Literary studies: postcolonial literature Books
Bloomsbury India Remember, Repeat, Inhabit: A Study of Antonin
Book SynopsisRemember, Repeat, Inhabit looks at three questions in relation to the idea of the viewer: What happens when one reads someone else''s reading of someone else?What happens when something repeats itself in Kieslowski''s work?Is there a possibility of an ontology of space?The book attempts to understand the idea of ''viewing'' from the inside, not simply as an ontological premise but definitely affected by it. Three differing contexts are looked at-a French madman''s notion of the ''self'', a Polish filmmaker''s notion of the ''everyday'' and an Indian performance artist''s notion of ''memory''. Through these on-the-surface contrasting artists and texts, a particular idea of a ''viewer'' emerges. This viewer is the key to an understanding of something almost elemental in the nature of the idea of ''viewing'' in the contemporary context of twenty-first-century Delhi.
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Bloomsbury India Ruskin Bond's Desh: Celebrating Root and Defining
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Bloomsbury India Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire:
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Bloomsbury India The New Normal: Trauma, Biopolitics and Visuality
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Columbia University Press No Country
Book SynopsisNo Country argues for a rethinking of the genre of working-class literature. Sonali Perera expands our understanding of of working-class fiction by considering a range of international and non-canonical texts, identifying textual, political, and historical linkages often overlooked by Eurocentric and postcolonial scholarship.Trade ReviewSonali Perera's No Country offers a powerful new theorizing of working-class literature in a global dimension. Gender inflections are given in unprecedented detail, through deeply learned and meticulously documented close readings of an astonishingly diversified collection of texts. Perera's readings of Marx are relevant to contemporary realities. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia UniversityA timely, intellectually ambitious, and original piece of work. It hopes both to reinvigorate critical interest in a complex genre/period category and, in the same movement, to provoke new thinking about such major categories as class, history, and literature itself. -- Ellen Rooney, Brown UniversityCaught in the stampede toward globalism, literary scholars have overlooked the rich archives of working-class internationalism. Sonali Perera's study is a bracing corrective to this trend, putting South Asian voices in dialogue with transcontinental interlocutors. Inspired by Raymond Williams, No Country leads us to a world literature that includes its many proletarian offshoots. -- Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University, author of Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan LanguageThis carefully argued book will interest scholars of contemporary transnational literature, Marxist approaches to literature, and African and South Asian literary studies; to my mind, however, its greatest impact will be on a younger generation of postcolonial critics, including graduate students, whose education has been so saturated with the theoretical truisms of postcolonial theory in its high phase that it is very difficult to imagine fresh readings of new and older texts outside of them. With such as the case I suspect that many younger scholars would rather give up on postcolonial studies altogether, dismissing it, as some have already done, as an outdated theoretical paradigm. This book challenges that claim. -- Ulka Anjaria * Contemporary Literature *Perera's critical and careful reading of literature is a challenge to all those who read literature politically, and seek to grapple with the larger questions of equality and justice in our uneven and unequal world. -- Ahilan Kadirgamar * Himal Southasian Magazine *A welcome addition and a worthwhile read. * South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies *Perera acknowledges a global workforce of peasants and coolies and garment workers stretching from India, Sri Lanka, and Botswana to the US, forged between the heyday of proletarian literature in the 1930s and contemporary collective forms of writing. . . . Global workingclass writing is at once deeply local (found in micro struggles over land or ethnicity that impel collectivity) and international (vectored through worker solidarity movements and transnational flows of capital, goods, and workers); moreover, according to Perera, its force comes within and through its aporia and interruptions, not in its discursive totality. Thus, working-class culture theorizes new subjects as it expresses them in varied literary forms—novels, poems, magazines, stories, reports. But read together with Marx and Williams, Perera finds that working-class culture describes the broken contours of a discontinuous field: “‘interruption’ [is] a structural, not aberrational, aspect of a specifically feminist aesthetic and ethic.” Discontinuous and in motion, the new working-class writing, like proletarian revolution, “come[s] back ...to begin it afresh.” It travels. -- Paula Rabinowitz * American Literary History *We can also see the future of Working-Class Studies in books like Sonali Perera’s No Country: Working-Class Writing in the Age of Globalization, which reads fiction from India, South Africa, and other colonialized regions of the English-speaking world alongside the work of Tillie Olsen. If nothing else, our increased awareness of the global working class should generate a more comparative, or at least a more contextualized, approach to the study of class. -- Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo * Journal of Working-Class Studies *Globalisation makes novels (especially traditional novels) hard to write. With national working-class publics constantly constituted only to be broken apart, jobs (or bodies) shipped around the globe, neither the room of one’s own nor the time presents itself for texts modelled on the great working-class novels of the last two centuries. This is one of the strongest implicit arguments in Perera’s book – and, I think, an essential point. -- Nicholas Hengen Fox * Race and Class *The book's primary enquiry is to examine how working-class writing can remain radical in a world of heightened globalisation where neoliberal capitalism pervades modes of reading and interpreting. In so doing, [Perera] aims to provide readings that challenge a sanitised view of world literature in which working-class positions remain marginalised and provincialised within a market-driven elite cosmopolitan literary culture. -- David Firth * Wasafiri *No Country could and should change the way that we conceptualize international working-class writing. -- Michelle M. Tokarczyk * Canadian Review of Comparative Literature *Through her analysis . . . Perera explores how to rethink working class literature, and No Country reevaluates the complex period genre category of working class writing. * Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: World Literature or Working-Class Literature in the Age of Globalization?1. Colonialism, Race, and Class: Mulk Raj Anand's Coolie as a Literary Representation of the Subaltern2. Postcolonial Sri Lanka and "Black Struggles for Socialism": Socialist Ethics in Ambalavaner Sivanandan's When Memory Dies3. Gender, Genre, and Globalization4. Socialized Labor and the Critique of Identity Politics: Bessie Head's A Question of PowerEpilogue: Working-Class Writing and the Social ImaginationNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Degenerative Realism Novel and Nation in
Book SynopsisExamining key novels by Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder, Aurélien Bellanger, Yann Moix, and other French writers, Christy Wampole identifies and critiques an emergent tendency toward “degenerative realism.”Trade ReviewNot just a brilliant study of reactionary hysteria in contemporary French fiction, Christy Wampole’s book has powerful insights into the world at large—a world that her writers see as slipping out of their control but that is shaped by their desperate need to assert rhetorical authority over it. An indispensable guide to our current toxic landscape. -- Joseph Litvak, author of The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon CultureThis book is timely in its intervention, and it offers a bracing portrait of the new degenerative realists. Wampole makes a persuasive case for the coherence and significance of this reactionary literary tendency. -- Lee Konstantinou, University of MarylandOne of the smartest books I’ve had the pleasure to read in recent years. Compelling, stimulating, far-reaching, and indispensable. Degenerative Realism is a rich, illuminating concept, plugged into the French national psyche while capturing the zeitgeist of our globalized economy, and full of potentialities for related fields. A must-read in a world caught between alternative facts and dire predictions. -- Philippe Met, University of PennsylvaniaIn the wake of the cultural and economic crises that hit France through the era of post-truth and social media, contemporary French literature invented a new form of realism, which Wampole calls “degenerative realism.” A challenging, stimulating book on a controversial literary trend. -- Alexandre Gefen, CNRS-Université Paris SorbonneDegenerative Realism is a thought-provoking and valuable