeps the balance between the whimsical, political, spiritual and personal -- Todd Steven Burroughs * Ebony *\u003cbr\u003eEloquently telegraphs the complicated experience of being simultaneously oppressed and enlightened at the hands of a colonial regime * New York Times Book Review *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732303753559,"sku":"9780099572244","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"orwell-and-empire-9780192864093","title":"Orwell and Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsiders George Orwell's writing about the East, and the presence of the East in his writing and argues that in thinking of Orwell as an 'Anglo-Indian writer', not just in upbringing and experience, but in many of his views, perceptions, and reactions, a different Orwell emerges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKerr's insights on Orwell and Rudyard Kipling are particularly perceptive. No other writer was more important to Orwell: his whole life \"was a conversation, or quarrel, with Kipling\", quoting him frequently throughout his writings. While it is tempting to see the two writers as opposites, Kerr is keen to identify their similarities: \"Both of them were patriots though highly critical of their fellow-countrymen and frequently of their government. Both were public intellectuals who used their writing to raise political consciousness. Both loved animals and wrote books about them and both had a strong feeling for the English countryside\". * Richard Lance Keeble, English Studies *\u003cbr\u003eeminently readable, and a fascinating new look at Orwell's work * , Shiny New Books *\u003cbr\u003eThoughtful and methodical, Orwell and Empire is a good guide to [Orwell's] complex and not always consistent imperial attitudes. * Professor Krishan Kumar, The Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e[T]his is among the most enjoyable books on the subject of Orwell that I have discovered in a long time, and without doubt the finest work on Orwell's connection to empire and the east that it has been my privilege to read. * Ron Bateman, The Orwell Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1: Introduction: Anglo-India 2: Animals 3: Environment: Burmese Days 4: Class 5: Empire 6: Geography 7: Women 8: Race 9: Police 10: The Law 11: Literature Notes Bibliography","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732603711831,"sku":"9780192864093","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780192864093.jpg?v=1719997611"},{"product_id":"gospel-thrillers-9781009384612","title":"Gospel Thrillers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccessible to general and academic readers, Gospel Thrillers interweaves close readings of key themes in a little studied fiction genre with 'real world' tensions over biblical vulnerability, evident in political and cultural debates over the Bible and in popular literature about the Bible and Christian origins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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This volume addresses the old and new literary forms - from novels, plays, poetry, and essays to exciting and evolving genres such as ''cli-fi'', experimental poetry, interspecies design, gaming, weird, ecotopian and petro-fiction, and ''new'' nature writing. Studies range from the United States to India, from Palestine to Scotland, while addressing numerous global signifiers or consequences of the Anthropocene: catastrophe, extinction, ''fossil capital'', warming, politics, ethics, interspecies relations, deep time, and Earth. This unique Companion offers a compelling account of how to read literature through the Anthropocene and of how literatu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Recommended.'  J. Bilbro, Choice Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: With or Without Us: Literature and the Anthropocene John Parham; Prologue: Earth, Anthropocene, Literary Form; 1. 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Quayson uses Shakespeare''s Othello, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Tayeb Salih, Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett  and J.M. Coetzee to qualify and expand the purview and terms by which Western tragedy has long been understood. Drawing on key texts such as The Poetics and The Nicomachean Ethics, and augmenting them with Frantz Fanon and the Akan concept of musuo (taboo), Quayson formulates a supple, insightful new theory of ethical choice and the impediments against it. This is a major book from a leading critic in literary studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'… [This book] is a powerful insight, suggestive enough, one would have thought, to fuel a book-length inquiry into the distinctiveness of postcolonial tragedy.' Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Modern Philology\u003cbr\u003e'The book's connections to the fields of literature, philosophy, and history are apparent, as is its layered, meticulously crafted thesis. 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Three sections spanning his life, major texts, and place in history, connect Soyinka's legacy with global issues beyond the borders of his own country, and indeed beyond the African continent. Covering his encounters with the widespread rise of kleptocratic rule and international corporate corruption, his reflection on the human condition of the North-South divide, and the consequences of postcolonialism, this comprehensive biography locates Wole Soyinka as a global figure whose life and works have made him a subject of conversation in the public sphere, as well as one of Africa's most successful and popular authors. Looking at the different forms of Soyinka's work--plays, novels, and memoirs, among others--this volume argues that Soyinka used writing to\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is without any doubt well researched and offer very useful insight into the works and the environments that contributed to making Soyinka what he is today. The duo of Dauda and Falola have through this effort added their own to the body of rich and well-documented works that have come out to interpret Soyinka to his readers and make his work more accessible and understandable ... [T]he duo has contributed in no small way to advancing the frontiers of knowledge and understanding of Soyinka’s complex world. It is a book that should adorn bookshelves of libraries and institutions where serious intellectual work is done. Kudos to Dauda and Falola for this. * Naija Times *\u003cbr\u003eWole Soyinka’s imprimatur on African literature was before his laureateship. This is an Exhibit A of his secular and scared creations whose cessation should come in his wishes, when \u003ci\u003eObatala\u003c\/i\u003e, the Yoruba god of creations, calls him home. * Ivor Agyeman-Duah, Associate Director, Wole Soyinka Foundation (2017-2020), University of Johannesburg, South Africa *\u003cbr\u003eThis book dares to unearth new truths about Wole Soyinka—and more importantly to ask new questions—and by so doing, unmasks the man, his politics, and his art. * E.C. Osondu, Professor of English, Providence College, USA, and Winner of the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is yet another worthy addition to scholarship on Wole Soyinka's massive oeuvre, written by profoundly genial, cerebral and authoritative voices on African and global Humanities. It is a must-read for all scholars, intellectuals, and change agents committed to the deployment of cultural and literary superstructure, through the example of the literary patriot Wole Soyinka. * Olufemi Obafemi, Professor of English and Dramatic Literature, University of Ilorin, Nigeria, and President of the Association of Nigerian Authors *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePART 1: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eINTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Studies on Wole Soyinka   2. Wole Soyinka in Historical Perspective   \u003cb\u003ePART 2: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHISTORICAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND\u003c\/b\u003e 3. Abeokuta: The City of Innovations and Creativity 4. Collective Traditions, Childhood, and Rites of Passage  5. Nobel Laureate: Literary Scholarship and Nation-building 6. 