Literary studies: postcolonial literature Books
Taylor & Francis Fieldwork of Empire 18401900
Book SynopsisFieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900: Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Expeditionary Literature examines the impact of non-western cultural, political, and social forces and agencies on the production of British expeditionary literature; it is a project of recovery. The book argues that such non-western impact was considerable, that it shaped the discursive and material dimensions of expeditionary literature, and that the impact extends to diverse materials from the expeditionary archive at a scale and depth that critics have previously not acknowledged. The focus of the study falls on Victorian expeditionary literature related to Africa, a continent of accelerating British imperial interest in the nineteenth century, but the study's findings have the potential to inform scholarship on European expeditionary, imperial, and colonial literature from a wide variety of periods and locations. The book's analysis is illustrative, not comprehensive. Each chapter targets intercTrade Review"The broader insights generated by this comparative approach are precisely what makes the book a must-read for historical geographers working on the his-tory of travel, exploration and empire."- Edward Armston-Sheret, Royal Holloway, London, UK, Journal of Historical Geography"It is rare to read a work as rigorously interdisciplinary in its methods and objectives as Adrian Wisnicki’s Fieldwork of Empire. Making skillful use of evidence and insights from African history (including oral history), anthropology, cartography, historical geography, and literature, this is a work that defies disciplinary categorization. Although the author holds a PhD in English, teaches in an English department, and addresses issues related to ‘expeditionary literature’, as announced in the subtitle, he has written a book that is relevant and revealing to scholars in a variety of fields."- Dane Kennedy, Journal of Victorian Culture 25:3 (July 2020): 468-70"This book offers precisely the kind of dense, complex, intercultural reading of Victorian travelers, their journeys, and their literary and cartographic productions that scholars of travel writing on Africa have envisioned since the boom in such criticism began in the late 1980s and early 1990s."-- Laura Franey, Review 19 (2020) "Wisnicki offers a clear, capacious, meticulously researched and supported argument that shows not only the strong impress of European epistemologies upon the African continent, but also the unexpected (and sometimes highly determinative) influence of Indigenous African forces upon European mapping of and discourse about Central Africa."- John McBratney, Victorian Studies 62:3 (Spr. 2020)"Fieldwork of Empire complements new studies of indigenous interactions with and responses to the colonial imposition, which are increasingly highlighting the global, national and local agencies, participants and audiences which were integral to the production of identities, spaces, material cultures, archives and "knowledge" in and of Africa during the nineteenth century. [...] Wisnicki manages to weave together an insightful tapestry of the human influences that contributed to the making of Victorian expeditionary literature of Africa, illuminating the neglected, but the fundamental role of local, non‐Western individuals and populations in dynamic processes of exchange and contestation."- Jared McDonald, Historia 64:2 (2019)"Fieldwork of Empire therefore provides powerful arguments in favour of the need to ground new studies of Victorian exploration in local contexts, to the extent that the relationship in the field between British explorers and "subalterns" can be reconsidered and general assumptions about intercultural encounters can be challenged."- Guillaume Didier, Société d’Étude de la Littérature de Voyage du Monde Anglophone (2019)Table of ContentsEntry
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism examines the global history of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination from ancient times to the present day. It explores the ways in which new polities were established in freshly discovered âNew Worldsâ, and covers the history of many countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Liberia, Algeria, Canada, and the USA.Chronologically as well as geographically wide-reaching, this volume focuses on an extensive array of topics and regions ranging from settler colonialism in the Neo-Assyrian and Roman empires, to relationships between indigenes and newcomers in New Spain and the early Mexican republic, to the settler-dominated polities of Africa during the twentieth century. Its twenty-nine inter-disciplinary chapters focus on single colonies or on regional developments that straddle the borders of present-day states, on successful settlements that would go on to become powerful settler nations, on failed settler colonies, and on the historiographies of these experiences.Taking a fundamentally international approach to the topic, this book analyses the varied experiences of settler colonialism in countries around the world. With a synthesizing yet original introduction, this is a landmark contribution to the emerging field of settler colonial studies and will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the global history of imperialism and colonialism.Trade Review"This volume shows how the deep history of settler colonialism has shaped our world today. As settlers move to new lands, the result is almost always unsettling. We need studies like this to better appreciate the ongoing consequences of our shared colonial legacies."Coel Kirkby, University of Melbourne, Australia"This volume shows how the deep history of settler colonialism has shaped our world today. As settlers move to new lands, the result is almost always unsettling. We need studies like this to better appreciate the ongoing consequences of our shared colonial legacies."Coel Kirkby, University of Melbourne, Australia"The essays in this work as a collection and as individual studies are a useful and thought-provoking addition to the topic of settler colonialism that can shed light on it as a global phenomenon that is at once universal and peculiar to particular places. What is more, they offer a challenge to the field of global history to utilize settler colonialism as a lens or dispose of it as too broad, ineffective, or too ill-defined to be useful."Jack Seitz is a PhD Candidate in the Rural, Agricultural, Technological, and Environmental History program at Iowa State University, World History ConnectedTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of contributorsIntroduction: settler colonialism as a distinct mode of dominationPART ISettler colonialism in the ‘Old WorldIntroduction to Part I1 – Settler colonialism from the Neo-Assyrians to the Romans2 – Settler colonialism in ancient Israel3 – Mediterranean and Atlantic settler colonialism from the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries4 - Settler colonialism in Ireland from the English conquest to the nineteenth century5 - Northern Ireland and settler colonialism to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998PART IIThe AmericasIntroduction to Part II6 - Colonies of settlement and settler colonialism in Northeastern North America, 1450-18507 – Atlantic North America from contact to the late nineteenth century8 - Settler colonialism in New Spain and the early Mexican republic9 - Northwestern North America (Canadian West) to 190010 - Settler colonialism in postcolonial Latin America11 - Settler colonialism and the consolidation of Canada in the twentieth century12 - Adaptation, resistance, and representation in the modern US settler statePART IIIAfricaIntroduction to Part III13 - Settler colonialism in South Africa, 1652–189914 - French Algeria, 1830-196215 - Americo Liberia as a settler society16 - Settler colonialism in Kenya, 1880-195017 - Settler rule in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-197918 - The Italian fascist settler empire in Ethiopia, 1936-194119 - White settler politics and Euro-African nationalism in Angola, 1945-197520 - Settler colonialism in South Africa: land, labour, and transformation, 1880-2015PART IV AsiaIntroduction to Part IV21 – Russian settler colonialism22 – Settler colonialism in the making of Japan’s Hokkaidō23 - Theorizing Zionist settler colonialism in Palestine24 - A dying settler colonialism: Israel and the Palestinians after 1948PART VAustralasiaIntroduction to Part V25 - Australian settler colonialism over the long nineteenth century: new insights into history, gender and biopolitics26 - Settler colonialism in New Zealand, 1840-190727 - Settler colonialism in New Caledonia, 1853 to the present28 - Settler Australia in the twentieth century29 - Settler colonialism in twentieth-century New ZealandIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Postcolonial Exotic Marketing the Margins
Book SynopsisGraham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis.Table of ContentsPreface, Introduction: writing at the margins: postcolonialism, exoticism and the politics of cultural value, 1. African literature and the anthropological exotic, 2. Consuming India, 3. Staged marginalities: Rushdie, Naipaul, Kureishi, 4. Prizing otherness: a short history of the Booker, 5. Exoticism, ethnicity and the multicultural fallacy, 6. Ethnic autobiography and the cult of authenticity, 7. Transformations of the tourist gaze: Asia in recent Canadian and Australian fiction, 8. Margaret Atwood, Inc., or, some thoughts on literary celebrity, Conclusion: thinking at the margins: postcolonial studies at the millennium, Notes, Bibliography, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Writing Sri Lanka Literature Resistance the
Book SynopsisFocusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced both the production and critical reception of texts, Salgado presents a detailed analysis of eight leading Sri Lankan writers - Michael Ondaatje, Romesh Gunasekera, Shyam Selvadurai, A. Sivanandan, Jean Arasanayagam, Carl Muller, James Goonewardene and Punyakante Wijenaike to rigorously challenge the theoretical, cultural and political assumptions that pit insider' against outsider', resident' against migrant' and the authentic' against the alien'. By interrogating the discourses of territoriality and boundary marking that have come into prominence since the start of the civil war, Salgado works to define a more nuanced and sensitive critical framework that actively reclaims marginalized voices and draws upon recent studies in migration and the diaspora to reconfigure the Sri Lankan critical terrain.Trade Review"This is the most significant work on Sri Lankan English-language literature to date, combining impressive scholarship with perceptive analysis, nuanced evaluation and carefully balanced comment." – Confluence "Represents the most stimulating, perceptive and intellectually rigorous book-length study to date of this critically under-researched area of postcolonial literatures in English." - Interventions"...an excellent and much-needed contribution – well-written, insightful, and thorough." - Chelva Kanaganayakam, University of Toronto"Beautifully argued, intricately composed." --Meena Alexander, WasafiriTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction Part 1. 1. Literature and Territoriality: Boundary Marking as a Critical Paradigm Part 2 2. Allegorical Islands 3. Spectral Spaces 4. Fugitive Selves 5. Genealogical Maps Part 3 6. Border Dialogues 7. Place as Palimpsest 8. Past Paradise 9. Conclusion: Destinations Notes. Select Bibliography. Index
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Edinburgh University Press Postcolonial Literature
Book SynopsisIntroduces postcolonial literary studies through close readings of a wide range of fiction and poetry
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Cambridge University Press Decolonial Deep Mapping
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Cambridge University Press Ukrainian Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Zadie Smith and Postcolonial Trauma