piece of work. -- Gerald Prince * The French Review *[This book] marks a decisive, important theorization of a crucial–and deeply troubling–turn in contemporary French realism . . . Wampole’s study will doubtless provide the benchmark for further developments in the studies of the works and trends discussed under the auspices of ‘Degenerative Realism.' -- Patrick Lyons * French Forum *[A] brilliant study . . . Wampole’s knowledge of the theory and context of declinist thought in France is second to none, and her readings in this vein are compelling. -- Douglas Morrey * French Studies *Wampole’s readings are bold and creative, her prose lively and readable, her insights consistently profound and acute. -- Russell Williams * H-France *Wampole’s Degenerative Realism uncomfortably but salutarily draws our attention to the underbelly of the literature of progress that scholars of French studies prefer to read. In carefully teasing out the relations and resonances between our contemporary political landscape and what is transpiring on the literary landscape, Wampole shows how it is degenerative realism, with its dark, mostly unsavory texts, that is best positioned to force us out of our own illusions into examining the fictions that we pass off as realities in our lives. Becoming attuned to degenerative realism cannot help but change the way we read everything else, and in this regard, Wampole has produced a work that is deeply generative. -- Annabel L. Kim * Novel: A Forum on Fiction *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. What Is Degenerative Realism?1. Demography and Survival in Twenty-First-Century France2. Endarkenment from the Minitel to the Internet3. Real-Time Realism, Part 1: Journalistic Immediacy4. Real-Time Realism, Part 2: Le roman post-pamphlétaireConclusion. Novel as Nation: Forms of Parallel DecayNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Man Who Couldnt Die
Book SynopsisIn the chaos of early 199s Russia, a paralyzed veteran’s wife and stepdaughter conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him—and his pension—alive, until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die is an instant classic of post-Soviet Russian literature.Trade ReviewDarkly sardonic . . . . oddly timely, for there are all sorts of understated hints about voter fraud, graft, payoffs, and the endless promises of politicians who have no intention of keeping them. It is also deftly constructed, portraying a world and a cast of characters who are caught between the orderly if drab world of old and the chaos of the 'new rich' in a putative democracy. . . . Slavnikova is a writer American readers will want to have more of. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *Rather than celebrate the crumbling of walls, Slavnikova’s novel shows us all the Lenin statues still in place. It portrays a culture chained to old realities, unable to establish a new understanding of itself. This is a funhouse mirror worth looking into, especially in today’s United States with its alternative facts, unpoetic assertions, and morbid relationship with the past. -- Leeore Schnairsohn * Los Angeles Review of Books *The Man Who Couldn’t Die, lucidly translated by Marian Schwartz, will resound with American readers. Bristling with voter fraud, fake news, and the cozy top-and-tail of media moguls and politicians, Slavnikova’s book is fluent in new language of the damaged reality principle. -- Olivia Parkes * The Baffler *The Man Who Couldn’t Die is a Gogolian portrait of the Kharitonovs, a Moscow family who 'had not been handed any party favors at capitalism’s kiddie party' after the fall of the Soviet Union. -- Natasha Randall * Times Literary Supplement *The Man Who Couldn’t Die is an overlooked masterpiece of post-Soviet prose by one of contemporary Russia’s most important authors. It reveals how Slavnikova’s descriptions (and Schwartz’s English equivalent) belong alongside those of Vladimir Nabokov, Iurii Olesha, and Nikolai Gogol as truly revolutionary in Russian prose. -- Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami UniversityThe Man Who Couldn’t Die is a wonderful depiction of a society in flux, and of the people caught up in these waves of change. * Tony's Reading List *Table of ContentsIntroduction by Mark LipovetskyThe Man Who Couldn’t Die
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University of Illinois Press Joanna Russ
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA PopMatters Best Non-Fiction Book of 2019 A Locus 2019 Recommended Read Finalist, non-fiction category 2020 Locus Awards, 2020 "The primary and secondary bibliographies, along with the interviews and the through coverage of Russ's work that Jones offers make this volume one that libraries public, academic, and personal should possess, especially if they have an interest in feminist literature and/or science fiction. . . . This book is a fine tool for continuing Joanna Russ's legacy." --Science Fiction Studies"In Joanna Russ,” a new survey of Russ’s work, the writer and critic Gwyneth Jones provides a helpful window into Russ’s early life." --New Yorker"An important and compact new study. . . Russ was an unfairly neglected writer, and Jones’ introduction is a great place to start learning about her." --Seattle Times"Essential reading for those interested in the history and evolution of sci-fi as a genre, and in the continued fight for diversity, inclusion, and visibility of sci-fi and pop culture more broadly." --Popmatters"It is time [Russ],was remembered and honored for her gallant, elegant and witty contribution." --Times Literary Supplement"This overview would be a particularly good introduction for undergraduates (or any interested reader) looking for a way into Russ’s career and into the gender-in-SF issues of her time." --Locus"A rigorous biography of Russ’s mind. . . . Every writer must dream of someday having a reader who reads their work the way Gwyneth Jones reads Joanna Russ." --Fantasy & Science Fiction"Gwyneth Jones's study of Russ's life and work is important reading for anyone interested in feminism, science fiction, or terrific writing. With insight and warmth, she reveals Russ to us as a brilliant, impossible person and as a groundbreaking, uncompromising writer."--Julie Phillips, author of James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon "Jones’s concise, thorough survey successfully traces the tensions and confluences between Russ’s various fields of work. Her positions as genre writer, academic, and feminist are in flux, in conversation; by creating illustrative juxtapositions within a chronological framework as well as integrating analysis with biographical detail, Jones offers insight and clarity into the difficulties that drove Russ’s career trajectory and eventual retirement from the SF field."--Brit Mandelo, author of We Wuz Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-Telling
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University of Illinois Press Joanna Russ
Book SynopsisExperimental, strange, and unabashedly feminist, Joanna Russ's groundbreaking science fiction grew out of a belief that the genre was ideal for expressing radical thought. Her essays and criticism, meanwhile, helped shape the field and still exercise a powerful influence in both SF and feminist literary studies.Award-winning author and critic Gwyneth Jones offers a new appraisal of Russ's work and ideas. After years working in male-dominated SF, Russ emerged in the late 1960s with Alyx, the uber-capable can-do heroine at the heart of Picnic on Paradise and other popular stories and books. Soon, Russ's fearless embrace of gender politics and life as an out lesbian made her a target for male outrage while feminist classics like The Female Man and The Two of Them took SF in innovative new directions. Jones also delves into Russ's longtime work as a critic of figures as diverse as Lovecraft and Cather, her foundational place in feminist fandom, important essays like Amor Vincit Foeminam, aTrade ReviewA PopMatters Best Non-Fiction Book of 2019 A Locus 2019 Recommended Read Finalist, non-fiction category 2020 Locus Awards, 2020 "The primary and secondary bibliographies, along with the interviews and the through coverage of Russ's work that Jones offers make this volume one that libraries public, academic, and personal should possess, especially if they have an interest in feminist literature and/or science fiction. . . . This book is a fine tool for continuing Joanna Russ's legacy." --Science Fiction Studies"In Joanna Russ,” a new survey of Russ’s work, the writer and critic Gwyneth Jones provides a helpful window into Russ’s early life." --New Yorker"An important and compact new study. . . Russ was an unfairly neglected writer, and Jones’ introduction is a great place to start learning about her." --Seattle Times"Essential reading for those interested in the history and evolution of sci-fi as a genre, and in the continued fight for diversity, inclusion, and visibility of sci-fi and pop culture more broadly." --Popmatters"It is time [Russ],was remembered and honored for her gallant, elegant and witty contribution." --Times Literary Supplement"This overview would be a particularly good introduction for undergraduates (or any interested reader) looking for a way into Russ’s career and into the gender-in-SF issues of her time." --Locus"A rigorous biography of Russ’s mind. . . . Every writer must dream of someday having a reader who reads their work the way Gwyneth Jones reads Joanna Russ." --Fantasy & Science Fiction"Gwyneth Jones's study of Russ's life and work is important reading for anyone interested in feminism, science fiction, or terrific writing. With insight and warmth, she reveals Russ to us as a brilliant, impossible person and as a groundbreaking, uncompromising writer."--Julie Phillips, author of James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon "Jones’s concise, thorough survey successfully traces the tensions and confluences between Russ’s various fields of work. Her positions as genre writer, academic, and feminist are in flux, in conversation; by creating illustrative juxtapositions within a chronological framework as well as integrating analysis with biographical detail, Jones offers insight and clarity into the difficulties that drove Russ’s career trajectory and eventual retirement from the SF field."--Brit Mandelo, author of We Wuz Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-Telling