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It takes literature seriously as a context for philosophical reflection, vividly engaging the human agency, creativity, and resourcefulness of local Nigerians as political and social actors and shedding new light on the dynamics of human flourishing. Drawing on important secondary scholarship across several humanities disciplines, especially literature, philosophy, and the performing arts, Nimi Wariboko provides compelling and innovative analysis of the challenges and opportunities on governance and development in postcolonial Nigerian state and society. With a detailed introductory chapter and an authoritative analysis contained in six cohesive chapters, all anchored in political and social ethics and close readings of fascinating literary and arti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this highly original work, social ethicist Nimi Wariboko steps off Aristotle’s insight that literature can be an excellent tool for teaching ethics and developing moral imagination to interrogate the works of four Nigerian writers and one comedian, instructing how the intersection of philosophy and literature can teach invaluable lessons on imagining an ethical, pluralistic, and democratic society in Nigeria. Incisively brilliant and beautifully written, this is a must read. * Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eIn this influential book, Nimi Wariboko brilliantly and thoughtfully reflects on the ethics of governance and development in a post-colonial space. By employing secondary data and critical analysis, he adopts his diverse disciplinary perspectives and mastery to deeply interrogate ethical and governance issues that post-colonial states in Africa continue to grapple with. This book also deeply speaks to ethical, moral, and historical dilemmas facing governance and democracy, and it is a must read for anyone interested in social ethics and governance in post-colonial Africa. * Damaris Parsitau, Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Religion and Gender Studies, Egerton University, Kenya, and Country Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Introduction: Hear Word—Literature Is Philosophy 1. Theoretical Hesitations: Ibadan Brown Roofs’ Rusty Revival of Desires 2. The Black Moon on the White Surface: A Philosophical Analysis of A. Igoni Barrett’s \u003ci\u003eBlackass\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Bad Governance and Postcoloniality: Literature as Cultural Criticism 4. From Executed God to Ozidi Saga: Ethos of Ijo Democratic Republicanism 5. Comedy as Dialectics: Laughing Nigeria to Human Flourishing 6. 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Editors Jean Khalfa’s and Robert Young’s painstaking work is a publishing event and an indispensable resource for anyone interested in understanding alienation and the search for social justice. -- Françoise Lionnet, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and African and African American Studies, Harvard University, USA\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAlienation and Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e, Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young, two of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary thought and postcolonial studies, transport us on an off-road adventure, challenging us at every turn to navigate the treacherous terrain of colonialism, global black consciousness, identity, philosophy, psychiatry, and race, hallmarks of the pioneering writings of Frantz Fanon. 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But this volume is certainly not a collection of disparate additional pieces from an author whose \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e is already complete. On the contrary this book by Frantz Fanon forms a unity: like the rest of the works by the author of the \u003ci\u003eWretched of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e it tells in a unique way the story of the emancipation of the human being from everything that alienates her, everything that separates her from her humanity. Thus it sheds a new light on Frantz Fanon. -- Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Introduction, \u003ci\u003eby Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young  \u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart One: Theatre\u003c\/b\u003e Fanon, Revolutionary Playwright, \u003ci\u003eby Robert J.C. Young\u003c\/i\u003e Parallel Hands  The Drowning Eye    \u003cb\u003ePart Two: Psychiatric writings \u003c\/b\u003e Fanon: A Revolutionary Psychiatrist, \u003ci\u003eby Jean Khalfa \u003c\/i\u003e Mental alterations, character modifications, psychic disorders and intellectual deficit in spinocerebellar heredo-degeneration: on a case of Friedreich’s ataxia with delusions of possession   Letter to Maurice Despinoy \u003ci\u003eTrait d’union \u003c\/i\u003e  On some cases treated with the Bini method  Indications of Bini therapy in the framework of institutional therapies  On an attempt at readaptation of a patient with morpheic epilepsy and series character disorders  Note on techniques of sleeping therapy with conditioning and electroencephalographic monitoring  \u003ci\u003eNotre Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eintroduction by Amina Azza Bekkat \u003c\/i\u003e Letter to Maurice Despinoy  Social therapy in a ward of Muslim men: methodological difficulties  Daily life in the douars  Introduction to sexuality disorders among North-African men  Current aspects of mental assistance in Algeria   Ethnopsychiatric considerations  Confessional behaviour in North Africa (1) Confessional behaviour in North Africa (2)  Letter to Maurice Despinoy Attitude of Maghrebin Muslims towards madness  The TAT with Muslim women, sociology of perception and imagination  Letter to the resident minister  The phenomenon of agitation in the psychiatric setting: general considerations, psychopathological meaning Biological study of the action of lithium citrate in manic fits  On a case of torsion spasm  First attempts with injectable meprobamate in hypochondriac states Day hospitalization in psychiatry: value and limits  Day hospitalization in psychiatry: value and limits. Second part: doctrinal considerations    Psychiatry in its meeting with society    \u003cb\u003ePart Three: Political writings \u003c\/b\u003e Introduction, \u003ci\u003eby Jean Khalfa\u003c\/i\u003e The Demoralized Foreign Legion  Algeria’s