Book SynopsisThis monograph analyses Zadie Smith's White Teeth, On Beauty, NW, The Embassy of Cambodia, and Swing Time as trauma fictions that reveal the social, cultural, historical, and political facets of trauma. Starting with Smith's humorous critique of psychoanalysis and her definition of original trauma, this volume explores Smith's challenge of Western theories of trauma and coping, and how her narratives expose the insidiousness of (post)colonial suffering and unbelonging. This book then explores transgenerational trauma, the tensions between remembering and forgetting, multidirectional memory, and the possibilities of the ambiguities and contradictions of the postcolonial and diasporic characters Smith depicts. This analysis discloses Smith's effort to ethically redefine trauma theory from a postcolonial and decolonial standpoint, reiterates the need to acknowledge and work through colonial histories and postcolonial forms of oppression, and crTable of ContentsIntroduction: Postcolonial Traumas: Theories and NarrativesChapter 1. Origins, Original Trauma, and Transgenerational Trauma: The Obsessions and Revelations of HistoryChapter 2. The Erasure of Origins against Original Trauma: The Ambivalences of Forgetting and Remembering in White Teeth, On Beauty, and NWChapter 3. Multiple Origins and Multidirectional Memory: Dialogic Histories of Slavery in The Embassy of Cambodia and Swing TimeConclusion: The Forms, Complexities, and Contradictions of Postcolonial Trauma
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race
Book SynopsisEthnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narrative, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of post-classical narratology and context-oriented approaches in race, ethnic, and cultural studies, the contributions to this edited volume interrogate the complex and varied ways in which ethnic American authors use narrative form to engage readers in issues related to race and ethnicity, along with other important identity markers such as class, religion, gender, and sexuality. Importantly, the book also explores how paying attention to the formal features of ethnic American literatures changes our under-standing of narrative theory and how narrative theories can help us to think about author functions and race. The international and diverse group of contributors includes top scholars in narrative theory and in race and ethnic studies, and the texts they analyze concern a wide variety of topics,Table of ContentsIntroduction: Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American LiteraturesAlexa Weik von MossnerPART 1: Narrating Race and Ethnicity across Time and Space Indigenous Time / Indigenous Narratives: The Political Implications of Non-Linear Time in Contemporary Native Fiction James J. Donahue Time(s) of Race: Narrative Temporalities, Epistemic Storytelling, and the Human Species in Ted Chiang Matthias Klestil Polychronic Narration, Trauma, Disenfranchised Grief, and Mario Alberto Zambrano’s Lotería Mario Grill Whole New Worlds: An Exploration of Narrative Strategies Used in Afrodiasporic Speculative Fiction Marlene D. Allen Ahmed PART 2: Haunting Memories: Narrative, Race, and Emotion Emotions that Haunt: Attachment Relations in Lan Samantha Chang’s Fiction W. Michelle Wang Race, Trauma, and the Emotional Legacies of Slavery in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing Marijana Mikić "There Were Strands of Darker Stories": Reading Third-Generation Holocaust Literature as Midrash Stella Setka Stories, Love, and Baklava: Narrating Food in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Culinary Memoirs Alexa Weik von Mossner PART 3: Race, Ethnicity, and Paratexts: Genre Structures and Author Functions Healing Narratives: Historical Representations in Latinx Young Adult Literature Elizabeth Garcia Blood and Soil: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony Patrick Colm Hogan Metaparatextual Satire in Percival Everett’s The Book of Training and Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice Derek C. Maus Author Functions, Literary Functions, and Racial Representations or What We Talk about When We Talk about Diversifying Narrative Studies Jennifer Ho
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Taylor & Francis Frontiers of South Asian Culture
Book SynopsisThis book is the first of its kind to significantly concentrate on trans-nation, transnationalism and its dialogue with various nationalisms in South Asia. Taking the absence of discussion on transnationalism in South Asia as a conspicuous lacuna as well as a point of intervention, this book pushes the boundaries of scholarship further by organizing a dialogue between the nation-state and many nationalisms and the emergent method of transnationalism. It opens itself up for many cross-border movements, formulating the trans-South Asian discursive exchange necessitated by contemporary, theoretical upheavals. It looks at such exchanges through the prisms of literature and cinema and traces the many modes of engagement that exist between some of the globally dominant literary and cinematic forms, trying to locate these engagements and negotiations across three geopolitical formations and locations of culture, namely region, nation and trans-nation.Trade Review"Frontiers of South Asian Culture: Nation, Trans-Nation and Beyond is a fascinating collection of essays on postcolonial literature, film, and culture. The collection covers a broad geographic range — and it also incorporates recent theoretical approaches such as ecocriticism, humour studies, food studies, and graphic art criticism."Donna L. Potts, Professor and Chair, Department of English, Washington State University, Pullman, USA"A thoroughly engaging and timely intervention in the debates on nationhood, globalism, and regional cultures. Moving consciously away from existing frameworks, Frontiers of South Asian Culture: Nation, Trans-Nation and Beyond offers new insight and provocations on the significance of transnationalism as both a context and methodological approach to literature and cinema. The book’s great value lies in its marshalling of original material and reflections to shed light on the complex entanglements found in India's diverse territorial imaginations."Ranjani Mazumdar, Professor of Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India"In the wake of decolonisation, the process of national identity formation in the independent countries of South Asia inhibited mutual understanding and discouraged collective scrutiny of the human condition. With its emphasis on the entangled cultural and political histories of South Asian locations, regions, and nations, Frontiers of South Asian Culture: Nation, Trans-Nation and Beyond realises a commendable academic milestone." Senath Walter Perera, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka"Frontiers of South Asian Culture: Nation, Trans-Nation and Beyond by Parichay Patra and Amitendu Bhattacharya offers a rich palette of essays that look at a range of cultural practices and texts to flesh out imaginaries of the nation and beyond. Working along literary and cinematic registers, the edited collection confronts the challenges of understanding borders and boundaries, yielding valuable insight on the conundrums of our contemporary existence."Lakshmi Subramanian, Formerly Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India"This is an eclectic collection of scholarly essays that together map the regional imaginary of "South Asia", considering literature and cinema, sometimes regarded as stand-alone media forms, sometimes as driving each other. We see how the trans/national is configured in specific regional locales — Sri Lanka, Goa, Assam, Pondicherry and Bangladesh, besides West Bengal. At the same time, the essays look at flows — of rivers, trains, ideas, and people as they traverse across spaces. This unique volume combines the scholarship of the young as well as the established in the fields of comparative/literary studies and film studies.Nikhila H., Professor, Department of Film Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India."This capacious volume richly extends the very idea of the frontier and space-time — artistically, as well as politically. The comparative framework of the regional-national frees us from the narrow precincts of nationhood and the detached local as well as from the ersatz universality of the global. The porosity of encountering cultural seepage is a tantalizing possibility. Through the lens of the transnational, the volume grapples with the deeper questions of tradition and modernity, style and meaning, space and temporality. An abundant experience."Prasanta Chakravarty, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi, India Table of ContentsList of ContributorsIntroduction- Parichay Patra and Amitendu BhattacharyaPart I: Nation and Its Porous FrontiersChapter 1: The Politics of Spectatorship: Textual Traditions, Cinematograph and the Moral Dilemma of the Natives of Assam in British India (1900–1935)-Kaushik Thakur BhuyanChapter 2: Then and Now: Nation and Transnational Identity in Jyoti Prasad Agarwala’s Joymati (1935) and Jahnu Barua’s Ajeyo (2014)- Asha Kuthari ChaudhuriChapter 3 Humour and Cinema: A Study of Language Politics in Assam-Simona Sarma and Sukrity GogoiChapter 4: The Transnational City of Pondicherry: Elite Indian Identity Crisis and Cortes’ Receding French Image-Andrea RodriguesChapter 5: Cartography of Goa: Analysis of the Tangible Loci of Culture in the Sketches of Mario Miranda - Amrita Biswas Part II: Nation, Cultural Histories, Trans-Nation: The Cinematic Imagi-NationChapter 6: That Which Flows- Moinak BiswasChapter 7: Ray at Large: Cinema In and Out of Literature in Region, Nation, Transnation- Kaushik BhaumikChapter 8: Beckett and Avikunthak: Lineages of the Avant-Garde-Brinda BoseChapter 9: The Partitioning of Bengal, 1971 and National Identity Formation in Tanvir Mokammel’s Films- Fakrul AlamPart III: Nation, Cultural Histories, Trans-Nation: The Literary Imagi-NationChapter 10: Region, Nation, Border: Histories of Land and Water- Supriya ChaudhuriChapter 11: Travelling On: Bengali and English Literatures of Transnational Worlding- Arka ChattopadhyayChapter 12: Capitalist World-Ecology, Food Crisis, and Embodied Aesthetics in in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve- Sourit BhattacharyaChapter 13: Modernity on Wheels: Reading Trains as Sites of Encounter and Disaster - Anuparna MukherjeeChapter 14: "The lights cut out quickly": Nation, Nationalism and City-lit during 1980–1990s- Dibyakusum RayPart IV: South Asian Transactions: Between Subcontinental Flow and Transnational FrictionsChapter 15: Tagorean Cosmopolitanism and Ceylonic Indigenization Movement- Saman M. Kariyakarawane and S. S. A. SenevirathneChapter 16: From Villain to Superhero: Reimaginings of Ravana in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Sri Lanka- Kanchuka DharmasiriIndex
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Taylor & Francis The Migrant in Arab Literature
Book SynopsisThis edited book offers a collection of fresh and critical essays that explore the representation of the migrant subject in modern and contemporary Arabic literature and discuss its role in shaping new forms of transcultural and transnational identities. The selection of essays in this volume offers a set of new insights on a cluster of tropes: self-discovery, alienation, nostalgia, transmission and translation of knowledge, sense of exile, reconfiguration of the relationship with the past and the identity, and the building of transnational identity. A coherent yet multi-faceted narrative of micro-stories and of transcultural and transnational Arab identities will emerge from the essays: the volume aims at reversing the traditional perspective according to which a migrant subject is a non-political actor.In contrast to many books about migration and literature, this one explores how the migrant subject becomes a specific literary trope, a catalyst of modern alienation, displa
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Taylor & Francis Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian