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The University of Michigan Press Continuous Pasts
Book SynopsisArgues that the post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa depicts the intricate ways in which the past is etched on bodies and topographies, resonant in silences and memorials, and continuous even in experiences as well as structures of migration.Trade ReviewWinner: 2022 Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism “Continuous Pasts offers a much-needed Africa-centered contribution to memory and trauma studies from a literary perspective, and Adebayo is just the scholar to make such a contribution. As the book reveals, he has a near encyclopedic knowledge of recent approaches to trauma and memory as well as a broad knowledge of African literature, history, culture, and criticism. This is the book we’ve been waiting for!”—Michael Rothberg, author of The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and PerpetratorsTable of Contents Introduction:The Past is Full of Ruptures 0.1 Memories of Conflict and Conflicts of Memory in Post-Colonial Africa 0.2 Postcolonial Memory Studies 0.3 Frictions of Memory 0.4 Fiction of Memory in Post-Conflict Africa 0.5 Outline of the BookChapter 1: The Past is a Contested Territory: Half of a Yellow Sun as a Postmemory Fiction 1.1 The Shadow of Biafra 1.2. Postmemory 1.3 Chimamanda Adichie as a Vicarious Witness 1.4 Aesthetics of Postmemory in Half of Yellow Sun 1.5 Remembering Back and Writing Back: The Nexus Between Postmemory and Postcolonialism in Half of a Yellow Sun 1.6 Remediation of Memory 1.7 Postmemory and the Possibility of Justice for Biafra 1.8 Concatenated Memories, Ancestral MemoriesChapter 2: The Past Continues in Silence: Memory, Complicity and the Post-Conflict Timescapes in The Memory of Love 2.1 Reading Silence 2.2 A Sense of Something Unspoken: The Memory of Love as Textual Silence 2.2 Silence of Trauma 2.3 Silence of Oppression 2.4 A Culture of Silence 2.5 Silent and Silenced Memories 2.6 Silence of Complicity 2.7 The Post-Conflict Timescapes in The Memory of LoveChapter 3: The Past Continues in Another Country: African Transnational Memory in a Migratory Setting 3.1 Immigrant Melancholia 3.2 Memory, Translocalities and Alternative Practices of Belonging in Children of the Revolution 3.3 In Search of an African Transnational MemoryChapter 4: The Past Continues through Subject Positions: Memory, Subjectivity and Secondary Witnessing in The Shadow of Imana 4.1 African Transnational Memory and the Rwandan Genocide 4.2 Sites and Sutures of Memory: Veronique Tadjo’s Affective Encounters 4.3 Memory and Positionality: Intricacies of Secondary Witnessing in The Shadow of ImanaChapter 5: The Past Continues in the Future References
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University of California Press English Heart Hindi Heartland
Book SynopsisExamines Delhi's postcolonial literary world, its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. This title undertakes a study of literary culture that probes the connections between place, language, and text.Trade Review"An indispensible account of the politics of the multilingual literary field in post-independence Delhi... It deserves to become a classic." -- Sarah Brouillette Wasafiri "[A] scholarly, readable book... Highly recommended." -- K. Tololyan CHOICE
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Harvard University Press Forget English
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewForget English! is a book that won’t allow us to forget that the globalized humanities curriculum—dispatched from Euro-America to the world at large in the guise of a user-friendly World Literature—affords a highly problematic example of what Aamir Mufti calls ‘one-world thinking.’ -- Emily Apter, author of Against World Literature: On the Politics of UntranslatabilityA must read for anyone who is considering and exploring the idea of world literature. -- Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The Naive and Sentimental NovelistAn intelligently written, fascinating book about a theme of great importance to all scholars of language and literature. -- Nuruddin Farah, winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and author of MapsWritten with Aamir Mufti’s distinctive blend of rigor and clarity, Forget English! discusses the politics of world literature from the perspective of the rise of English as a global language—or global English as a mode of imperialism by other means. This is a vital contribution at the intersection of postcolonial, comparative, and world literary studies. -- David Damrosch, author of We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the UniversityAamir Mufti brilliantly elaborates Edward Said’s critical itinerary to confront the contrapuntal and contradictory nature of neo-liberal capitalism while questioning the disciplinary claims of world literature. Forget English! is a bracing riposte to the frothy fellowship of cultural globalistas who believe that ‘the earth is flat’ and take the ubiquitous access to Starbucks as a sign of global prosperity and well-being. I warmly recommend Forget English! for its critical insight and its political commitment. -- Homi Bhabha, author of The Location of CultureMufti’s historical perspective and insightful analyses of India’s anglophone novel generate constant echoes with the realities of anglophone writings in other cultures. -- Eva Shan Chou * Times Higher Education *Mufti’s book is in one sense a quarrel with Salman Rushdie’s overly enthusiastic celebration of English-language ‘postcolonial’ South Asian literature, but more important, the book extends, qualifies, and enriches Edward Said’s work on Orientalism, demonstrating that despite its promise, world literature does not eliminate the dominant role of the Anglophone book market in shaping South Asian literature. Nested within this persuasive argument is a rich commentary on major topics ranging from translation and unfaithful fidelity to philologist Erich Auerbach, Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali, novelist Tayeb Salih (who wrote in Arabic), and a dozen others. Mufti’s book is both accessible and theoretically informed. -- K. Tölölyan * Choice *
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Princeton University Press Sacred Language Vernacular Difference
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Princeton University Press Sacred Language Vernacular Difference
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Enlightenment Hospitality Cannibals Harems and
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Still has a way of rendering her enthusiasm consistently contagious over the course of this encyclopedic study […] Still draws and builds on her prior work and deftly weaves analysis of gendered, sexual, and economic questions into her syntheses of themes.’- Eighteenth Century Fiction 25, no. 1‘In addition to being historical and critical, Still’s argument is methodological […] she does not repeat the rhetorical triangle of self-critique or the self-justifying comparison so common to Enlightenment discourses on hospitality. It is this that makes her study thickly post-colonial and feminist: instead of engaging in a guilt-driven Enlightenment critique, Still disentangles Enlightenment voices and power relations and reveals who is allowed to speak and who is silenced in the operating mechanisms of Enlightenment (in) hospitality.’- Intellect Ltd Reviews, Hospitality and Society, Vol 2 no. 1Table of Contents1. Introducing Enlightenment hospitality2. The New World: received as gods3. The New World: eating the other4. Enlightenment Persia5. Turkish travels: hospitable harems and good guests6. The other as guest: the special case of adoption and sexual predation7. Revolution and rightsConcluding questions: now and thenBibliographyIndex
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Pluto Press For Humanism Explorations in Theory and Politics
Book SynopsisThe restoration of humanism to the radical leftTrade Review'A major intervention into contemporary discussions about the resources of political hope, this volume insists upon the continuing indispensability and, indeed, radicalness of humanism as both a critical philosophy and a moral-political template' -- Neil Lazarus, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of WarwickTable of ContentsSeries Preface Introduction: Humanism’s Other Story - Timothy Brennan 1. The Rise, Decline and Possible Revival of Socialist Humanism - Barbara Epstein 2. Marxist Humanism after Structuralism and Post-structuralism: The Case for Renewal - Kevin Anderson 3. Postcolonialism is a Humanism - Robert Spencer 4. Queer Theory, Solidarity and Bodies Political - David Alderson Conclusion - David Alderson and Robert Spencer Index