Independence: an everyday reality  National Independence: the only possible outcome Algeria and the French Crisis  The Algerian conflict and African anticolonialism   A democratic revolution  One more time: the reason for the prerequisite   Algerian revolutionary consciousness  Strategies of an Army with its Back to the Wall  The survivors of no man’s land   The testament of a ‘man of the left’  The rationale of ultracolonialism The Western World and the Fascist Experience in France  Gaullist Illusions  The Cross of a People  The Anti-Imperialist Movement’s Rise and the Retards of Pacification  The United Combat of African Countries  Richard Wright’s \u003ci\u003eWhite man, listen! \u003c\/i\u003e At Conakry, He Declares: ‘World Peace passes via National Independence’   Africa Accuses the West  The Stooges of Imperialism  Letter to Ali Shariati, \u003ci\u003epresentation by Sara Shariati\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart Four: Publishing Fanon (France and Italy, 1959-1971) \u003c\/b\u003e Introduction, \u003ci\u003eby Jean Khalfa \u003c\/i\u003e Correspondence between François Maspero and Frantz Fanon The Italian Fanon: unearthing a hidden editorial history, \u003ci\u003eby Neelam Srivastava \u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart Five: Frantz Fanon’s library \u003c\/b\u003e List established, presented and commented upon\u003ci\u003e by Jean Khalfa\u003c\/i\u003e Key dates  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867254305111,"sku":"9781474250214","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474250214.jpg?v=1722282441"},{"product_id":"postcolonial-grief-9781478002932","title":"Postcolonial Grief","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJinah Kim explores Asian and Asian American texts from 1945 to the present that mourn the loss of those killed by U.S. empire building and militarism in the Pacific, showing how the refusal to heal from imperial violence may help generate a transformative antiracist and decolonial politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Grief\u003c\/i\u003e offers a promising glimpse into what it might look like to pursue comparative or relational area studies through an anticolonial orientation.\" -- Emily Mitchell-Eaton * Society \u0026amp; Space *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Grief \u003c\/i\u003epowerfully uncovers overlapping histories of violence across the Pacific and carefully considers the relationship between grief, silencing, and reconciliation. 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Kim succeeds in exposing liberal nation-states’ silence about the violent past.” -- Jane Im * MELUS *\u003cbr\u003e“Guided by comparative, relational, and critical juxtaposing perspectives, \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Grief\u003c\/i\u003e powerfully names the interimperial complicity between U.S. and Japanese imperialisms in the Pacific and places the experiences and representations of Korean and Japanese diasporas in the Americas in conversation with other displaced and marginalized peoples.” -- Yên Lê Espiritu * Journal of World History *\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Grief\u003c\/i\u003e, Kim moves skillfully to the core of the affective economy underlying Asian American studies as a growing field of research and a site of justice and equality.... This is a bold, sympathetic, and well-informed book.” -- B. G. 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He has provided us with what you might call a manual of Said; a map of his thoughts and his positions, which, change as they did, could always be traced to a core set of ideas and drives and to do this without ever blunting Said’s subtlety or smudging the clarity of his ideas -- Ahdaf Soueif * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eBrennan – a former student of Said who is now a professor of comparative literature at the University of Minnesota – was given unprecedented access by Said’s family to the unpublished manuscripts … Places of Mind: a Life of Edward Said, which is published by Bloomsbury, sheds new light on how, after a lifetime of teaching literature, Said came to reject the novel in 1992 as a literary form * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eAn impressive and rigorous study * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eA remarkably unhindered and often incisive intellectual portrait of its subject * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eIn the first comprehensive biography of Said, Brennan, a former student, highlights the Palestinian scholar’s complexity, delivering a portrait of a thinker, activist and musician endowed with an unusually restless and protean intellect * New York Times, Books of the Week *\u003cbr\u003eAlmost 20 years after his death, one of Said’s former students, Timothy Brennan, has written an expansive new biography of Said’s life and ideas ... 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From Hong Kong to Wales, Hawaii to South Africa, Griffiths artfully guides us through intimate stories of people fighting over decades, often in vain, to protect their linguistic heritage and identities, stories that, when taken together, reveal an oft-unexplored aspect of the \"disasters wrought\" by colonialism, nationalism, and global inequality. Yet within Griffiths powerful critique of language destruction is a story of hope: a glimpse into a world in which language revitalization is possible. * Dr. Gina Anne Tam, Trinity University, San Antonio, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis commendable undertaking adds to the literature highlighting the constitutive role that centuries of imperial rule have played in the modern world. ... \u003ci\u003eSpeak not\u003c\/i\u003e ends with a powerful call to action. * International Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEPIGRAPH  INTRODUCTION  PART ONE: WELSH  1. Blue Books 2. Fire and Fury  3. 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Recent discussions around the \"rise of science-fiction and fantasy\" in Africa have led to a push-back, in which writers and scholars have suggested that science fiction and fantasy is not a new phenomenon in African literature, but that the deep past of the African world and its complex and mysterious foundations still register in burgeoning modern literary productions. Such influences can be seen in early twentieth-century writers such as D.O. Fagunwa's classic novel (1938) Ogboji Ode ninu Igbo Irunmale (The Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga), the mythopoeia of Elechi Amadi's The Concubine (1966) as well as the dystopian writing of Buchi Emecheta in The Rape of Shavi (1983). This volume shows this long tradition of speculative literature in examining African classics such as Kojo Laing's Woman of the Aeroplanes (1988) and the oeuvre of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. 