Book SynopsisThis book presents an innovative and imaginative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis.The Australian continent has seen significant, rapid changes to its cultures and land-use from the impact of British colonial rule, yet there is a rich history of Indigenous land-ethics and cosmological thought. By using the age-old idea of cosmos'the order of the worldto foreground ideas of a good order and chaos, reciprocity and more-than-human agency, this book interrogates the Anthropocene in Australia, focusing on notions of colonisation, farming, mining, bioethics, technology, environmental justice and sovereignty. It offers cosmological readings' of a diverse range of authorsIndigenous and non-Indigenousas a challenge to the Anthropocene's decline-narrative. As a result, it reactivates cosmos' as an ethical vision and a transculturally important counter-concept to the Anthropocene. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell argues that the arts Trade Review"Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell’s Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature is an important new work of Australian ecocriticism. Drawing on recent work on literature and the Anthropocene, Bartha-Mitchell’s book offers a model for reading Australian literature cosmologically. Bartha-Mitchell’s readings emphasise interconnections between beings, agencies and systems that work against the traditional humanistic focus of western prose fiction and offer a critical new dimension to Australian literary studies."Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia"An innovative intervention in the environmental humanities, this thought-provoking study of contemporary Australian literature makes a powerful case for the generative concept of cosmos and, more broadly, for the importance of literary studies within the wider field." Diletta De Cristofaro, Assistant Professor, Northumbria University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Literary Cosmology in the Anthropocene Part 1: CONTEXT / THEORY: From Chaos to Cosmos to Anthropocene? 1. Cosmos within and beyond the Environmental Humanities 2. Cosmos Today: Modern, Transcultural, (Dis)enchanted Part 2: COLONISATION / EXPLOITATION: Reimagining Agriculture and Extraction 3. Remembering the Language of Colonial Agriculture: Carrie Tiffany’s Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living 4. Resisting Mining and Regenerating Country through the Wiradjuri Language: Tara June Winch’s The Yield Part 3: BIOETHICS / TECHNOLOGY: Revising Human Mastery Narratives 5. Testing the Limits of Apocalyptic Climate Fiction: Briohny Doyle’s The Island Will Sink 6. Reconsidering Evolution and Queering Environmentalism: Ellen van Neerven’s “Water” Part 4: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE / CUSTODIANSHIP: Towards Sovereign Cosmopolitics 7. Remembering the Opposite of Oppression: Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains 8. Aquatious Mobilisation of Indigenous Sovereignty: Melissa Lucashenko’s Too Much Lip Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Allegories of Neoliberalism
Book SynopsisSimultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary South Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalism's forms of appearance.This book offers critical discussions on the important works of Akhtaruzzaman Elias, Amitav Ghosh, Aravind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, H. M. Naqvi, Mohsin Hamid, Nasreen Jahan, Samrat Upadhyay, and other writers from South Asia and South Asian diaspora.It also advances a re-reading of Karl Marx's Capital through the themes and tropes of literatureone that looks into literary representations of commoditization, monetization, class exploitation, uneven spatial relationship, financialization, and ecological devastation through the lens of the German revolutionary's critique of capitalism.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Allegorizing Neoliberalism2. "Kanna" and the Monetization of Affect 3. The White Tiger and the Subsumption of the Rural4. Home Boy, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the "Empire of Finance" 5. Conclusion: In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Narrative Performances of Mothering in South
Book SynopsisExamining a range of South Asian Anglophone diasporic fiction and poetry, this monograph opens a new dialogue between diaspora studies and gender studies. It shows how discourses of diaspora benefit from re-examining their own critical relation to concepts of the maternal and the motherland. Rather than considering maternity as a fixed or naturally given category, it challenges essentialist conceptions and explores mothering as a performative practice which actively produces discursive meaning. This innovative approach also involves an investigation of central metaphors in nationalist and diasporic rhetorics, bringing critical attention to the strategies they employ and the unique aesthetic forms they produce. Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations 1. Introduction: more than one mother 1.1 Gender and nation 1.2 Theories of the maternal 1.3 Theories of diaspora 1.4 Outline of chapters 2. Historical performances: reading Mother India in nationalist discourse and Kipling 2.1 Bharat Mata 2.1.1 Vande Mataram 2.1.2 The mother-as-metaphor 2.1.3 Condensation and transaction 2.1.4 Metaphorical performances 2.2 Kipling’s imperial Mother India 2.2.1 Imperial doublings 2.2.2 The native-born diaspora 3. Citational performances: "Talking major mother country" in Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children3.1 Diasporic maternal practices 3.2 Victorian Mothers3.3 The performance of mothering 3.4 ‘De-condensing’ Mother India 3.5 Diasporic bastards 4. Exile performances: Pakistani mother-daughter relationships in Bapsi Sidhwa’sCracking India and Sara Suleri’s Meatless Days. 4.1 Sidhwa’s matricide 4.1.1 Allegorical readings 4.1.2 Hired Mother India 4.2 Suleri’s mother elegy 4.2.1 A poetics of unbelonging 4.2.2 Mother(ing)land 4.2.3 Performances of abjection 5. Maternal performances: mother tongues in Ravinder Randhawa’s A Wicked OldWoman and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane 5.1 Performing the mother tongue 5.2 A wicked old mother 5.3 Herethics and diasporic mothering 5.4 Diasporic seas 5.5 Ali’s coming-of-agency 6. Outlook and conclusion: diasporic maternal aesthetics 6.1 Indo-Caribbean labours 6.2 Retrospects and prospects 7. Appendix8. Works cited 9. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd World Literature as Discovery
Book SynopsisThe rise of world literature is the most noticeable phenomenon in literary studies in the twenty-first century. However, truly well-known and globally circulating works are all canonical works of European or Western literature, while non-European and even minor European literatures remain largely unknown beyond their culture of origin. World Literature as Discovery: Expanding the World Literary Canon argues that world literature for our time must go beyond Eurocentrism and expand the canon to include great works from non-European and minor European literatures. As much of the world's literature remains untranslated and unknown, the expansion will be an exciting process of discovery. By discussing fundamental questions around canon, circulation, aesthetic values, translation, cosmopolitanism, and the literary universal, Zhang Longxi proposes a new and liberating concept of world literature that will shape world literature worthy of its name. This book speaks foTrade Review"Drawing on his deep knowledge of both Chinese and European literary traditions, Zhang Longxi advances a bracing vision of a non-Eurocentric canon of world literature, one that would build on the self-understandings of the world’s literary cultures rather than imposing Western values and concerns on them. World Literature as Discovery proposes both an expansive discovery of the world’s distinctive traditions and a rediscovery of the aesthetic pleasures that great works offer their readers." David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, USA, author of What Is World Literature? and Comparing the Literatures "A brilliant reconceptualization of world literature by a scholar that over the past 40 years has been one of the most active, erudite, and at the same time common sensical contributors to the field. Arguing the need for a wider inclusion of non-Western works in world literature while at the same time refusing to side-step the issues of translation and value judgments, Zhang’s volume is a must-read for all scholars and students of literature wanting to keep abreast of what really is at stake in our fast-changing world." Theo D’haen, Professor Emeritus of English, KU Leuven, Belgium, author of World Literature in an Age of Geopolitics"Zhang’s World Literature as Discovery is bound to invigorate the current debate on the importance of value judgements in the discourse of world literature. His is an impassioned and erudite intervention that urges us to reopen the question of the canon and argues for a truly plural world literature that draws its own sustainability from a body of texts far beyond the Western tradition." Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London, UK, author of The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond"Is it possible to have a worldly conversation about literary value – to free discussions of literary merit from their Eurocentric confines and to open our minds to multiple standards of literary judgement? The question is an important one for readers in our time, and Zhang Longxi, equally at home in the European and Chinese traditions (and beyond) is just the scholar to lead us towards an answer." Alexander Beecroft, Jessie Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of Foreign Languages, University of South Carolina, USA, author of An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present DayTable of ContentsPreface Goethe and Weltliteratur The Return to (World) Literature Circulation and Value Judgment Canon and the Classic World Literature as Discoveries Language, (Un)translatability and World Literature The Challenge of Writing a World Literary History Literary Universals The Mirror of Enigma and the Mirror of Magic Potion and Poison: Chinese and Shakespearean Dialectics Conclusion: World Literature and Cosmopolitanism BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Milestones in African Literature
Book SynopsisMilestones in African Literature offers an accessible guide to ten key moments in African literature. It traces literature in Africa through forms and genres, as well as social and political changes.Toyin Falola embraces the richness of African literature, and considers the oral tradition, pre-colonial literature, apartheid, print media and digital literature, postcolonialism, and migration literature. He explores the realities of African people by drawing from and highlighting peoples' convictions, spirituality, and pasts. The book reveals African literature's capacity to convey cultural, social, and political messages through storytelling, while depicting the social structures and cultural norms that shape these experiences through the examination of perspectives and literary works of African authors.Milestones in African Literature is the ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate students interested in African literatures. It will also be invaluabl
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Taylor & Francis Refractive Realisms
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Cambridge University Press Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature
Book SynopsisThis book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric of tragedy. He draws from many key works Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Medea, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear to establish the main contours of tragedy. 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.Trade Review'… [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'The book's connections to the fields of literature, philosophy, and history are apparent, as is its layered, meticulously crafted thesis. Relevant and applicable to a variety of critical reassessments in various fields within the humanities. Recommended.' J. Neal, Choice'The contribution of Ato Quayson's book is undoubtedly found in the dialogue and the pooling of plural knowledge, reporting on the suffering and ethnic discriminations of which colonized populations have been victims.' Jean Zaganiaris, Anabases (translated from French)JeanTable of Contents1. Introduction. Tragedy and the maze of moments; 2. Shakespeare: Ethical cosmopolitanism and Shakespeare's Othello; 3. Chinua Achebe: History and the conscription to colonial modernity in Chinua Achebe's rural novels; 4. Wole Soyinka: Ritual dramaturgy and the social imaginary in Wole Soyinka's tragic theatre; 5. Tayeb Salih: Archetypes, self-authorship, and melancholia: Tayeb Salih's Seasons of Migration to the North; 6. Toni Morrison: Form, freedom and ethical choice in Toni Morrison's Beloved; 7. J. M. Coetzee: On moral residue and the affliction of second thoughts: J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians; 8. Arundhati Roy: Enigmatic variations, language games and the arrested bildungsroman: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things; 9. Samuel Beckett: Distressed embodiment and the burdens of boredom: Samuel Beckett's Postcolonialism; 10. Conclusion: Postcolonial tragedy and the question of method.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures
Book SynopsisPostcolonial Studies is more often found looking back at the past, but in this brand new book, Bill Ashcroft looks to the future and the irrepressible demands of utopia. The concept of utopia whether playful satire or a serious proposal for an ideal community is examined in relation to the postcolonial and the communities with which it engages. Studying a very broad range of literature, poetry and art, with chapters focussing on specific regions Africa, India, Chicano, Caribbean and Pacific this book is written in a clear and engaging prose which make it accessible to undergraduates as well as academics. This important book speaks to the past and future of postcolonial scholarship.Table of Contents1. Utopia, Travel and Empire 2. Heimat Anticipation and Postcolonial Literatures 3. The Ambiguous Necessity of Utopia 4. Remembering the Future: Time and Utopia in African Literature 5. Beyond the Nation-State 6. Writing and Re-Writing India 7. Borderland Heterotopia: Aztlan and the Chicano Nation 8. Archipelago of Dreams: Utopianism in Caribbean Literature 9. Oceanic Hope: Utopianism in the Pacific 10. Settler Colony Utopianism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary
Book SynopsisThis book considers how contemporary British children's books engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years, and how they resonate with the current preoccupations and tastes of the white mainstream British reading public. A central assumption of this volume is that Britain's imperial past continues to play a key role in its representations of race, identity, and history. The insistent inclusion of questions relating to colonialism and power structures in recent children's novels exposes the complexities and contradictions surrounding the fictional treatment of race relations and ethnicity.Postcolonial children's literature in Britain has been inherently ambivalent since its cautious beginnings: it is both transgressive and authorizing, both undercutting and excluding. Grzegorczyk considers the ways in which children's fictions have worked with and against particular ideologies of race. The texts analyzed in this collection portray ethnic minorities as Trade Review"...the book is a successful survey, deftly bringing together texts that deserve much more attention than they are receiving, both in terms of scholarship and children’s literature courses, which too often bear the signs of an overly rigid adherence to prevailing definitions of what counts as children’s literature."- Heather Snell, University of Winnipeg, in Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 9.1 (2017)Table of Contents1. The Politics of Children’s Literature 2. The Empire Within: Migrant and Post-Migrant Coming-of-Age Novels 3. Rewriting Colonial Histories in Historical Fictions For the Young: From Below and Above 4. "Empires of the Mind": Intersections of Children’s Fantasy and Postcolonialism 5. The (Post)Colonial Exotic: Representing the Other in Adventure Stories for the Young
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Postcolonial Film
Book SynopsisPostcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization lead to the creation of dozens of new states, forming a backdrop to films of that period. Towards the century's end and at the dawn of the new millennium, film continues to form a site for interrogating colonization and decolonization, though against a backdrop that is now more neo-colonial than colonial and more culturally imperial than imperial. This volume explores how individual films emerged from and commented on postcolonial spaces and the building and breaking down of the European empire. Each chapter is a case study examining how a particular film from a postcolonial nation emerges from and reflects that nation's unique postcolonial situation. This analysis of one nation's struggle with its coloniality allows each essay tTrade Review"This volume of essays brilliantly creates the groundwork for a truly international discussion. Film and its centrality to the ongoing colonial and postcolonial debates in and between countries across the globe is its focus. The many scholarly and accessible essays here will open readers’ eyes to the truly global reach of film, and to the urgency of creating equitable postcolonial cultures." – Lyn McCredden, Deakin University, Australia"This collection of essays engages with traditional discourses in postcolonial studies in the light of recent developments pertaining to globalization, a post-9/11 security planet, Islamic terrorism, infra-nationalisms, and intense nomadism of populations. It is long awaited." – Anustup Basu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: New Perspectives on Postcolonial Film Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Part I: New Readings of Twentieth Century Anti-Colonial Resistance Narratives 1. Yesterday’s Mujahiddin: Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966) Nicholas Harrison 2. The Sound of Broken Memory: Assia Djebar’s The Nuba of the Women of Mount Chenoua (1977) Sarah E. Mosher 3. Approximate Others: Peter Weir’s The Last Wave (1977) Jerod Ra’Del Hollyfield 4. Life as an Ocean: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Puppetmaster (1993) Stephen Spence Part II: Millennial Tropes of NeoEmpire 5. Shifting Sands, Imaginary Space, and National Identity: Cédric Klapisch’s Peut-être (1999) Jehanne-Marie Gavarini 6. No Chains on Feet or Mind: Jean-Claude Flamand Barny’s Nèg Maron (2005) Meredith Robinson 7. A Cinema of Conviviality: Ray Lawrence’s Jindabyne (2006) Corinn Columpar 8. Déjà vu All Over Again: Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg (2007) Cynthia Sugars Part III: New Imaginations of Neo-Postcolonialism 9. Identity and The Politics of Space: Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven (2007) Vuslat Demirkoparan 10. Space and Cultural Memory: Te-Shen Wei’s Cape No.7 (2008) Yu-wen Fu 11. The Postcolonial Hybrid: Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 (2009) Rebecca Weaver-Hightower 12. The Marginal Interventionist Cinema of Budhan Theatre: Dakxin Bajrange Chhara’s The Lost Water (2008/2010) Henry Schwarz 13. Afterword: History, Empire, Resistance Ella Shohat and Robert Stam
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Imperial Leather
Book SynopsisImperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the gendering of nationalism within the zones of imperial and anti-imperial power.Trade Review"The author and Routledge are to be congratulated on a big, beautiful book that many students of the history of sexuality will find alluring." -- Journal of the Historyof Sexuality"Imperial Leather is what an academic book ought to be: intelligent, informed, socially committed, engaged, and engaging." -- Women's Review of Books"Imperial Leather is a wonderful book." -- Women's Reviewof Books"McClintock's magisterial study...is a daring articulation of the race-class-gender triad." -- Choice"Anne McClintock's Imperial Leather takes a prominent place among a number of recent works...that question the relegation of the imperial enterprise to the back benches of the Victorian sensibility...Ms. McClintock's astute reading of novels, diaries, and advertisements, among other sources, demonstrates how images of domestic life can be incorporated into an ideology of imperial domination." -- The New York Times Book Review"Imperial Leather is a very passionately written book, and the reader cannot help but be involved in the various texts that McClintock freely uses. Nothing escapes her hard, penetrating gaze...The work is thoughtful and well researched. I highly recomend it." -- Journal ofCarribean Studies"This is a big book, in every sense of the word: big format, big ideas, big aim." -- The Canadian HistoricalReview"Lucidly written, wide-ranging in its scope, supple and rigorous in its analysis, and impressive in its consistent theorization of gender in relation to other axes of power, Imperial Leather is a major contribution to materialist feminist scholarship." -- Signs"Engaging and frequently brilliant." -- Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsI. Empire of the Home 1. The Lay of the Land 2. "Massa and Maids 3. Imperial Leather 4. Psychoanalysis, Race and Female Fetish II. Double Crossings 5. Soft-Soaping Empire 6. The White Family of Man 7. Olive Schreiner III. Dismantling the Master's House 8. The Scandal of Hybridity 9. "Azikwelwa" (We Will Not Ride) 10. No Longer in a Future Heading
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Cambridge University Press Reviewing the South
Book SynopsisA new take on the origins of the Southern Literary Renaissance, Reviewing the South shows how book reviewing played a vital role in shaping an image of the South in the American national consciousness during the interwar years.Trade Review'Gardner, one of America's leading literary historians, offers strikingly fresh insights into the South and the nation between the World Wars. In shifting our focus from authors to the commercial book industry, Gardner reveals a world of reviewers, readers, and publishers, a culture that has remained largely hidden until now. This book will shape our understanding of American literary history for years to come.' Jonathan Daniel Wells, University of Michigan'Sarah Gardner's lively and, at times, provocative Reviewing the South locates the origins of the Southern Renaissance in the joint efforts of publishers, daily newspapers, and weekly journals (both inside and outside the South), and, of course, book reviewers and critics. Her treatment of the intersection of the Harlem Renaissance with the Southern Renaissance is particularly fresh and revealing, while her categories of analysis – realism, traditionalism, and the genre of the grotesque and gothic – will be of great help to future students of the territory that Gardner has so skilfully mapped here. Reviewing the South is a must-read for literary historians and intellectual historians of the South, and should prove invaluable for anyone interested in Southern and American cultural history.' Richard King, Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham'Gardner has produced a fascinating analysis of the role of the south in the American imaginary during the interwar years based on a sophisticated and nuanced exploration of the role of reviewers and their reviews of a wide range of southern fiction in the mainstream press during those years.' Michael Winship, University of Texas, Austin'Gardner begins this cultural-historical study of the southern literary renaissance - a rebirth in and new direction for literature from the southern US after WWI - with a review of the roles that book publishers and reviewers played in steering readers to worthwhile books. … A central, intriguing idea underlying Gardner's analysis is that the line between meeting a demand and creating that demand in the first place is sometimes hard to trace. The book looks at how southern renaissance writers including Julia Peterkin, Jean Toomer, Ellen Glasgow, Erskine Caldwell, and William Faulkner rejected sentimentality and nostalgia, offering instead a more realistic view of Jim Crow. Analysis of reviews, readers' replies, and advertisements demonstrates why these writers' works gained attention between the wars, how readers responded to them, and why Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind outsold them all. … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' C. A. Bily, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: from Renaissance to reformation; 1. The world the reviewers made; 2. The cultural economy of reading in the interwar years; 3. The South meets Harlem; 4. Confronting Jim Crow; 5. Away down South in the land of problems; 6. A class of burden bearers; 7. The most audacious book ever written by Southerners; 8. Fiction fights the Civil War; Epilogue.