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University of Nebraska Press Shades of Gray
Book Synopsis2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Shades of Gray Molly Littlewood McKibbin offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century United States. She examines the African American and white racial binary in contemporary multiracial literature to reveal the tensions and struggles of multiracialism in American life through individual consciousness, social perceptions, societal expectations, and subjective struggles with multiracial identity. McKibbin weaves a rich sociohistorical tapestry around the critically acclaimed works of Danzy Senna, Caucasia (1998); Rebecca Walker, Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (2001); Emily Raboteau, The Professor’s Daughter (2005); Rachel M. Harper, Brass Ankle Blues (2006); and Heidi Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (2010). Taking into account the social history of racial classification and the literary history oTrade Review"In this groundbreaking study of multiracialism, McKibbin . . . explores recent criticism and contemporary autobiography and fiction. . . . The author understands the political implications of her subject, and she explores President Obama's role in the reformation of concepts of mixed-race individuals. This provocative book is cautious in its claims, acknowledging that current awareness is still in its early stages and has not yet been fully incorporated into the nation's general consciousness."—T.P. Riggio, Choice“Shades of Gray deepens our understanding of how race and multiracial identities are evolving and enriches efforts to frame these evolving identities in theoretically sound and productive ways.”—Carlton D. Floyd, associate professor of English at the University of San DiegoTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Race and Mixed Race in the United States 1. “What Are You, Anyway?”: The Social Context of Racial Identity 2. Wonders of the Invisible Race: Negotiating Whiteness 3. “Black Like Me”: Negotiating Blackness 4. Mixed Ethnicity: Multiracialism as Multicultural Identity Conclusion: The (Continuing) Work of Multiracial Literature Notes Bibliography Index
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Stanford University Press Worlds Within
Book SynopsisFrom Conrad to Rushdie, from Du Bois, to Nggi, Worlds Within explores the changing form of novels, nations, and national identities, by attending to the ways in which political circumstances meet narratives of the psyche.Trade Review"Vilashini Cooppan's Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing offers a timely and expansive study of the construct of the nation that engages theoretical debates at the heart of postcolonial studies and comparative literature . . . Worlds Within offers a compelling investigation of how a series of highly influential theorists and writers have imagined the nation that, moreover, attests to the enduring profitability of psychoanalysis as a critical apparatus for comprehending the mechanisms of globalization." -- Elizabeth S. Anker * Comparative Literature Studies *"This is a book for students of English, and academics . . . This is a great addition to the role of postcolonial narratives and their place in society." -- Devin Winter * San Francisco Book Review *"The author observes that as a phantasmal projection, nationalism remains a fundamental princeiple for self-identification, working alternatively as a force of regulation and of resistance against hegemonies." * K. M. Kapanga Choice *"Worlds Within takes the risk of bringing psychoanalytical dimensions to the study of nationalism and postcoloniality—a risk I applaud—without compromising in the least either the excavating insights of social analysis or the nuanced precision of literary reading. It is a fine, bracing work, self-assured and learned, analytical and intuitive—a book that opens further the horizon of criticism." -- Stathis Gourgouris * Columbia University *"Worlds Within is beautifully written, wonderfully articulate, containing both recollection and discovery. It is a major contribution to work in postcolonial studies, comparative literature, and the field of humanities broadly conceived." -- Robert Barsky * Vanderbilt University *
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Northwestern University Press Postcolonial Disaster Narrating Catastrophe in the TwentyFirst Century Critical Insurgencies
Book SynopsisArgues that postcolonial fiction about catastrophe is underpinned by a Disaster Unconscious, a buried but mobile agenda that forces disastrous events to narrate themselves. Pallavi Rastogi writes that in disaster fiction, a literary Story and its real-life Event are in constant dialectic tension.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Black Cosmopolitanism
Book SynopsisThrough readings of slave narratives, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, newspaper editorials, and government documents including texts by Frederick Douglass and freed West Indian slave Mary Prince, Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo explicates the growing interrelatedness of people of African descent through the Americas in the nineteenth century.Trade Review"Black Cosmopolitanism seeks to tell a story about the complex hemispheric context in which multiple public discourses of blackness emerged in the work of black intellectuals, writing and publishing throughout a nineteenth century shaped by the cataclysmic impact of the Haitian revolution . . . [The book reflects] the richness of new pathways in a hemispheric American studies, moving outward to explore philosophies of race and histories of racial identity that traveled back and forth between colonial and imperial worlds." * American Literature *"Black Cosmopolitanism presents a strong, innovative case for looking back in order to look forward. . . .Nwankwo's book highlights its relevance to a varied cross section of disciplines that include, but are not limited to, African-American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, Afro-Hispanic Literature, and History of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries." * Journal of Haitian Studies *Table of ContentsPT. 1. THE MAKING OF A RACE (MAN) 1. The view from above: Placido through the eyes of the Cuban colonial government and white abolitionists 2. The view from next door: Placido through black abolitionists' eyes PT. 2. BOTH (RACE) AND (NATION)? 3. On being black and Cuban: race, nation, and romanticism in the poetry of Placido 4. "We intend to stay here": the international shadows in Frederick Douglass's representations of African American community 5. "More a Haitian than an American": Frederick Douglass and the black world beyond the United States PT. 3. NEGATING NATION, REJECTING RACE 6. A slave's cosmopolitanism: Mary Prince, a West Indian slave, and the geography of identity 7. Disidentification as identity: Juan Francisco Manzano and the flight from blackness
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University of Pennsylvania Press Multilingual Subjects
Book SynopsisDaniel DeWispelare documents how many varieties of English became sidelined as "dialects" as Standard English became dominant throughout an ever-expanding English-speaking world, while asserting the importance of both multilingualism and dialect writing to eighteenth-century anglophone culture.Trade Review"Multilingual Subjects generates provocative conversations around recent and urgent questions regarding the profession of English, offering a much-needed genealogy to the present moment of global English." * Janet Sorensen, University of California, Berkeley *"The insights contained in Multilingual Subjects are timely and will reverberate through a number of fields-including linguistic and language studies, studies of alterity, slavery and identity, and Atlantic studies-that are not often made adjacent in such a dexterous way as Daniel DeWispelare does in this fascinating 'counter-archive of the anglophone.'" * James Mulholland, North Carolina State University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Multiplicity and Relation: Toward an Anglophone Eighteenth Century Multilingual Lives: Peros, Jack, Neptune, and Cupid Chapter 1. The Multilingualism of the Other: Politics, Counterpolitics, Anglophony, and Beyond Multilingual Lives: Reverend Lyons Chapter 2. De Copia: Language, Politics, and Aesthetics Multilingual Lives: Dorothy Pentreath and William Bodener Chapter 3. De Libertate: Anglophony and the Idea of "Free" Translation Multilingual Lives: Joseph Emin Chapter 4. Literacy Fictions: Making Linguistic Difference Legible Multilingual Lives: Antera Duke Chapter 5. The "Alien Wealth" of "Lucky Contaminations": Freedom, Labor, and Translation Multilingual Lives: Sequoyah Conclusion. Anglophone Futures: Globalization and Divination, Language and the Humanities Appendix A. Selected "Dialect" Prose Appendix B. Selected "Dialect" Poetry Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments
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University of Minnesota Press Postcolonial Biology Psyche and Flesh after