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From Concrete Poetry in the 1960s through to Indigenous Literature in the 2010s, \u003ci\u003eAvant Canada\u003c\/i\u003e offers the most sweeping study of the literary avant-garde in Canada to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of academic essays and creative pieces takes an enthusiastic, engaged attitude to the unrolling of Canadian literature, starting with an intelligent introduction by editors Gregory Betts and Christian Bök [...] -- Derek Webster -- Canadian Notes and Queries, 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI INTRODUCTION\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 Gregory Betts and Christian Bök—\u003ci\u003eTime for the Avant-Garde in Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII PROLOGUE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Lisa Robertson—\u003ci\u003eThe Collective\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Liz Howard—\u003ci\u003eAgainst Assimilation I Rose into Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e III THE CENTENNIAL\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 Kristine Smitka—\u003ci\u003eThe Sublation of Obduracy: Nationalism and the Avant-Garde Marketing of \u003c\/i\u003eBeautiful Losers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 Stephen Cain—\u003ci\u003e\"\"A Vision in the UofT Stacks\"\": bpNichol in the Library\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e IV CONCRETE POLITICS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 Julia Polyck-O'Neill—\u003ci\u003eWords With(out) Syntax: Reconsidering Concrete Poetry: An Exhibition in Four Parts\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 Mike Borkent—\u003ci\u003ePost\/Avant Comics: bpNichol's Material Poetics and Comics Art Manifestos\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8 Eric Schmaltz—\u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to North Concrete: Identification Chart\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9 Kelly Mark—\u003ci\u003eNational and Time\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 Kaie Kellough—\u003ci\u003eContinents\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e V LANGUAGE WRITING\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11 Michael Roberson—\u003ci\u003eTransformation or Resistance: The Kootenay School of Writing in Context\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12 Kit Dobson—\u003ci\u003eA Poetics of Neoliberalism\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13 Dorothy Trujillo Lusk—\u003ci\u003eSleek Vinyl Drill\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14 Erín Moure—\u003ci\u003ePillage 12 (\"\"Anaximenes\"\")\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15 Donato Mancini—\u003ci\u003eIf Violence (Hey You)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e VI IDENTITY WRITING\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16 Myra Bloom—\u003ci\u003eMessy Confessions: Sheila Heti's \u003c\/i\u003eHow Should a Person Be?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17 Sonnet L'Abbé—\u003ci\u003eErasures from the Territories Called Canada: Sharpening the Gaze at White Backgrounds\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e18 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson—\u003ci\u003ecaribou ghosts \u0026amp; untold stories\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e19 Lee Maracle—\u003ci\u003eBobbi Lee, Indian Rebel\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20 Annharte—\u003ci\u003ecum cum how cum dat cums around even from behind\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e VII COPYLEFT POLITICS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e21 Katie L. Price—\u003ci\u003eA ≠ A: The Potential for a Pataphysical Poetics in Dan Farrell's The Inkblot Record\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e22 Darren Wershler—\u003ci\u003eEveryday Practice Before and After Conceptual Writing\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e23 Derek Beaulieu—\u003ci\u003eProse of the TransCanada\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24 Moez Surani—\u003ci\u003e1988\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e25 Dani Spinosa—\u003ci\u003eAnxious Influence: Reading John Cage Theoretically\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e VIII EPILOGUE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e26 André Alexis—\u003ci\u003eOn Amanda PL's Cancelled Exhibit\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e27 An Interview with Jordan Abel—\u003ci\u003eA Line Can Be Drawn\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e IX AFTER MATTER\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes and Acknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084303016279,"sku":"9781771123525","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"bourdieu-and-postcolonial-studies-9781781382967","title":"Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePostcolonial studies has taken a significant turn since 2000 from the post-structural focus on language and identity of the 1980s and 1990s to more materialist and sociological approaches. A key theorist in inspiring this innovative new scholarship has been Pierre Bourdieu. \u003ci\u003eBourdieu and Postcolonial Studies\u003c\/i\u003e shows the emergence of this strand of postcolonialism through collecting texts that pioneered this approach—by Graham Huggan, Chris Bongie, and Sarah Brouillette—as well as emerging scholarship that follows the path these critics have established. This Bourdieu-inspired work examines the institutions that structure the creation, dissemination, and reception of world literature; the foundational values of the field and its sometimes ambivalent relationship to the popular; and the ways concepts like habitus, cultural capital, consecration and anamnesis can be deployed in reading postcolonial texts. Topics include explorations of the institutions of the field such as the B.B.C.’s Caribbean voices program and the South African publishing industry; analysis of Bourdieu’s fieldwork in Algeria during the decolonization era; and comparisons between Bourdieu’s work and alternative versions of literary sociology such as Pascale Casanova’s and Franco Moretti’s. 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Its chapters represent a successful and illuminating synthesis of new and previously published material, theoretical engagement, and rigorous sociological analysis. At the same time, it invites readers to rethink their understanding of literary centers and margins and the flow of power between them. The volume’s authors are clearly aware of--and sensitive to--the travails, crises, and fragility of the field and, together, they make a persuasive and reassuring defense of the possibilities for resistance, opposition, and renewal in postcolonial literature and postcolonial studies.' \u003cbr\u003eJohn Strachan, \u003ci\u003eH-France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  1. Graham Huggan, Writing at the Margins: Postcolonialism, Exoticism, and the Politics of Cultural Value2. Chris Bongie, Exiles on Mainstream: Valuing the Popularity of Postcolonial Literature3. 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The science of how languages are acquired is becoming more advanced and the internet is bringing us new ways of teaching the next generation, however it is increasingly challenging for minority languages to survive in the face of a handful of hegemonic ‘super-tongues’.  In \u003ci\u003eSpeak Not\u003c\/i\u003e, James Griffiths reports from the frontlines of the battle to preserve minority languages, from his native Wales, Hawaii and indigenous American nations, to southern China and Hong Kong. He explores the revival of the Welsh language as a blueprint for how to ensure new generations are not robbed of their linguistic heritage, outlines how loss of indigenous languages is the direct result of colonialism and globalisation and examines how technology is both hindering and aiding the fight to prevent linguistic extinction.   