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Palgrave Macmillan Reading the Sphinx
Book SynopsisReading the Sphinx unearths buried conflicts in religion, myth, and the memory of Egypt in the West, illuminating issues of identity, inheritance, gender, and sexuality through cultural productions ranging from Herodotus to Freud.Table of ContentsThe Egyptomania Craze: From Wedgwood China to the Washington Monument Tales from the Crypt: Theories of Cultural Burial The Exquisite Corpse: Nineteenth-century Literary Revivals The Empire of the Imagination: Egypt and Esoterica Strangers in a Strange Land: Travelers in Egypt Oedipus Aegyptiacus: Egypt and Early Psychology
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature
Book SynopsisSilvia Anastasijevic is a doctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt and a research assistant at the University of Bonn, Germany.Magdalena Pfalzgraf is Junior Professor of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bonn, Germany.Hanna Teichler is a postdoctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature: The mobilizing potential of transcultural World Literature: Magdalena Pfalzgraf and Hanna Teichler Foreword: On excentric proximity: Some thoughts for Frank Homi K. Bhabha Part One Theories and concepts 1 'World Literature'? A perspective from the Centre, a perspective from the edge: Michael Chapman 2 Traversal, transversal: A poetics of migrancy: Robert J C. Young 3 On transcultural globalectics: Ngugi meets Schulze-Engler: Tanaka Chidora Part Two Transgressive kinships 4 Not-so-happy families: Durell, Goodall and the myth of Africa: Graham Huggan 5 The 'makings of a diasporic self': Transcultural life writing, diaspora and modernity in Stuart Hall's Familiar Stranger: Katja Sarkowsky 6 Toward re-centring the senescent: Pedagogical possibilities of Anglophone short fiction: Mala Pandurang and Jinal Baxi 7 Notes from a classroom: Teaching Anglophone transculturality amidst environmental devastations: Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell and Michelle Stork Part Three Transversal readings 8 Transculturality and the law: Witi Ihimaera's The Whale Rider and a river with personhood: Mita Banerjee 9 'Mobility at large': Anglophone travel writing as a medium of transcultural communication in a global context: Nadia Butt 10 The transcultural imaginary: South Asian writing from Aotearoa New Zealand: Janet Wilson 11 Passages to India: Jewish exiles between privilege and persecution Flora Veit-Wild Afterword: 'Objects in the rear-view mirror': Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Modernism in a Global Context
Book SynopsisExploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the ''global turn'' in contemporary Modernist Studies. Topics covered include: - Transnational exchanges between Western and non-Western literary cultures - Imperialism and the Modernism - Cosmopolitanism and postcolonial literatures - Global literary institutions - from the Little Magazine to the Nobel Prize - Mass media - photography, cinema, and radio broadcasting in the modernist age Exploring the work of writers such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie and critics such as Edward Said, Pascale Casanova, Paul Gilroy, and Gayatri Spivak amongst many others, the book also includes a comprehensive annotated guide to further reading and online resources.Trade ReviewThe book, and the series as a whole, is useful for both beginning students and advanced scholars of modernism. It approaches its topic through the critical theories of modernism, grounding it in academia, and provides an extended bibliography of the major critical works. The broad rather than deep approach makes Modernism in a Global Context an excellent beginner’s guide to the movement. * Journal of Modern Literature *In range and scope, this is an ambitious and comprehensive book ... One of its most laudable achievements is achieving such breadth without sacrificing depth, nuance of argument, or readability ... The book is accessible to undergraduates without flattening out complicated questions that will challenge all scholars of modernism ... Modernism in a Global Context provides a thoughtful and compelling view of global modernism at a key moment in this developing field. * Review of English Studies *[T]he ambitious re-mapping of Modernism, especially in the cosmopolitan and postcolonial contexts, provides a fascinating arena for further thought and discussion. * Virginia Woolf Bulletin *In this hearty work, Kalliney (Univ. of Kentucky) examines modernism in the context of 20th- and 21st-century globalism. Taking modernism beyond the shores of Europe and North American, Kalliney offers chapters on media (Marshall McLuhan et al.), cosmopolitanism, cultural Institutions (UNESCO), and imperialism. Of these the last makes the most significant contribution. Here the author tackles such usual suspects as Joseph Conrad and Elizabeth Bowen but also focuses on Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Canadian M. G. Vassanji (who was raised in Tanzania but emigrated to Canada), and others. Particularly interesting is Kalliney's understanding of anticolonial modernism as expansive in nature. For him, the tools of modernism allow for a broad understanding and construction of community, which he argues is “asymmetrical in nature" and crosses temporal and spatial boundaries. This much-needed study allows for ownership of modernism beyond the traditional hegemony. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. * CHOICE *A very effective, very accessible and remarkably even-handed survey of the existing, highly complex landscape of new modernist studies. * English Studies *Engagingly written and keenly aware of the enormity of its topic, Kalliney’s book maintains an enviable blend of scholarly rigor and accessible introduction, making it one of the most ideal teaching tools in a series devoted to that audience … Kalliney proceeds to move through a provocative range of examples of how one might conceive of modernism as a global phenomenon while remaining attentive to textual specificity. * Modernism/modernity *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. An Aesthetics of Motion 2. Imperialism 3. Cosmopolitanism 4. Cultural Institutions 5. Media 6. Conclusion 7 Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Hidden Paradigms
Book SynopsisUnderstanding an epic story’s key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence. These foundational motifs remain understudied as they relate to South Asian folk legends, but are nonetheless crucial in shaping the values exemplified by such stories’ central heroes and heroines. In Hidden Paradigms, anthropologist Brenda E.F. Beck describes The Legend of Ponnivala, an oral epic from rural South India. Recorded in 1965, this story was sung to a group of village enthusiasts by a respected pair of local bards. This grand legend took more than thirty-eight hours to complete over eighteen nights. Bringing this unique example of Tamil culture to the attention of an international audience, Beck compares this virtually unknown South Indian epic to five other culturally significant works the Ojibwa Nanabush cycle, the Mahabharata, an Icelandic Saga, the BibleTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Summarizing an Epic Legend, The Legend of Ponnivala Nadu 2. Character and Plot Structures, The Mahabharata 3. Human Life as a Balancing Act, The Epic of Gilgamesh 4. Seven Great Phases of History, The Bible’s Old and New Testament Stories 5. Landscapes and Identity Formation, The Vatsendaela Saga 6. Human versus Extra-Human Powers, The Nanabush Legend Cycle 7. Hidden Paradigms, Additional Themes and Some Overview Theories 8. The Story Told by the Stars, Babylonian Star-lore and the Hindu Nakshatras 9. An Epic Story Visualized as a Lotus Plant, The Lotus Plant in Barabudur, Central Java Conclusion Annotated Bibliography Listing Sources for Specific Epics Discussed General Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature
Book SynopsisGraphic narratives are one of the world's great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United States dominate scholarly conversations about them. Building upon the little extant scholarship on graphic narratives from the Global South, this collection moves beyond a narrow Western approach to this quickly expanding field. By focusing on texts from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, these essays expand the study of graphic narratives to a global scale. Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature is also interested in how these texts engage with, fit in with, or complicate notions of World Literature. The larger theoretical framework of World Literature is joined with the postcolonial, decolonial, Global South, and similar approaches that argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-Western graphic narratives on their own terms. Ultimately, this collection explores the ways that the unique formal qualities of graphic narrTrade ReviewGraphic Novels and Comics as World Literature is a highly compelling read for all scholars who want to expand beyond a Euro-American-Japanese-centric approach in comic research and learn about comics’ crucial contribution to world literature. The comprehensive essays in this volume point out the diversity of international comic production, circulation, and reception and stress the multiplicity of comics’ structural codes. They outline the need for comic research to push for a decentered approach--by envisioning universality alongside unique perspectives. In doing so, this volume convincingly discusses world literature as a processual concept rather than affirming a normative canon. I consider this volume a key addition to the disputed field of world literature; by addressing the comic medium, it presents an urgently needed debordering in thinking about the world. * Marina Rauchenbacher, Research Associate, Department of German Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, and author of Karoline von Günderrode. Eine Rezeptionsstudie (2014) *A rich journey, this book invites us to an intimate reading of comics as world literature from a Global South perspective. Playful yet aware of what is at stake literarily and politically, it transgresses geographical as well as disciplinary borders and opens our eyes to the stories of those who, more often than not, are denied border crossing. Thoroughly researched, well written, and passionate, it will appeal to literary scholars and comic book fans alike. * Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and author of The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous: A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual (2021) *Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: Global South Comics on Their Own Terms James Hodapp, Northwestern University, Qatar 1. Pages of Exception: Graphic Reportage as World Literature Dominic Davies, City University London, UK 2. Latin America’s Tinta Femenina and Its Place in Graphic "World Literature" Jasmin Wrobel, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 3. An Alternative Worldliness: Verbal and Visual Experimentations in Fi shiqqat bab el-loq (The Apartment in Bab El-Louk) Dima Nasser, Brown University, USA 4. Boys Love in Latin America: The Migration of Aesthetics in Contemporary Graphic Narrative Camila Gutiérrez, Pennsylvania State University, USA 5. A Sociological Approach to Francophone African Comics (1978-2016) Sandra Federici 6. Born in the “World”: Leila Abdelrazaq’s Writing and Art as World Literature Allison Blecker, Harvard University, USA 7. Utopias Gone Wrong: Representing the Dystopic Urban in the Indian Graphic Narrative Debadrita Chakraborty, Cardiff University, UK 8. Opening Up a World and the Temporal-Normative Dimension: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass as World Literature Jin Lee, Myongji University, South Korea 9. Between the Saltwater and the Desert: Indigenous Australian Tales from the Margins Catherine Sly, Independent Scholar, Australia 10. A Case Study of Sita’s Ramayana, Diasporic Negotiations, COVID-19, and the Television Serial Ramayana Shilpa Daithota Bhat, Ahmedabad University, India 11. Wakanda as a Sustainable Smart Society: Africanfuturism in Marvel’s Black Panther Jana Fedtke 12. Neoliberal Ideologies in Menggapai Bintang (Reach for the Stars) Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Habibah Ismail and Hazlina Abdullah, Universiti Sains Islam, Malaysia 13. “LONG LIVE the Waste!”: Junk Food Bites Back in Jung’s Approved for Adoption Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State University, USA Notes on Contributors Index
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Manchester University Press Passages
Book SynopsisThis book is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text that invites inquiry into today's apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason, and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen time and 'consulate time'. -- .