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For over a decade now I have turned to Deepika Bahri's work in the confident expectation that it will surprise, instruct, and persuade. Postcolonial Biology does just that. It is interdisciplinary in the most robust sense as Bahri invites us to think 'postcolonial biology' through the lenses provided by thinkers and by modes of enquiry that are not often aggregated together. Beautifully written and a pleasure to read, it promises to unsettle the terrain of postcolonial theory and literary criticism."—Parama Roy, University of California, Davis"Bahri intends this book to bring biology—particularly the corporeal—into postcolonial discourse. She argues that to do so does not reinforce the body-mind divide; rather, it extends the notion of hybridity beyond knowledge systems to include bodily aesthetics and comportment."—CHOICETable of ContentsContentsPrologue: Oh! Calcutta!Introduction: Plasticity, Hybridity, and Postcolonial Biology1. “No Escape from Form”: Saleem’s Spittoon, Padma’s Musculature, and Neoliberal Hybridity in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children2. Shibboleth: Hybridity, Diaspora, and Passing in Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist3. Conan Doyle Plays Sherlock: The Unofficial Englishmen in Julian Barnes’s Arthur & GeorgeEpilogue: The Good LifeAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.94
Ohio University Press A Short History of Chinua Achebes Things Fall
Book SynopsisIn the accessible and concise A Short History of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Terri Ochiagha asks new questions and brings wider attention to unfamiliar but crucial elements of the story, including new insights into questions of canonicity, and into literary, historiographical, and precolonial aesthetic influences.Trade Review“Ochiagha decries the tokenist approach adopted by some Western academics who overlook the novel’s sophistication and entreats us to appreciate its subtle complexity.” * Times Literary Supplement *“Ochiagha’s work is a seminal piece presenting fresh and illuminating information to literary scholars and Africanists alike, an excellent and laudable update to a timeless classic!” * African Studies Review *
£12.99
University of Pittsburgh Press New World Postcolonial
Book SynopsisThe first full-length study to treat both parts of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's foundational text Royal Commentaries of the Incas as a seminal work of political thought in the formation of the early Americas and the early-modern period.Trade ReviewFuerst's book on Inca Garcilaso's Royal Commentaries is an important contribution to postcolonial studies. Garcilaso's masterpiece on Inca history and Spanish conquest is given a new twist by examining it from the perspective of political theory. For the first time a monograph is dedicated to study Garcilaso as a political thinker exposing ideas from the European Renaissance as well as Andean thinking."" - Christian Fernandez, Louisiana State University
£46.10
University of Hawai'i Press Modern Korean Literature An Anthology
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism
Book SynopsisExploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: History, Method, Practice offers a concise and multifaceted overview of the origins, development, and application of postcolonial criticism to biblical studies.? Offers a concise and accessible introduction to postcolonial biblical studies Provides a comprehensive overview of postcolonial studies by one of the field''s most prominent figures Explains one of the most innovative and important developments in modern biblical studies Accessible enough to appeal to general readers interested in religion Trade Review“This book is brilliantly presented with appropriate biblical texts and hermeneutical insights.” (Theology, 1 May 2012) "The book is written by the foremost scholar in this discipline, with an added chapter by, presumably, one of his students to reinforce the point." (Church Times, 21 October 2011)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. 1 Postcolonialism: Hermeneutical Journey through a Contentious Discourse. 2 The Late Arrival of the "Post": Postcolonialism and Biblical Studies. 3 Postcolonial Biblical Studies in Action: Origins and Trajectories (Ralph Broadbent). 4 Enduring Orientalism: Biblical Studies and the Repackaging of Colonial Practice. 5 Postcolonial Moments: Decentering of the Bible and Christianity. 6 The Empire Exegetes Back: Postcolonial Reading Practices. 7 Afterword: Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: The Unfinished Journey. References. Index of Scriptural References. Index of Names and Subjects.
£29.40
Temple University Press,U.S. Elusive Kinship
Book SynopsisCharacters with disabilities are often overlooked in fiction, but many occupy central places in literature by celebrated authors like Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Anita Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, and others. These authors deploy disability to do important cultural work, writes Christopher Krentz in his innovative study, Elusive Kinship. Such representations not only relate to the millions of disabled people in the global South, but also make more vivid such issues as the effects of colonialism, global capitalism, racism and sexism, war, and environmental disaster.Krentz is the first to put the fields of postcolonial studies, studies of human rights and literature, and literary disability in conversation with each other in a book-length study. He enhances our appreciation of key texts of Anglophone postcolonial literature of the global South, including Things Fall Apart and Midnight's Children. In addition, he uncovers the myriad ways fiction gains energy, Trade Review"Krentz effectively traces the evolution of disability in literature from 'a subtle, easy to miss presence' to something central to a work’s narrative, and... makes a strong case for literature as an agent of change.... [T]his book should have a spot on the shelves of literature students and scholars."—Publishers Weekly“Krentz’s triangulation of disability, postcolonial studies, and human rights is original and significant work. In lively and engaging analysis, Elusive Kinship yields important insights about the intersection of disability with trauma and the different ways in which activism and community may be constituted, while providing critical discussions of the limitations of disability rights models. This book is a welcome addition to scholarship in literary postcolonial studies and disability in global contexts.”—Clare Barker, Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, and author of Postcolonial Fiction and Disability: Exceptional Children, Metaphor and Materiality“Elusive Kinship is a vital contribution to the growing literature on the geopolitics of disability and debility. Krentz provides a lucid analysis of disabled lives in the Global South as represented in literature while also thoughtfully deconstructing the politics of knowledge production of disability studies in the Global North. Making a powerful case that postcolonial literature assists in challenging these divides, Krentz’s attention to overlooked aspects of disability offers a deep understanding, complicating and transforming what disability is and how it is lived."—Jasbir K Puar, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, and author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability"Krentz’s excellent study into the depictions of disability in postcolonial literature.... is hugely ambitious in both its scope and subject matter. Krentz’s prose is clear and highly readable, his grasp of the thorny theoretical issues with which he grapples is detailed and impressive, and the balance of classic works of postcolonial literature with lesser-known texts gives the work a broad appeal and relevance.... This study will be of interest to a wide range of scholars, including those working in disability, postcolonial, and human rights studies."—Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies"Recognizing the parallel growth of postcolonial literature and global human rights, Krentz traces how literary works published after the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights potentially informed future rights instruments, most notably the 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)…. Krentz primes readers of postcolonial fiction to read for disability, an approach that promises to uncover new dimensions even to classic works…. [H]is study does open a plethora of possibilities for future scholarship."—Twentieth-Century Literature"Krentz’s scholarly text is a brilliant work of disability studies, a brilliant work on the Global South and on current systems of power, and a brilliant consideration of twelve works of postcolonial literature. This work will become a go-to text for academics, and it will appeal equally to casual readers. Like the works of fiction that Krentz discusses, Elusive Kinship shows readers that disability visibility is important, that care ethics can be a strategic and activist antidote to oppression, and that current debates over human rights must be expanded. Hopefully, Krentz’s work will go on to spur more debates about human rights, definitions of humanity, and systematic inequalities."—Wordgathering
£21.59
Duke University Press Postcolonial Grief