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[a] stimulating work on the politics of language. -- Oliver Farry * LA Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eA lucid and timely account of languages under threat around the world…  illuminating in the extreme. -- Kang Hyun-kyung * The Korea Times *\u003cbr\u003eGriffiths is spot on: the survival of many languages—and perhaps the identities that go with them—depends on politics. * Asian Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeak Not\u003c\/i\u003e teases out both differences and similarities between [Griffiths’] examples, be that in the racial dimension or level of state violence in their oppression, with both sensitivity and passion. * Buzz *\u003cbr\u003eAs languages throughout the world continue to disappear at an alarming rate, James Griffiths' book could not be more relevant. Focusing mainly on the historical trajectories of Welsh, Hawaiian and Cantonese, Griffiths chronicles the contentious and often bloody struggles faced by these languages, weaving the strands of history, culture and linguistics into a fascinating and highly readable narrative. Languages die for many reasons, but the book's central message is that language demise is not merely the natural consequence of modernization and mass media, but is often the result of a calculated authoritarian strategy that sees a common language as a guarantor of political unity.  Speak Not is not merely a lament at the loss of the planet's linguistic diversity, but is also a positive record of how the courage and perseverance of beleaguered language communities can preserve and even revive their native tongues. * David Moser, author of \"A Billion Voices: China's Search for a Common Language\" *\u003cbr\u003eSpeak Not is a beautifully narrated and intensely smart global history of how languages are destroyed. From Hong Kong to Wales, Hawaii to South Africa, Griffiths artfully guides us through intimate stories of people fighting over decades, often in vain, to protect their linguistic heritage and identities, stories that, when taken together, reveal an oft-unexplored aspect of the \"disasters wrought\" by colonialism, nationalism, and global inequality. Yet within Griffiths powerful critique of language destruction is a story of hope: a glimpse into a world in which language revitalization is possible. * Dr. Gina Anne Tam, Trinity University, San Antonio, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis commendable undertaking adds to the literature highlighting the constitutive role that centuries of imperial rule have played in the modern world. ... \u003ci\u003eSpeak not\u003c\/i\u003e ends with a powerful call to action. * International Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEPIGRAPH  INTRODUCTION  PART ONE: WELSH  1. Blue Books 2. Fire and Fury  3. 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Using a feminist lens, this study examines neglected twentieth-century French texts by Black writers from Martinique and Guadeloupe, making the analysis of some of these texts available to readers of English for the first time. This interdisciplinary study of female and male authors reconsiders their political strategies and the critical role of French creoles in the creation of their own history. This approach recalibrates overly simplistic understandings of the victimization and alienation of French Caribbean people. In the systems of cultural production under consideration, sexuality constitutes an instrument of political and cultural consciousness in the chaotic period between 1924 and 1948. Studying sexual imagery constructed around female bodies demonstrates the significance of agency and the legacy of the past in cultural resistance and political awareness. \u003ci\u003eSex, Sea, and Self\u003c\/i\u003e particularly highlights Antillean women intellectuals’ theoretical contributions to Caribbean critical theory. Therefore, this analysis illuminates debates on the multifaceted and conflicted relationships between France and its overseas departments and expands ideas of nationhood in the Black Atlantic and the Americas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eSex, Sea and Self\u003c\/em\u003e brings cutting-edge critical analyses of overlooked texts to a broad scholarly audience. It is a timely and original contribution to French Caribbean studies.’ Anny Dominique Curtius, University of Iowa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Couti’s book is essential reading for students and scholars of French Caribbean literature from the early to mid twentieth century.’ Antonia Wimbush, \u003cem\u003eFrench Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Couti weaves a richly detailed historical tapestry… Her work offers example after example of how reading against the grain, and in pointed suspension of our own critical value judgments, can nuance and expand our understanding of transformative periods in postcolonial history, elucidating the diverse notions of citizenship and identity held by Black French subjects prior to and immediately following departmentalization.’ Kaiama L. Glover, \u003cem\u003eSmall Axe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction – \u003ci\u003eOn ne vous a pas oubliés\u003c\/i\u003e: Re-Scripting and (Re-)Gendering French Antillean Discourses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I – She Says: Nascent Black French Feminist Thought and the Theorization of “New” Epistomologies of Self from the Interwar Period to the Aftermath of Departmentalization\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 – The \u003ci\u003eDoudou \u003c\/i\u003eStrikes Back: Dissecting \u003ci\u003eDoudouisme \u003c\/i\u003eduring the Interwar Period\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 – Transatlantic Women’s Voices: The \u003ci\u003eDoudou \u003c\/i\u003eWrites Back\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 – Mayotte Capécia: From “I am Martinican” to “I am becoming French”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II – He Says: Black Male Recolonization of Space in the Tropics\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 – Deconstruction of the White Creole Myth: Creole Desire and the Flip Side of the Coin\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 – Whiteness and Masculinity Gone Wild: Impossible Redemption\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCoda – Who Speaks for Whom?\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084430647639,"sku":"9781800859944","price":93.