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Manchester University Press South African London: Writing the Metropolis
Book SynopsisThis book presents a long-ranging and in-depth study of South African writing set in London during the apartheid years and beyond. Since London served as an important site of South African exile and emigration, particularly during the second half of the twentieth-century, the city shaped the history of South African letters in meaningful and material ways. Being in London allowed South African writers to engage with their own expectations of Englishness, and to rethink their South African identities. The book presents a range of diverse and fascinating responses by South African writers that provide nuanced perspectives on exile, global racisms and modernity. Writers studied include Peter Abrahams, Dan Jacobson, Noni Jabavu, Todd Matshikiza, Arthur Nortje, Lauretta Ngcobo, J.M.Coetzee, Justin Cartwright, and Ishtiyaq Shukri. South African London offers an original and multi-faceted take on both London writing and South African twentieth-century literature.Trade Review'In this rich and engaging new study, Andrea Thorpe offers us the perspectives of those for whom London was variously a lens to view the world [...] The book is sharply cognisant of the production of 'South African' writing and writers in London and how this was racially structured [...] there is much in Thorpe's work for scholars of South African history and writing, London and urban histories, exile, modernity, and transnational movements.'Anne Macguire, The London Journal'Thorpe's re-evaluation of South African writing as London writing holds political as well as scholarly importance.'Hayley G. Toth, Journal of Postcolonial Writing'South African London is a well-conceived and engaging book, providing informed and insightful readings that nuance the contrapuntal paradigm of exilic writing. It makes a valuable contribution to South African literary history, as well as to the literature of London and to Diaspora Studies.'Peter Blair, Modern Language Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Through the “eyes” of London 1 Peter Abrahams and Dan Jacobson: South African liberal humanists in postwar LondonDetour:“I have always been a Londoner”: Noni Jabavu, an unconventional South African in London 2 Swinging City: Todd Matshikiza’s contrapuntal London writing 3 Waiting and Watching in the city’s pleasure streets: Arthur Nortje’s poems set in London Detour: South African writers and London networks of black British activism 4 Securing the past: Self-reflexive, retrospective narratives of London in J.M. Coetzee’s Youth and Justin Cartwright’s In Every Face I Meet Epilogue: Between the cracks of the city: Transnational Solidarities in Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret Index
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Anthem Press Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine
Book SynopsisBooker Prize winner and Living National Treasure, Thomas Keneally still divides critical opinion: he is both a morally challenging stylist and a commercial hack, a wise commentator on society and a garrulous leprechaun. Such judgements are located in the cultural politics of Australia but also linked to ideas about what a literary career should look like. ‘Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine’ charts Keneally’s production and reception across his three major markets, noting clashes between national interests and international reach, continuity of themes and variety of topics, settings and genres, the writer’s interests and the publishers’ push to create a brand, celebrity fame and literary reputation, and the tussle around fiction, history, allegory and the middlebrow. Keneally is seen as playing a long game across several events rather than honing one specialist skill, a strategy that has sustained for more than 50 years his ambition to earn a living from writing.Trade Review‘Paul Sharrad skillfully combines insights from biography, literary history, book history and celebrity studies to trace changes in the production and reception of Thomas Keneally’s works both within Australia and internationally.’ —Elizabeth Webby AM FAHA, Professor Emerita, English Department, University of Sydney, Australia‘Paul Sharrad's landmark study of Thomas Keneally examines his writing in its multiple international and Australian contexts. Likely to be the indispensable evaluation of Keneally’s place in Australian culture.’ —Janet Wilson, Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, University of Northampton, UK‘Paul Sharrad’s thorough and entertaining survey not only tells us much about Keneally we never knew before but also shows that the study of an author’s career can be a new way to measure the stature of a literary artist.’ —Nicholas Birns, Associate Professor, School of Professional Studies, New York University, USA‘In this important contribution to book history, Paul Sharrad applies the lens of the literary career to the prolific though often divisive work of Thomas Keneally, charting a course between literary and commercial fiction, history and fiction, authorship and celebrity, and the opposing frames of national and world literatures.’ —Robert Dixon, Professor of Australian Literature, University of Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Beginnings; 2. The Collins Years; 3. To the Booker; 4. Afterwards; 5. Republic and Beyond; 6. Histories and Refugees; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Queer Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining
Book SynopsisQueer studies is now a rapidly expanding field, as scholars from a variety of disciplines seek to address the long-running marginalisation of queer perspectives and experiences. But there has so far been little effort to unify the study of queer communities outside the West, and much of the current writing views these communities through a narrowly Western lens. Building on the work of the annual Queer Asia conference, which the editors helped to establish, this collection represents the most comprehensive work to date on queer studies in an Asian context. Featuring case studies and original research from across the continent, covering the Middle East, South and East Asia, and Asian diasporas, the collection offers a genuinely pan-Asian perspective which places queer Asian identities and movements in dialogue with each other, rather than within a Western framework. By considering how queerness is imagined within plural Asian experiences and contexts, the contributors show a that re-envisioning of ‘queer’ through Asian perspectives has the potential to challenge existing discourses and debates in the wider field of contemporary gender, sexuality, and queer studies.Trade ReviewBoth being queer and being Asian remain alienating experiences today. This sophisticated volume examines their negotiated syncopation in diverse ordinary contexts. The chapters build a timely solidarity across disciplinary, professional, identitarian, and geopolitical lines to de-universalize Western privilege and unleash the power of liminal synergies * Howard H. Chiang, University of California, Davis *Bursting forth online and in various spaces, ‘Queer’ Asia is certainly one of the most energetic and exciting phenomena to emerge in gender and sexuality studies, and queer politics, over recent years. Blending academic research and critical theory with the cultural and the political the ‘Queer’ Asia network has successfully contributed to redefining the landscape and geopolitics of global queer studies * Matthew Waites, University of Glasgow *Table of ContentsForeword – Matthew Waites Introduction - J. Daniel Luther and Jennifer Ung Loh Part I: Negotiations 1. Under Empire and the Modern State: Unravelling ‘Queer Precarities’ Inside Global Assemblages - Ahmad Ibrahim 2. Reimagining HIV in Indonesian online media: a discussion of two recent Indonesian webseries – Ben Murtagh 3. Rich In Desire: Sexualities and Fantasies Deriving from Poverty, Stigmatisation and Oppression – He Xiaopei 4. Mithliyy, mithlak: language and LGBTQ Activism in Lebanon and Palestine - Gabriel Semerene Interview with Alana EISSA: Trans Activism in Malaysia and the UK Asylum Process Part II: Traces and Ambiguities 5. Queer Desires and Satirised Empires: Notes on Aubrey Menen’s A Conspiracy of Women (1965) - David Lunn 6. Queer Objects: An Archive for the Future – Loo Zihan 7. The Isolated Queer Body: Harisu’s Dodo Cosmetics Advertisement - Kate Korroch Interview with Floyd Tiogangco: Filmmaking and Gender Expression in The Philippines Part III: Coalitions and Fractures 8. Intersex Advocacy in Chinese/Sinophone Contexts - A Primer, accompanied by an Interview with Activist Small LUK - Geoffrey Yeung 9. Queer Asia’s Body Without Organs: In the Making of Queer/Decolonial Politics – Po-Han Lee 10. Feminist and Queer Perspectives in West Asia: Complicities and Tensions - Nadje AL-ALI and Ghiwa Sayegh Interview with Alqumit Alhamad: Art and Intersections from Syria to Sweden Epilogue - J. Daniel Luther and Jennifer Ung Loh
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Liverpool University Press Sex, Sea, and Self: Sexuality and Nationalism in
Book SynopsisSex, Sea, and Self reassesses the place of the French Antilles and French Caribbean literature within current postcolonial thought and visions of the Black Atlantic. 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. Sex, Sea, and Self 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.Trade Review‘Sex, Sea and Self 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‘Couti’s book is essential reading for students and scholars of French Caribbean literature from the early to mid twentieth century.’ Antonia Wimbush, French Studies‘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, Small AxeTable of ContentsIntroduction – On ne vous a pas oubliés: Re-Scripting and (Re-)Gendering French Antillean DiscoursesPart I – She Says: Nascent Black French Feminist Thought and the Theorization of “New” Epistomologies of Self from the Interwar Period to the Aftermath of DepartmentalizationChapter 1 – The Doudou Strikes Back: Dissecting Doudouisme during the Interwar PeriodChapter 2 – Transatlantic Women’s Voices: The Doudou Writes BackChapter 3 – Mayotte Capécia: From “I am Martinican” to “I am becoming French”Part II – He Says: Black Male Recolonization of Space in the TropicsChapter 4 – Deconstruction of the White Creole Myth: Creole Desire and the Flip Side of the CoinChapter 5 – Whiteness and Masculinity Gone Wild: Impossible RedemptionCoda – Who Speaks for Whom?BibliographyIndex
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States: Interviews with Contemporary Writers
Book SynopsisThis collection of interviews demonstrates that U.S. Latinas/os of South American background have contributed pioneering work to U.S. Latina/o literature and culture in the twenty-first century. In conversation with twelve significant authors of South American descent in the United States, Juanita Heredia reveals that, through their transnational experiences, they have developed multicultural identities throughout different regions and cities across the country. However, these authors' works also exemplify a return to their heritage in South America through memory and travel, often showing that they maintain strong cultural and literary ties across national borders. As such, they have created a new chapter in trans-American history by finding new ways of imagining South America from their formation and influences in the U.S.Trade Review“Mapping South American Latina/a Literature in the United States: Interviews with Contemporary Writers by Juanita Heredia is a welcome critical Intervention … . The volume is overall a much-needed contribution to the growing field of Latina/o literature in the United States. … Mapping will be valuable to scholars of Latina/o and Latin American contemporary literature, queer and gender studies, and multi-ethnic U.S. literature; and a companion to students reading works by these twelve authors in undergraduate or graduate courses.” (Manuela Borzone, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature STTCL, Vol. 46 (1), 2022)“This text may serve as a useful resource for educators wishing to provide students with a contemporary context to the works studied in their courses, and would also be an enjoyable read for the general intellectual.” (Carolyn González, Latino Studies, Vol. 19, 2021)Table of Contents1. Introduction: Mapping South American Latinidad in the United States.2. The Task of the Translator: Daniel Alarcón.3. Bridges across Lima and Washington D.C.: Marie Arana.4. Dreaming in Brazilian: Kathleen De Azevedo.5. It Takes Two to Tango across Montevideo and California: Carolina De Robertis.6. Traveling the Caribbean, Colombia, and the U.S.: Patricia Engel.7. My Poetic Feminism between Peru and the U.S.: Carmen Giménez Smith.8. Gender and Spirituality in Colombia, Cuba and New Jersey: Daisy Hernández.9. The Colombiano of Greenwich Village: Jaime Manrique.10. A Meditation on Parenting from Syria to Peru to the U.S: Farid Matuk.11. From Dirty Wars in Argentina and Latvia to Listening to Music: Julie Sophia Paegle.12. Writing the Chilena NuYorker Experience: Mariana Romo-Carmona.13. Returning to the Fervor of Buenos Aires from the U.S.: Sergio Waisman.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Decolonising the Literature Curriculum