Book SynopsisJinah Kim explores Asian and Asian American texts from 1945 to the present that mourn the loss of those killed by U.S. empire building and militarism in the Pacific, showing how the refusal to heal from imperial violence may help generate a transformative antiracist and decolonial politics.Trade Review"Postcolonial Grief offers a promising glimpse into what it might look like to pursue comparative or relational area studies through an anticolonial orientation." -- Emily Mitchell-Eaton * Society & Space *"Postcolonial Grief powerfully uncovers overlapping histories of violence across the Pacific and carefully considers the relationship between grief, silencing, and reconciliation. Kim convincingly demonstrates the way that melancholia and loss constitute powerful forces in the Pacific as wounds that refuse to heal yet open up new (im)possibilities for relating to violence outside of liberal humanist frameworks of reconciliation. Postcolonial Grief is thus invaluable for those interested in affect studies, settler colonial studies, cultural studies, communication, and Asian-American history." -- Corinne Mitsuye Sugino * Lateral *“The book is a powerful exploration of how unmourned and unresolved deaths across the transpacific haunt the present, offering possibilities for political transformations. Analyzing the ghostly and capturing them into words is a challenging academic endeavor, which this book accomplishes robustly, making interventions across diasporic studies, critical race theories, feminist studies, cultural studies, and Asian American studies and Latinx studies.” -- Hayana Kim * Situations *“In this provocative book, Jinah Kim explores the ways in which trans-Pacific victims of imperial colonial politics and militarism have navigated their relationships with decolonial politics since World War II, and the ensuing psychological transformations…. This is an important contribution, and should be read by not only students and scholars of literature and history, but also those from Asian American and East Asian studies, anthropology, sociology, and political science.” -- Nobuko Adachi * Pacific Affairs *“Postcolonial Grief covers new ground by providing a new understanding of the biopolitical regime of mourning in the Pacific and...by beautifully weaving transdisciplinary archives together to produce a richly documented and mind awakening volume.” -- Tian Li * Journal of Asian Studies *“In this ambitious book, Jinah Kim challenges existing geographies and conceptual frameworks by highlighting what she calls the Pacific Arena as a critical imaginative geography.... Kim succeeds in exposing liberal nation-states’ silence about the violent past.” -- Jane Im * MELUS *“Guided by comparative, relational, and critical juxtaposing perspectives, Postcolonial Grief powerfully names the interimperial complicity between U.S. and Japanese imperialisms in the Pacific and places the experiences and representations of Korean and Japanese diasporas in the Americas in conversation with other displaced and marginalized peoples.” -- Yên Lê Espiritu * Journal of World History *“In Postcolonial Grief, Kim moves skillfully to the core of the affective economy underlying Asian American studies as a growing field of research and a site of justice and equality.... This is a bold, sympathetic, and well-informed book.” -- B. G. Chang * Choice *“Kim’s deft textual analysis brings into high relief the depth and breadth of grief accompanying the deferment of decolonization in certain spaces and for certain communities.... Postcolonial Grief trenchantly and persuasively shows the failures of US liberalism abroad and at home.” -- Jeehyun Lim * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Mourning Empire 1 1. Melancholy Violence: Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth and Hisaye Yamamato's "A Fire in Fontana" 23 2. Haunting Absence: Racial Cognitive Mapping, Interregnum, and the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 41 3. Transpacific Noir, Dying Colonialism 66 4. Destined for Death: Antigone along the Pacific Rim 88 Epilogue. Watery Graves 110 Notes 115 Bibliography 153 Index 175
£86.70
Duke University Press Postcolonial Grief
Book SynopsisJinah Kim explores Asian and Asian American texts from 1945 to the present that mourn the loss of those killed by U.S. empire building and militarism in the Pacific, showing how the refusal to heal from imperial violence may help generate a transformative antiracist and decolonial politics.Trade Review"Postcolonial Grief offers a promising glimpse into what it might look like to pursue comparative or relational area studies through an anticolonial orientation." -- Emily Mitchell-Eaton * Society & Space *"Postcolonial Grief powerfully uncovers overlapping histories of violence across the Pacific and carefully considers the relationship between grief, silencing, and reconciliation. Kim convincingly demonstrates the way that melancholia and loss constitute powerful forces in the Pacific as wounds that refuse to heal yet open up new (im)possibilities for relating to violence outside of liberal humanist frameworks of reconciliation. Postcolonial Grief is thus invaluable for those interested in affect studies, settler colonial studies, cultural studies, communication, and Asian-American history." -- Corinne Mitsuye Sugino * Lateral *“The book is a powerful exploration of how unmourned and unresolved deaths across the transpacific haunt the present, offering possibilities for political transformations. Analyzing the ghostly and capturing them into words is a challenging academic endeavor, which this book accomplishes robustly, making interventions across diasporic studies, critical race theories, feminist studies, cultural studies, and Asian American studies and Latinx studies.” -- Hayana Kim * Situations *“In this provocative book, Jinah Kim explores the ways in which trans-Pacific victims of imperial colonial politics and militarism have navigated their relationships with decolonial politics since World War II, and the ensuing psychological transformations…. This is an important contribution, and should be read by not only students and scholars of literature and history, but also those from Asian American and East Asian studies, anthropology, sociology, and political science.” -- Nobuko Adachi * Pacific Affairs *“Postcolonial Grief covers new ground by providing a new understanding of the biopolitical regime of mourning in the Pacific and...by beautifully weaving transdisciplinary archives together to produce a richly documented and mind awakening volume.” -- Tian Li * Journal of Asian Studies *“In this ambitious book, Jinah Kim challenges existing geographies and conceptual frameworks by highlighting what she calls the Pacific Arena as a critical imaginative geography.... Kim succeeds in exposing liberal nation-states’ silence about the violent past.” -- Jane Im * MELUS *“Guided by comparative, relational, and critical juxtaposing perspectives, Postcolonial Grief powerfully names the interimperial complicity between U.S. and Japanese imperialisms in the Pacific and places the experiences and representations of Korean and Japanese diasporas in the Americas in conversation with other displaced and marginalized peoples.” -- Yên Lê Espiritu * Journal of World History *“In Postcolonial Grief, Kim moves skillfully to the core of the affective economy underlying Asian American studies as a growing field of research and a site of justice and equality.... This is a bold, sympathetic, and well-informed book.” -- B. G. Chang * Choice *“Kim’s deft textual analysis brings into high relief the depth and breadth of grief accompanying the deferment of decolonization in certain spaces and for certain communities.... Postcolonial Grief trenchantly and persuasively shows the failures of US liberalism abroad and at home.” -- Jeehyun Lim * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Mourning Empire 1 1. Melancholy Violence: Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth and Hisaye Yamamato's "A Fire in Fontana" 23 2. Haunting Absence: Racial Cognitive Mapping, Interregnum, and the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 41 3. Transpacific Noir, Dying Colonialism 66 4. Destined for Death: Antigone along the Pacific Rim 88 Epilogue. Watery Graves 110 Notes 115 Bibliography 153 Index 175
£22.79
New York University Press Haitis Paper War
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewChelsea Stieber recovers the diverse landscape of political thought that developed in the postindependence era and persisted well into the 20th century. In doing so, Stieber’s carefully argued scholarship provides necessary nuance to our understandings of the internal dynamics of Haitian history and the manifold implications of Haiti’s political significance to the world. * Public Books *An extraordinary work of revisionist Haitian historiography that offers us an incredible challenge: Chelsea Stieber’s intervention of the ‘paper war’ forces us to reconsider how the study of literature, and the very nature of critique, must remain central to our understandings of empire and abolition. With great aplomb, Haiti’s Paper War powerfully upends the very myth of the Haitian Revolution’s singularity. -- Jeremy Matthew Glick, author of The Black Radical TragicChelsea Stieber presents a powerful and cogently argued account of the crucial role of literary writing in shaping the independent nation of Haiti following the Haitian Revolution. Haiti’s Paper War has significant ramifications for the larger field of literary and postcolonial studies— it speaks to the political work that informs the emergence of the ‘literary’ as a category. Stieber’s contribution is masterfully argued, relentlessly sharp, and insightful. A groundbreaking work. -- Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649–1849Writing in the precise, evocative language of a masterful chronicler, Stieber examines Haiti’s volatile post-independence struggles in governing. What makes this study particularly significant, and singular, is Stieber’s exhaustive examination of primary source material ... Through her critical analyses of writing as a tool to shape a nation, Stieber unveils the multilayered meanings of liberté that defined Haiti from its declaration of independence in 1804 to the mid-20th century. Essential. * Choice *A formidable study of Haiti’s political and literary evolution over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- Kaiama L. Glover, Barnard College * H-France Review *Writing in the precise, evocative language of a masterful chronicler, Stieber examines Haiti’s volatile post-independence struggles in governing ... What makes this study particularly significant, and singular, is Stieber’s exhaustive examination of primary source material ... Essential. * Choice *