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800859944.jpg?v=1725552140"},{"product_id":"decolonisations-of-literature-critical-practice-in-africa-and-brazil-after-1945-9781802070095","title":"Decolonisations of Literature: Critical Practice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book sets out to understand how the meaning of ‘literature’ was transformed in the Global South in the post-1945 era. It looks at institutional contexts in South Africa (mainly Johannesburg), Brazil (São Paulo), Senegal (Dakar) and Kenya (Nairobi), and engages with critical writing in English, Portuguese and French. Critics studied in the book include Antonio Candido, Tim Couzens, Isabel Hofmeyr, Es’kia Mphahlele, Léopold Senghor, Taban Lo Liyong and Ngugi wa Thiong’o. By reading these intellectuals of the Global South as producers of theory and practice in their own right, the book attempts to demonstrate the contingency of what is her called the worlding of the concept of literature. ‘Decolonisation’ itself is seen as a contingent, non-linear process that unfolds in a recursive dialogue with the past. In a bid to offer a more grounded approach to world literature, a key objective of this study is therefore to investigate the accumulation of temporalities in institutional histories of critical practice. To reach this objective, it engages the method of conceptual history as developed by Reinhart Koselleck and David Scott, demonstrating how the concept of ‘literature’ is resemanticised in ways that dialectically both challenge and consolidate literature as a concept and practice in post-colonised societies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDecolonisations of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e is wide-ranging, rigorous and highly readable. The framework of this study is refreshingly ambitious. Helgesson’s project ranges across Africa and Brazil to explore various twentieth-century attempts at decolonising literature. By making far-flung debates accessible to scholars working across different fields, this intervention will go a long way toward realising the promise of its title.” \u003cbr\u003eTobias Warner, University of California, Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eThe Worlding of ‘Literature’ in an Era of Decolonisation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1\u003cbr\u003eLiterature, Locality and Value in Apartheid South Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2\u003cbr\u003eA Latin American Counterpoint: Antonio Candido and the São Paulo School of Literary Criticism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3\u003cbr\u003eLéopold Senghor’s Performative Criticism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4\u003cbr\u003e‘…Our Cultural Take-off into the World …’: The Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Making of East African Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eNotes towards (and perhaps against) a Decolonial Conceptual History of Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084435956055,"sku":"9781802070095","price":40.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781802070095.jpg?v=1725552159"},{"product_id":"no-country-9780231151955","title":"No Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Country\u003c\/i\u003e argues for a rethinking of the genre of working-class literature. Sonali Perera expands our understanding of of working-class fiction by considering a range of international and non-canonical texts, identifying textual, political, and historical linkages often overlooked by Eurocentric and postcolonial scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSonali Perera's \u003ci\u003eNo Country\u003c\/i\u003e offers a powerful new theorizing of working-class literature in a global dimension. Gender inflections are given in unprecedented detail, through deeply learned and meticulously documented close readings of an astonishingly diversified collection of texts. Perera's readings of Marx are relevant to contemporary realities. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003eA timely, intellectually ambitious, and original piece of work. It hopes both to reinvigorate critical interest in a complex genre\/period category and, in the same movement, to provoke new thinking about such major categories as class, history, and literature itself. -- Ellen Rooney, Brown University\u003cbr\u003eCaught in the stampede toward globalism, literary scholars have overlooked the rich archives of working-class internationalism. Sonali Perera's study is a bracing corrective to this trend, putting South Asian voices in dialogue with transcontinental interlocutors. Inspired by Raymond Williams, \u003ci\u003eNo Country\u003c\/i\u003e leads us to a world literature that includes its many proletarian offshoots. -- Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University, author of \u003ci\u003eGuru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis carefully argued book will interest scholars of contemporary transnational literature, Marxist approaches to literature, and African and South Asian literary studies; to my mind, however, its greatest impact will be on a younger generation of postcolonial critics, including graduate students, whose education has been so saturated with the theoretical truisms of postcolonial theory in its high phase that it is very difficult to imagine fresh readings of new and older texts outside of them. With such as the case I suspect that many younger scholars would rather give up on postcolonial studies altogether, dismissing it, as some have already done, as an outdated theoretical paradigm. This book challenges that claim. -- Ulka Anjaria * Contemporary Literature *\u003cbr\u003ePerera's critical and careful reading of literature is a challenge to all those who read literature politically, and seek to grapple with the larger questions of equality and justice in our uneven and unequal world. -- Ahilan Kadirgamar * Himal Southasian Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eA welcome addition and a worthwhile read. * South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003ePerera acknowledges a global workforce of peasants and coolies and garment workers stretching from India, Sri Lanka, and Botswana to the US, forged between the heyday of proletarian literature in the 1930s and contemporary collective forms of writing. . . . Global workingclass writing is at once deeply local (found in micro struggles over land or ethnicity that impel collectivity) and international (vectored through worker solidarity movements and transnational flows of capital, goods, and workers); moreover, according to Perera, its force comes within and through its aporia and interruptions, not in its discursive totality. Thus, working-class culture theorizes new subjects as it expresses them in varied literary forms—novels, poems, magazines, stories, reports. But read together with Marx and Williams, Perera finds that working-class culture describes the broken contours of a discontinuous field: “‘interruption’ [is] a structural, not aberrational, aspect of a specifically feminist aesthetic and ethic.” Discontinuous and in motion, the new working-class writing, like proletarian revolution, “come[s] back ...to begin it afresh.” It travels. -- Paula Rabinowitz * American Literary History *\u003cbr\u003eWe can also see the future of Working-Class Studies in books like Sonali Perera’s \u003ci\u003eNo Country: Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e, which reads fiction from India, South Africa, and other colonialized regions of the English-speaking world alongside the work of Tillie Olsen. If nothing else, our increased awareness of the global working class should generate a more comparative, or at least a more contextualized, approach to the study of class. -- Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo * Journal of Working-Class Studies *\u003cbr\u003eGlobalisation makes novels (especially traditional novels) hard to write. With national working-class