Book SynopsisThis book explores pedagogical approaches to decolonising the literature curriculum through a range of practical and theoretically-informed case studies. Although decolonising the curriculum has been widely discussed in the academe and the media, sustained examinations of pedagogies involved in decolonising the literature at university level are still lacking in English and related subjects. This book makes a crucial contribution to these evolving discussions, presenting current and critically engaged pedagogical scholarship on decolonising the literature curriculum. Offering a broad spectrum of accessible chapters authored by experienced national and international academics, the book is structured into two parts, Texts and Contexts, presenting case studies on decolonising the literature curriculum which range from the undergraduate classroom, university writing centres, through to the literary doctorate.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Decolonising EnglishPart I Texts: Decolonising the Literature Canon Decolonising Pedagogical Approaches to Queer Postcolonial Texts Centring Women of Colour: Decolonising the Literature Curriculum with Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire and Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour Smart Latinas Are Latinas: On Teaching Chicana/Latina Young Adult (YA) Literature as Feminist Resistance “Hard and Rocky” Soil: Decolonising the General Education Introduction to Literature Course with August Wilson’s Fences Redesigning the Curriculum: Teaching Multicultural Literature in Non-native English-Speaking University Settings in Turkey and Italy Part II Contexts: Beyond the Boundaries of Literary Texts Decolonising Wuthering Heights in the Semi-peripheral Classroom ‘Culinary Cultures’: Theorising Postcolonial Food Cultures A Border-Crossing Teaching Body: Reflections on a Decolonial Pedagogy for Literary Studies in a South African Context Teaching Academic Literacy in the Co-curriculum: Creating Culturally Safe Spaces Decolonising the Literary Doctorate
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Springer International Publishing AG Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America:
Book SynopsisHydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America is organized around the critical and theoretical “turn” known as hydro-criticism, an innovative approach to the study of the ways in which bodies of water (oceans, seas, rivers, archipelagos, lakes, etc.) impact the study of history, culture, and society. This volume proposes a hydro-critical approach to issues related to the colonial period. The analysed texts demonstrate not only the presence of water and oceanic trajectories as metaphorical devices, but the inherent implication of navigation, ports, islandic territories, drainage systems, floodings and the like in configuration of collective imaginaries, from colonial times to the present. This book encompasses studies of the decisive role water played in the world view from/about the “New World” since the discovery, both for the monarchy and the church, and the impact of oceanic journeys for the advancement of colonization and slavery. In chapters that combine historical, linguistic, literary and ethnographic approaches, this volume constitutes an attempt to expand the scope and methodology of colonial studies. At the same time, the continuity of maritime perspectives reaches the analysis of contemporary literature, thus demonstrating the importance of this critical paradigm for the study of Caribbean cultures. In this respect, studies particularly illuminate the connection between popular beliefs and oceanic dimensions, as well as on issues of gender and ethnicity.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Texts, Textures, and Water Marks2. The Pacific Ocean as a Space of Freedom, Danger, and Economic Success for the Colonial Project in Verdadera descripción de la Provincia y Tierra de Las Esmeraldas3. English and Irish Missionaries in New Spain: A Hydrocolonial Reading of Religion and Empire4. On Paper Ships, Sailors, and Cosmographers: Spanish Maritime Narratives and Political Networks of an Imperial Project5. Imagining a Multi-Modal Digital Corpus of Early Modern Maritime Texts6. Alonso Ramírez’s Circumnavigation of the World (1675–1689) and the Universal Claim to the American Spirit in the Open Seas7. Pantitlán or Desagüe: Technology and Secularization in Colonial Mexico City8. “Water, Only Water on All Parts”: Re/imagining the Middle Passage in Teresa Cárdenas’ Mãe Sereia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Image and Concept: Mythopoetic Roots of
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1997. Image and Concept: Mythopoetic Roots of Literature here - finally - available in English, is devoted to the origins of Greek tragedy. In it, Freidenberg develops the notion that it was the very transition from thinking based on mythological images to the kind of thinking that makes use of formal-logical concepts that resulted in the appearance of literature. With the transition from mythological thinking to conceptual thought, the content of mythological images became the texture of the new concepts. The inherited mythological forms now were reinterpreted conceptually: causalized, ethicized, generalized, abstracted. This reinterpretation, in turn, brought about poetic figurality. Folkloric material began to be differentiated from the mythological images of the past into various disciplines such as religion, philosophy, ethics, literature, and art. Yet, differentiated and reinterpreted as it was, the folkloric material remained formally preserved in poetic image, structure, and plot.Trade Review"Olga Freidenberg, a classic philologist and literary theorist active in Leningrad, has been known in the west mainly for her corroespondence with her cousin Boris Pasternak. That situation is undergoing radical change, as Freidenberg's rich and difficult works are being brought to a wider public by scholars....The present publication is an important addition to the corpus....The rewards are great. Moss does a good job in his introduction of distinguishing Freidenberg's ideas....Given the difficulties of Freidenberg's style, Moss's translation is an impressive accomplishment."Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 Explanation of the Theme; Chapter 2 Metaphor; Chapter 3 The Origin of Narrative; Chapter 4 Mime; Chapter 5 Excursus on Philosophy; Chapter 6 Old Comedy; Chapter 7 Tragedy;
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of
Book SynopsisA New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Globe & Mail Book of the Year "A stimulating work on the politics of language." LA Review of Books As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster than ever, leaving our planet’s linguistic diversity leaping towards extinction. 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 Speak Not, 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. Introducing readers to compelling characters and examining how indigenous communities are fighting for their languages, Griffiths ultimately explores how languages hang on, what happens when they don’t, and how indigenous tongues can be preserved and brought back from the brink.Trade ReviewThis history of endangered languages assesses the political causes of their precariousness. * The New Yorker *A welcome addition to critiques of empire and studies of language and politics. Part history, part memoir, part policy critique, the volume succeeds at telling a universal tale through particular stories, including characters who remind us that the languages we speak – and speak not – are the worlds in which we live, and that such worlds are worth fighting for. -- David Moscrop * The Globe & Mail *Speak Not is an astute, well-researched, and often scholarly meditation on the forces that drive marginal languages out of existence in favor of dominant metropolitan tongues ... [a] stimulating work on the politics of language. -- Oliver Farry * LA Review of Books *A lucid and timely account of languages under threat around the world… illuminating in the extreme. -- Kang Hyun-kyung * The Korea Times *Griffiths is spot on: the survival of many languages—and perhaps the identities that go with them—depends on politics. * Asian Review of Books *Speak Not 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 *As 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" *Speak 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 *This commendable undertaking adds to the literature highlighting the constitutive role that centuries of imperial rule have played in the modern world. ... Speak not ends with a powerful call to action. * International Affairs *Table of ContentsEPIGRAPH INTRODUCTION PART ONE: WELSH 1. Blue Books 2. Fire and Fury 3. Signs of Change 4. Bilingual Nation INTERLUDE: AFRI-CAN’T PART TWO: HAWAIIAN 5. The Princess Who Was Promised 6. Sandwiched Islands 7. I Mua Kamehameha 8. Ke Ea Hawaii 9. Road Closed Due to Desecration INTERLUDE: THE OLD, NEW TONGUE PART THREE: CANTONESE 10. Dialectics 11. A Chinese Alphabet 12. Common Tongue 13. ‘Cantonese Gives You Nasal Cancer’ 14. Sounds of Separatism 15. Language Plateau EPILOGUE AUTHOR’S NOTE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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Hodder Education The Year in San Fernando
Book SynopsisThere have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society.This luminous book recounted through the eyes of the 12-year-old Francis, describes the year he spends, far away from home, in San Fernando. As his initial confusion gives way to increasing confidence and maturity, the open consciousness of the boy allows different times, events and places to co-exist.Over the course of one year, through Francis'' eyes, we see the cycle of natural change and progression; the daily round of the market, showing the fruits of different seasons, the passage of dry season to rainy and back again to dry, the cane fires as the crop comes to an end, all symbolising the progression of the boy''s year. And weaving in and amongst these mundane but intense experiences Francis feels his way to some
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Postcolonialism
Book SynopsisThis seminal worknow available in a 15th anniversary edition with a new prefaceis a thorough introduction to the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory. Provides a clearly written and wide-ranging account of postcolonialism, empire, imperialism, and colonialism, written by one of the leading scholars on the topic Details the history of anti-colonial movements and their leaders around the world, from Europe and Latin America to Africa and Asia Analyzes the ways in which freedom struggles contributed to postcolonial discourse by producing fundamental ideas about the relationship between non-western and western societies and cultures Offers an engaging yet accessible style that will appeal to scholars as well as introductory students Table of ContentsPreface to the Anniversary Edition ix Preface to the First Edition xxvi Acknowledgements xxix 1 Colonialism and the Politics of Postcolonial Critique 1 Part I Concepts in History 13 2 Colonialism 15 3 Imperialism 25 4 Neocolonialism 44 5 Postcolonialism 57 Part II European Anti-colonialism 71 6 Las Casas to Bentham 73 7 Nineteenth‐Century Liberalism 88 8 Marx on Colonialism and Imperialism 101 Part III The Internationals 113 9 Socialism and Nationalism: The First International to the Russian Revolution 115 10 The Third International, to the Baku Congress of the Peoples of the East 127 11 The Women’s International, the Third and the Fourth Internationals 140 Part IV Theoretical Practices of the Freedom Struggles 159 12 The National Liberation Movements: Introduction 161 13 Marxism and the National Liberation Movements 167 14 China, Egypt, Bandung 182 15 Latin America I: Mariátegui, Transculturation and Cultural Dependency 193 16 Latin America II: Cuba: Guevara, Castro and the Tricontinental 204 17 Africa I: Anglophone African Socialism 217 18 Africa II: Nkrumah and Pan‐Africanism 236 19 Africa III: The Senghors and Francophone African Socialism 253 20 Africa IV: Fanon/Cabral 274 21 The Subject of Violence: Algeria, Ireland 293 22 India I: Marxism in India 308 23 India II: Gandhi’s Counter‐modernity 317 Part V Formations of Postcolonial Theory 335 24 India III: Hybridity and Subaltern Agency 337 25 Women, Gender and Anti‐colonialism 360 26 Edward Said and Colonial Discourse 383 27 Foucault in Tunisia 395 28 Subjectivity and History: Derrida in Algeria 411 Epilogue: Tricontinentalism, for a Transnational Social Justice 427 Letter in Response from Jacques Derrida 429 Bibliography 432 Index 476
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gandhi in Indias Literary and Cultural Imagination
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Liverpool University Press The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with
Book SynopsisThe Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in South Africa since apartheid’s end. By focusing on the short story this book complicates models of South African literature dominated by the novel and contributes to a much-needed generic and formalist turn in postcolonial studies. Literary texts are sites of productive struggle between formal and extra-formal concerns, and these brief, fragmentary, elliptical, formally innovative stories offer perspectives that reframe or revise important concerns of post-apartheid literature: the aesthetics of engaged writing, the politics of the past, class and race, the legacies of violence, and the struggle over the land. Through an analysis of key texts from the period by Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes, this book assesses the place of the short story in post-apartheid writing and develops a fuller model of how artworks allow and disallow forms of social thought.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Long Story Short Nadine Gordimer: Past, Present, and Future A Moment’s Monument: Counter-Monuments in Ivan Vladislavić Zoë Wicomb and the “Problem of Class” Phaswane Mpe’s Aesthetics of Brooding Spatial Form in Henrietta Rose-Innes Conclusion: Small Medium at Large
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Plays from Alienation and Freedom
Book SynopsisPrior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest in dialogue, dramatisation and metaphor continued throughout his writing and career. His passion for theatre developed during the years that he was studying medicine, and in 1949 he wrote the plays The Drowning Eye (L'Œil se noie), and Parallel Hands (Les Mains parallèles). This first English translation of the works gives us a Fanon at his most lyrical, experimental and provocative.Table of ContentsFrantz Fanon: Works Cited General Introduction, by Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young Fanon, Revolutionary Playwright, by Robert J.C. Young 1 The Drowning Eye 2 Parallel Hands Frantz Fanon’s Library and Life Franz Fanon’s Library Key dates of Fanon’s chronology Index
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling
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Cambridge University Press Gospel Thrillers
Book SynopsisAccessible 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.Table of Contents1. The Bible Hunters; 2. Birth of a Genre; 3. Shifting Sands; 4. Texts and Sects; 5. Knowledge Brokers; 6. Academic Thrillers.