£73.80
New York University Press Haitis Paper War
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewChelsea Stieber recovers the diverse landscape of political thought that developed in the postindependence era and persisted well into the 20th century. In doing so, Stieber’s carefully argued scholarship provides necessary nuance to our understandings of the internal dynamics of Haitian history and the manifold implications of Haiti’s political significance to the world. * Public Books *An extraordinary work of revisionist Haitian historiography that offers us an incredible challenge: Chelsea Stieber’s intervention of the ‘paper war’ forces us to reconsider how the study of literature, and the very nature of critique, must remain central to our understandings of empire and abolition. With great aplomb, Haiti’s Paper War powerfully upends the very myth of the Haitian Revolution’s singularity. -- Jeremy Matthew Glick, author of The Black Radical TragicChelsea Stieber presents a powerful and cogently argued account of the crucial role of literary writing in shaping the independent nation of Haiti following the Haitian Revolution. Haiti’s Paper War has significant ramifications for the larger field of literary and postcolonial studies— it speaks to the political work that informs the emergence of the ‘literary’ as a category. Stieber’s contribution is masterfully argued, relentlessly sharp, and insightful. A groundbreaking work. -- Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649–1849Writing in the precise, evocative language of a masterful chronicler, Stieber examines Haiti’s volatile post-independence struggles in governing. What makes this study particularly significant, and singular, is Stieber’s exhaustive examination of primary source material ... Through her critical analyses of writing as a tool to shape a nation, Stieber unveils the multilayered meanings of liberté that defined Haiti from its declaration of independence in 1804 to the mid-20th century. Essential. * Choice *A formidable study of Haiti’s political and literary evolution over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- Kaiama L. Glover, Barnard College * H-France Review *Writing in the precise, evocative language of a masterful chronicler, Stieber examines Haiti’s volatile post-independence struggles in governing ... What makes this study particularly significant, and singular, is Stieber’s exhaustive examination of primary source material ... Essential. * Choice *
£23.74
University of Toronto Press Beautiful Untrue Things
Book SynopsisBeautiful Untrue Things explores the astonishing flurry of Oscar Wilde forgeries that circulated in the early twentieth century, offering an innovative reading that considers literary forgery a form of fan fiction.Trade Review"The study illuminates in meticulous detail the paradoxical relationship between forgery and authenticity in the Wildean sense: a good fake makes a good original. In four chapters Mackie maps out the structures of the meta-canon of Wilde’s literary afterlife." -- Katharina Herold * The Wildean *"Beautiful Untrue Things offers an insightful and fascinating exploration of Wilde’s many afterlives. Through well-selected case studies, Mackie illuminates key forgers, while introducing a myriad of others for further and future exploration. For readers new to Wilde and unfamiliar with his literary and theatrical oeuvre, Mackie offers necessary background to introduce his life and writing. For scholars of Wilde, Victorian literature, or Modernism, Beautiful Untrue Things provides an incisive discussion of this key figure, by both resituating him within his cultural context and reframing him for twenty-first century readers." -- Brittany Reid * The Ormsby Review *"Mackie's study is certainly both extensively researched and beautifully written; his own fandom may be sensed in his allusive prose and clever headings. This book represents a substantial contribution to the study of Wilde's afterlife and itself demonstrates the attraction of adding to Wilde's story." -- Aaron Eames * Romance, Revolution & Reform *"Beautiful Untrue Things offers an insightful and fascinating exploration of Wilde’s many afterlives. Through well-selected case studies, Mackie illuminates key forgers, while introducing a myriad of others for further and future exploration. For readers new to Wilde and unfamiliar with his literary and theatrical oeuvre, Mackie offers necessary background to introduce his life and writing. For scholars of Wilde, Victorian literature, or Modernism, Beautiful Untrue Things provides an incisive discussion of this key figure, by both resituating him within his cultural context and reframing him for twenty-first century readers. By focusing on the forgers rather than the forged subject, Mackie details the processes of myth-making and not their hagiographic results." -- Brittany Reid * The Ormsby Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Truth of Fakes 1. The Importance of Being Authentic 2. The Picture of Dorian Hope 3. Pen, Pencil, and Planchette 4. The Devoted Fraud Conclusion: The Teacher of Fandom Notes Bibliography
£50.15
University of Toronto Press Hidden Paradigms
Book SynopsisBuilding on a South Asian oral folk legend, Hidden Paradigms identifies the important symbolic patterns that well-known epic stories while also suggesting fresh strategies for further discovery.Table 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
£52.70
University of Nebraska Press The Migrant Canon in TwentyFirstCentury France
Book Synopsis The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France explains the causes of twenty-first-century global migrations and their impact on French literature and the French literary establishment. A marginal genre in 1980s France, since the turn of the century “migrant literature” has become central to criticism and publishing. Oana Sabo addresses previously unanswered questions about the proliferation of contemporary migrant texts and their shifting themes and forms, mechanisms of literary legitimation, and notions of critical and commercial achievement. Through close readings of novels (by Mathias Énard, Milan Kundera, Dany Laferrière, Henri Lopès, Andreï Makine, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Alice Zeniter, and others) and sociological analyses of their consecrating authorities (including the Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée, the Académie française, publishing houses, and online reviewers), Sabo argues Trade Review"The Migrant Canon is well researched and written in a style that is genuinely engaging. This study of the interplay of national, global, and literary issues should interest all scholars of literature in French."—D. L. Boudreau, Choice"Students and scholars of the Migrant Novel and of Francophone literature will read this book with great interest. This book is especially valuable for Sabo's impressive lists of Migrant Novels. These lists, which are included in various chapters, can readily be translated into reading lists for students. . . . This book is a welcome addition to French and Francophone studies."—Felisa Vergara Reynolds, H-France"Sabo's book proposes original avenues for understanding contemporary French literature at a time of transition: the field is increasingly heterogeneous, heteroglossic, and interdisciplinary, and its commercial expansion and viability are accelerated by a rising number of translations from and into French. This ambitious study raises complex and timely questions in informed and perceptive ways."—Patricia-Pia Célérier, French Studies"The Migrant Canon is a must-read for scholars of migration, French and francophone literature, of postcolonial studies, and of global (literary) studies."—Julianna Blair Watson, Modern Philology“An elegant, rigorous, intellectually invigorating examination of migrant literature, a genre that has worked its way from the margins to the center of cultural debate in recent years. Sabo asks crucial questions about art, society, and nation.”—Warren Motte, College Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of Mirror Gazing “Drawing on a rich corpus of translingual and migrant writing, Oana Sabo provides a compelling analysis of how recent literature in French has addressed questions of contemporary mobility. She focuses on editorial practices, reception, and forms of literary consecration in order to investigate the emergence of a remarkable body of writing that the terms ‘Francophone’ and ‘postcolonial’ can no longer fully contain. This is a subtle and searching study that will prove invaluable for scholars and students alike.”—Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool “This study will rock the boat and become a source of reference. . . . It constitutes a major contribution to the field of francophone studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and global studies. It will serve as a springboard for scholars and teachers of the francophone field as they make their selections of texts and authors. It is original, well-researched, and timely.”—Martine Natat Antle, McCaughey Chair of French Studies at the University of SydneyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The French Literary Field in the New Millennium 1. Production: Publishing Houses and Their Marketing Practices 2. Reception: Online Readers in the Global Literary Marketplace 3. Consecration: The Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée and Its Migrant Archive 4. Canonization: Dany Laferrière at the Académie française Conclusion: French Migrant Literature in a Global Context Notes References Index