publics constantly constituted only to be broken apart, jobs (or bodies) shipped around the globe, neither the room of one’s own nor the time presents itself for texts modelled on the great working-class novels of the last two centuries. This is one of the strongest implicit arguments in Perera’s book – and, I think, an essential point. -- Nicholas Hengen Fox * Race and Class *\u003cbr\u003eThe book's primary enquiry is to examine how working-class writing can remain radical in a world of heightened globalisation where neoliberal capitalism pervades modes of reading and interpreting. In so doing, [Perera] aims to provide readings that challenge a sanitised view of world literature in which working-class positions remain marginalised and provincialised within a market-driven elite cosmopolitan literary culture. -- David Firth * Wasafiri *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Country \u003c\/i\u003ecould and should change the way that we conceptualize international working-class writing. -- Michelle M. Tokarczyk * Canadian Review of Comparative Literature *\u003cbr\u003eThrough her analysis . . . Perera explores how to rethink working class literature, and \u003ci\u003eNo Country\u003c\/i\u003e reevaluates the complex period genre category of working class writing. * Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: World Literature or Working-Class Literature in the Age of Globalization?\u003cbr\u003e1. Colonialism, Race, and Class: Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie as a Literary Representation of the Subaltern\u003cbr\u003e2. Postcolonial Sri Lanka and \"Black Struggles for Socialism\": Socialist Ethics in Ambalavaner Sivanandan's When Memory Dies\u003cbr\u003e3. Gender, Genre, and Globalization\u003cbr\u003e4. Socialized Labor and the Critique of Identity Politics: Bessie Head's A Question of Power\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Working-Class Writing and the Social Imagination\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400249123159,"sku":"9780231151955","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231151955.jpg?v=1730470183"},{"product_id":"degenerative-realism-novel-and-nation-in-twentyfirstcentury-france-literature-now-9780231185172","title":"Degenerative Realism  Novel and Nation in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining key novels by Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder, Aurélien Bellanger, Yann Moix, and other French writers, Christy Wampole identifies and critiques an emergent tendency toward “degenerative realism.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot just a brilliant study of reactionary hysteria in contemporary French fiction, Christy Wampole’s book has powerful insights into the world at large—a world that her writers see as slipping out of their control but that is shaped by their desperate need to assert rhetorical authority over it. An indispensable guide to our current toxic landscape. -- Joseph Litvak, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is timely in its intervention, and it offers a bracing portrait of the new degenerative realists. Wampole makes a persuasive case for the coherence and significance of this reactionary literary tendency. -- Lee Konstantinou, University of Maryland\u003cbr\u003eOne of the smartest books I’ve had the pleasure to read in recent years. Compelling, stimulating, far-reaching, and indispensable. \u003ci\u003eDegenerative Realism\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich, illuminating concept, plugged into the French national psyche while capturing the zeitgeist of our globalized economy, and full of potentialities for related fields. A must-read in a world caught between alternative facts and dire predictions. -- Philippe Met, University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003eIn the wake of the cultural and economic crises that hit France through the era of post-truth and social media, contemporary French literature invented a new form of realism, which Wampole calls “degenerative realism.” A challenging, stimulating book on a controversial literary trend. -- Alexandre Gefen, CNRS-Université Paris Sorbonne\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDegenerative Realism\u003c\/i\u003e is a thought-provoking and valuable piece of work. -- Gerald Prince * The French Review *\u003cbr\u003e[This book] marks a decisive, important theorization of a crucial–and deeply troubling–turn in contemporary French realism . . .  Wampole’s study will doubtless provide the benchmark for further developments in the studies of the works and trends discussed under the auspices of ‘Degenerative Realism.' -- Patrick Lyons * French Forum *\u003cbr\u003e[A] brilliant study . . . Wampole’s knowledge of the theory and context of declinist thought in France is second to none, and her readings in this vein are compelling. -- Douglas Morrey * French Studies *\u003cbr\u003eWampole’s readings are bold and creative, her prose lively and readable, her insights consistently profound and acute. -- Russell Williams * H-France *\u003cbr\u003eWampole’s \u003ci\u003eDegenerative Realism\u003c\/i\u003e uncomfortably but salutarily draws our attention to the underbelly of the literature of progress that scholars of French studies prefer to read. In carefully teasing out the relations and resonances between our contemporary political landscape and what is transpiring on the literary landscape, Wampole shows how it is degenerative realism, with its dark, mostly unsavory texts, that is best positioned to force us out of our own illusions into examining the fictions that we pass off as realities in our lives. Becoming attuned to degenerative realism cannot help but change the way we read everything else, and in this regard, Wampole has produced a work that is deeply generative. -- Annabel L. Kim * Novel: A Forum on Fiction *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. What Is Degenerative Realism?\u003cbr\u003e1. Demography and Survival in Twenty-First-Century France\u003cbr\u003e2. Endarkenment from the Minitel to the Internet\u003cbr\u003e3. Real-Time Realism, Part 1: Journalistic Immediacy\u003cbr\u003e4. 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Olga Slavnikova’s \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Couldn’t Die \u003c\/i\u003eis an instant classic of post-Soviet Russian literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDarkly sardonic . . . . oddly timely, for there are all sorts of understated hints about voter fraud, graft, payoffs, and the endless promises of politicians who have no intention of keeping them. It is also deftly constructed, portraying a world and a cast of characters who are caught between the orderly if drab world of old and the chaos of the 'new rich' in a putative democracy. . . . Slavnikova is a writer American readers will want to have more of. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003eRather than celebrate the crumbling of walls, Slavnikova’s novel shows  us all the Lenin statues still in place. It portrays a culture chained  to old realities, unable to establish a new understanding of itself.  This is a funhouse mirror worth looking into, especially in today’s  United States with its alternative facts, unpoetic assertions, and  morbid relationship with the past. -- Leeore Schnairsohn * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Couldn’t Die\u003c\/i\u003e, lucidly translated by Marian Schwartz, will resound with American readers. 