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Cambridge University Press After Said
Book SynopsisBy the time of his death in 2003, Edward Said was one of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century. Said''s work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and noted cultural critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual. This volume explores the problems and opportunities afforded by Said''s work: its productive and generative capacities as well as its in-built limitations. After Said captures the essence of Said''s intellectual and political contribution and his extensive impact on postcolonial studies. It examines his legacy by critically elaborating his core concepts and arguments. Among the issues it tackles are humanism, Orientalism, culture and imperialism, exile and the contrapuntal, realism and postcolonial modernism, world literature, Islamophobia, and capitalism and the political economy of empire. It is an excellent resource for students, graduates and instructors studying postcolonial liteTrade Review'Edward Said (1953–2003) was one of the most powerful and influential thinkers of his era as well as a leading advocate of the Palestinian cause.' Times Higher Education'The ideas within this book will find traction with students, graduates, and senior researchers in postcolonial studies, Victorian and modernist studies, cosmopolitan and refugee studies, as well as with political theorists. This absorbing collection of essays engages with Said's core concepts and outlines his achievements. … The admirable strides in After Said to aright or modify some of Said's claims, to my mind, empower future scholars of empire to take Marxism more seriously.' Rena Jackson, Jacobin'After Said opens innumerate directions for future research and development. As such, it succeeds in its goal of showing, in astounding detail, nuance and scope, the many possible directions of postcolonial studies after Said.' Jonathan Lench, Journal of English Studies'This volume, then, extends beyond the specific legacy of Said and addresses postcolonial theory more generally. Provocations feature across the series, which is intended to appeal to the non-specialist but also frequently contains interpretations and applications of interest to the practising cultural critic. The standard is high and the topics are diverse.' Robin Sims, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory'Each chapter is distinctive either for being informative on some of the elements of Said's life, research and political career, or for trying to push forward the debate on some of the problems Said emphasized, or missed, to develop in a more balanced theoretical advance towards new directions.' Sanja Petkovska, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books'… After Said is an important and timely intervention into postcolonial studies and academic convention. As such, it is well worth reading.' Omar Zahzah, Journal of Palestine Studies'… an important, meticulously researched model for postcolonial and comparative cultural/literary studies.' Bryant Scott, Houston Review Of BooksTable of Contents1. Said's political humanism: an introduction Bashir Abu-Manneh; 2. Said: birth of the critic Conor McCarthy; 3. The dual legacy of Orientalism Vivek Chibber; 4. Culture and imperialism: errors of a syllabus Seamus Deane; 5. Exile as a political aesthetic Keya Ganguly; 6. Said and the 'worlding' of nineteenth-century fiction Lauren M. E. Goodlad; 7. Said and political theory Jeanne Morefield; 8. Said, postcolonial studies and world literature Joe Cleary; 9. Postcolonial and transnational modernism Dougal McNeill; 10. Political predicaments of exile Joan Cocks; 11. Orientalism today Saree Makdisi; 12. Political economy and the Iraq War: Said and Arrighi Robert Spencer.
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Cambridge University Press Caribbean Literature in Transition 19702020
Book SynopsisThe period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020 traces the region''s contemporary writings across the established genres of prose, poetry, fiction and drama into emerging areas of creative non-fiction, memoir and speculative fiction with a particular attention on challenging the narrow canon of Anglophone male writers. It maps shifts and continuities between late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Caribbean literature in terms of innovations in literary form and style, the changing role and place of the writer, and shifts in our understandings of what constitutes the political terrain of the literary and its sites of struggle. Whilst reaching across language divides and multiple diasporas, it shows how contemporary Caribbean Literature has focused its attentions on social complexity and ongoing marginalizations in its continued preoccupations with identity, belonging and freedoms.Trade Review'Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020 will remain a rich source for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars within Caribbean studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, and performance studies who are interested in the political, cultural, and social life of the literary imagination … this volume functions as a necessary reflection on some of the major developments in Caribbean literary production over the past fifty years.' Jovante Anderson, Journal of West Indian Literature'The new and timely perspectives on migration, gender, and the environment, amongst other topics, enable this series to bring attention to an incredibly diverse canon of writers, literary forms, and historical contexts. In doing so, the volumes invite readers to revisit established figures - with Walcott and Naipaul still looming large - whilst also re-examining Caribbean literary history to include a corpus of voices that are not necessarily anglophone or male-centric. For this reason, the series deserves to lay the foundations of new critical explorations into the heterogeneity and global scope of Caribbean creativity from its roots in the colonial past through to its many fluid and fragmentary strands in the present.' Matthew Whittle, Journal of Postcolonial WritingTable of ContentsIntroduction. Caribbean Assemblages: 1970s-2020 Alison Donnell and Ronald Cummings; Part I. Literary and Generic Transitions: 1. Writing and the Responsibility to Memory: The Role of White Female Planters in Contemporary Caribbean Novels Tanya L. Shields; 2. Caribbean Identities and Diversifying the Creole Mix Shivanee Ramlochan; 3. Carnival, Calypso, and Dancehall Cultures: Making the Popular Political in Contemporary Caribbean Writing Emily Zobel Marshall; 4. Life Writing, Gender and Caribbean Narrative 1970-2015: Itinerant Self-Making in the Postcolonial Caribbean Denise Decaires Narain; 5. Forwarding Dubpoetry in this Generation: A Grassroots Performance and Neo-Literary Genre in Transition Susan Gingell; 6. Postcolonial Ruins, Reconstructive Poetics: Caribbean Urban Imaginaries Christopher Winks; 7. Reimagining Caribbean Time and Space: Speculative Fiction Rebecca Romdhani; 8. Drama and Performance Justine Mcconnell; 9. Here are the Others: Caribbean Creative Nonfiction Kei Miller; 10. 'Let every child run wild': Cultural Identity and the Role of the Child in Caribbean Children's and Young Adult Fiction Aisha Takiyah Spencer; Part II. Cultural and Political Transitions: 11. Caribbean Feminist Criticism: Towards a New Canon of Caribbean Feminist Theory and Theorizing Simone A. James Alexander; 12. Writing of and for a Revolution Alison Donnell and Nalini Mohabir; 12. Digital Yards: Caribbean Writing on Social Media and Other Digital Platforms Kelly Baker Josephs; 13. Developing and Sustaining Literary Publics: Prizes, Festivals, and New Writing Ifeona Fulani; Part III. The Caribbean Region in Transition: 14. The Caribbean and Britain Sarah Lawson Welsh; 15. Acts of Trespass and Collapsing Borders: Alternate Landscapes in Contemporary Caribbean-Canadian Literature Camille A. Isaacs; 16. The Caribbean and the United States Jocelyn Fenton Stitt; 17. The Caribbean and the Tourist Gaze Supriya M. Nair; 18. Caribbean Subjects in the World Kezia A. Page; Part IV. Critical Transitions: 19. Visuality in Caribbean Literature and Visual Culture Marta Fernández Campa; 20. From Counter-Textuality to Intertextuality: Continuing the Caribbean Canon Emily L. Taylor; 21. Caribbean Eco-Poetics: The Categorial Imperative and Indifference in the Caribbean Environment Keja L. Valens; 22. Sexual Subjects Faizal Deen and Ronald Cummings; 23. Caribbean Literature and Literary Studies: Past, Present, and Future Alison Donnell; Bibliography; Index.
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