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This book is a fine tool for continuing Joanna Russ's legacy.\" --\u003ci\u003eScience Fiction Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eJoanna Russ,\u003c\/i\u003e” a new survey of Russ’s work, the writer and critic Gwyneth Jones provides a helpful window into Russ’s early life.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important and compact new study. . . Russ was an unfairly neglected writer, and Jones’ introduction is a great place to start learning about her.\" --\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Essential reading for those interested in the history and evolution of sci-fi as a genre, and in the continued fight for diversity, inclusion, and visibility of sci-fi and pop culture more broadly.\" --\u003ci\u003ePopmatters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is time [Russ],was remembered and honored for her gallant, elegant and witty contribution.\" --\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This overview would be a particularly good introduction for undergraduates (or any interested reader) looking for a way into Russ’s career and into the gender-in-SF issues of her time.\" --\u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A rigorous biography of Russ’s mind. . . . Every writer must dream of someday having a reader who reads their work the way Gwyneth Jones reads Joanna Russ.\" --Fantasy \u0026amp; Science Fiction\u003cbr\u003e​\"Gwyneth Jones's study of Russ's life and work is important reading for anyone interested in feminism, science fiction, or terrific writing. With insight and warmth, she reveals Russ to us as a brilliant, impossible person and as a groundbreaking, uncompromising writer.\"--Julie Phillips, author of \u003ci\u003eJames Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Jones’s concise, thorough survey successfully traces the tensions and confluences between Russ’s various fields of work. Her positions as genre writer, academic, and feminist are in flux, in conversation; by creating illustrative juxtapositions within a chronological framework as well as integrating analysis with biographical detail, Jones offers insight and clarity into the difficulties that drove Russ’s career trajectory and eventual retirement from the SF field.\"--Brit Mandelo, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Wuz Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-Telling\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400446845271,"sku":"9780252042638","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252042638.jpg?v=1730470703"},{"product_id":"joanna-russ-9780252084478","title":"Joanna Russ","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExperimental, strange, and unabashedly feminist, Joanna Russ's groundbreaking science fiction grew out of a belief that the genre was ideal for expressing radical thought. Her essays and criticism, meanwhile, helped shape the field and still exercise a powerful influence in both SF and feminist literary studies.Award-winning author and critic Gwyneth Jones offers a new appraisal of Russ's work and ideas. After years working in male-dominated SF, Russ emerged in the late 1960s with Alyx, the uber-capable can-do heroine at the heart of Picnic on Paradise and other popular stories and books. Soon, Russ's fearless embrace of gender politics and life as an out lesbian made her a target for male outrage while feminist classics like The Female Man and The Two of Them took SF in innovative new directions. Jones also delves into Russ's longtime work as a critic of figures as diverse as Lovecraft and Cather, her foundational place in feminist fandom, important essays like Amor Vincit Foeminam, a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePopMatters\u003c\/i\u003e Best Non-Fiction Book of 2019\u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e 2019 Recommended Read\u003cbr\u003e Finalist, non-fiction category 2020 \u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e Awards, 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The primary and secondary bibliographies, along with the interviews and the through coverage of Russ's work that Jones offers make this volume one that libraries public, academic, and personal should possess, especially if they have an interest in feminist literature and\/or science fiction. . . . This book is a fine tool for continuing Joanna Russ's legacy.\" --\u003ci\u003eScience Fiction Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eJoanna Russ,\u003c\/i\u003e” a new survey of Russ’s work, the writer and critic Gwyneth Jones provides a helpful window into Russ’s early life.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important and compact new study. . . Russ was an unfairly neglected writer, and Jones’ introduction is a great place to start learning about her.\" --\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Essential reading for those interested in the history and evolution of sci-fi as a genre, and in the continued fight for diversity, inclusion, and visibility of sci-fi and pop culture more broadly.\" --\u003ci\u003ePopmatters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is time [Russ],was remembered and honored for her gallant, elegant and witty contribution.\" --\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This overview would be a particularly good introduction for undergraduates (or any interested reader) looking for a way into Russ’s career and into the gender-in-SF issues of her time.\" --\u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A rigorous biography of Russ’s mind. . . . Every writer must dream of someday having a reader who reads their work the way Gwyneth Jones reads Joanna Russ.\" --Fantasy \u0026amp; Science Fiction\u003cbr\u003e​\"Gwyneth Jones's study of Russ's life and work is important reading for anyone interested in feminism, science fiction, or terrific writing. With insight and warmth, she reveals Russ to us as a brilliant, impossible person and as a groundbreaking, uncompromising writer.\"--Julie Phillips, author of \u003ci\u003eJames Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Jones’s concise, thorough survey successfully traces the tensions and confluences between Russ’s various fields of work. Her positions as genre writer, academic, and feminist are in flux, in conversation; by creating illustrative juxtapositions within a chronological framework as well as integrating analysis with biographical detail, Jones offers insight and clarity into the difficulties that drove Russ’s career trajectory and eventual retirement from the SF field.\"--Brit Mandelo, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Wuz Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-Telling\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400513200471,"sku":"9780252084478","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252084478.jpg?v=1730470865"},{"product_id":"in-search-of-indian-english-history-politics-and-indigenisation-9780367352714","title":"In Search of Indian English History Politics and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book presents a historical account of the development of an acrolectal variety of the English language in colonial India. 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