£35.10
University of Nebraska Press Postcolonial Hauntologies
Book SynopsisPostcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual female body into their disciplines, colonial representations of African women’s sexuality “haunt” contemporary postcolonial African scholarship, which—by maintaining a culture of avoidance about women’s sexuality—generates a discursive conscription that ultimately holds the female body hostage. Ayo A. Coly employs the concepts of “hauntology” and “ghostly matters” to formulate an explicative framework in which to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as a theoretical framework for discerning the elusive and cautious presences of female sexuality in the texts of African women. In illuminating the pervasive silence abouTrade Review“Coly makes her points with minimal jargon, using numerous beautifully illustrated and carefully explained examples from literature, dress code debates, photography, videography, and performance art from all over sub-Saharan Africa. . . . Coly’s analyses of individual pieces are nuanced and sensitive to varied (and contentious) interpretive possibilities. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in African, African diaspora, postcolonial, performance, gender, queer, and sexuality studies.”—A. H. Koblitz, Choice “These wide-ranging examples from African women’s literature and visual and performance arts, and Ayo Coly’s extended analyses of them, copiously support her arguments concerning colonial images of African women’s bodies and sexuality, the concept of hauntology, and efforts to counter such postcolonial ‘ghosts’ from the past. Postcolonial Hauntologies is a thought-provoking and extremely well-researched work.”—Elisha Renne, author of Cloth That Does Not Die: The Meaning of Cloth in Bunu Social Life“This essential analysis of literature and art in a single African woman–centered study fills an urgent void. This is a book that breaks ‘the silences of African feminist criticism on the sexual female body.’ I don’t think there has been such important scholarship in African feminism since the works of Oyèwùmí and Amadiume were written ten and twenty years ago, respectively. This rare and much-needed crossover study answers an important call by going beyond literature to incorporate comparative studies of the arts at the same time.”—Cheryl Toman, author of Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and HerstoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The African Female Body: From Colonial Inscription to Postcolonial Conscription 2. Haunted Silences: African Feminist Criticism and the Specter of Sarah Baartman 3. Spectral Female Sexualities: The Politics of Sexual Pleasure in Women’s Literatures 4. Subversive and Pedagogical Hauntologies: The Unclothed Female Body in Visual and Performance Arts 5. Laying Specters to Rest? On Bringing Sarah Baartman Home Conclusion Notes References Index
£31.50
University of Nebraska Press The Author as Cannibal
Book SynopsisAfter French colonial rule ended, Francophone authors began rewriting narratives from the colonial literary canon. Felisa Vergara Reynolds presents these textual revisions as figurative acts of cannibalism and examines how these literary cannibalizations critique colonialism and its legacy in each author's homeland.Trade Review“Felisa Vergara Reynolds sheds an exciting light on Francophone literature. Her work brilliantly displays the common movement originated by authors who subvert the colonial lens by using its codes and transform them into the tools of its critique.”—Rokhaya Diallo, French journalist, writer, filmmaker, and activist for racial, gender, and religious equality “Felisa Vergara Reynolds’s impressive postcolonial reading of the author as cannibal strategically locates literary rewriting as a political form of protest, resistance, and reappropriation. . . . From rewriting and reclaiming the historical record to the inscription of subjectivity through the privileging of formerly marginalized perspectives to reversing the power dynamic intrinsic to the Eurocentric gaze, Reynolds peels back the veil of colonial ‘camouflage’—with its histories of domination, exclusion, and misrepresentation—to denounce colonial authoritarianism and reveal a set of counternarratives that imbue the formerly colonized with agency and the right to self-representation.”—H. Adlai Murdoch, author of Creolizing the Metropole: Migrant Caribbean Identities in Literature and FilmTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: “Almost the Same, but Not Quite” / “Almost the Same, but Not White”; or, The Author as Cannibal 1. Aimé Césaire’s Une tempête, Cannibalizing Shakespeare’s The Tempest; or, Who’s Laughing Now? 2. Boubacar Boris Diop’s Le temps de Tamango, a Postmodern Cannibalization; or, Penetrating “Fortress Europe” 3. Assia Djebar’s L’amour, la fantasia, a Historiographic Cannibalization; or, Dismantling/Decolonizing History 4. Maryse Condé’s La migration des cœurs, Cannibalizing Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights; or, a Sublime Phagocytosis Conclusion: The Future of Literary Cannibalism; or, Addressing the Lingering Questions Appendix: Interviews with Maryse Condé Notes References Index
£45.00
Cornell University Press Fictions of Dignity
Book SynopsisOver the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory. Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal El Saadawi have used the novel to explore both the possibilities and challenges of enacting and protecting human rights, particularly in the Global South. In Fictions of Dignity, Elizabeth S. Anker shows how the dual enabling fictions of human dignity and bodily integrity contribute to an anxiety about the body that helps to explain many of the contemporary and historical failures of human rights, revealing why and how lives are excluded from human rights protections along the lines of race, gender, class, disability, and species membership. In the process, Anker examines the vital work performed by a particular kind of narrative imagination in fostering respect for human rights. Drawing on phenomenology, Anker suggests how an embodied politics of reading might restore a vital fleshiness to the overly abTrade ReviewFictions of Dignity is a distinctive contribution to the growing body of scholarship concerned with the relationship between human rights and novels. -- Emily Hogg * New Formations *In her analysis of 'the vocabulary of human rights,' Anker... interrogates the liberal/Enlightenment tradition that values the intellect over the body. She regards this preference, one that stretches from Plato to Descartes, as dismissive of corporeal and indigenous factors. Hence, imperialism emphasizes the 'barbarism' of the global south, patriarchy stresses the weakness of women's bodies to justify their suppression, society categorizes animals as unconscious ‘carnal being[s],’ and large political bodies ignore smaller interests in implementing justice. Anker discusses four works that engage these stances.... [Readers] will be intrigued and challenged by Anker's critique. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *The passion and commitment Anker shows in taking liberalism to task for its complicity in perpetrating the very atrocities its own human rights programmes seek to end is a vital one. * Interventions: Intl Jrnl of Postcol. Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Constructs by Which We Live1. Bodily Integrity and Its Exclusions2. Embodying Human Rights: Toward a Phenomenology of Social Justice3. Constituting the Liberal Subject of Rights: Salman Rushdie's Midnight’s Children4. Women’s Rights and the Lure of Self-Determination in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero5. J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: The Rights of Desire and the Embodied Lives of Animals6. Arundhati Roy’s "Return to the Things Themselves": Phenomenology and the Challenge of JusticeCoda: Small Places, Close to HomeNotes Works Cited Index
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Cornell University Press Writing in Limbo
Book SynopsisIn Simon Gikandi's view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernitya relationship in which the Caribbean writer, unable to escape a history encoded by Europe, accepts the challenge of rewriting it. Drawing on contemporary deconstructionist theory, Gikandi looks at how such Caribbean writers as George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, Alejo Carpentier, C. L. R. James, Paule Marshall, Merle Hodge, Zee Edgell, and Michelle Cliff have attempted to confront European modernism.Trade ReviewGikandi’s pursuit of his broader conception of ‘Caribbean modernism’ pays ample dividends in the space it gives him to read the novels with something like the detailed attention they all deserve but rarely enjoy. Writing in Limbo takes the fiction of the Caribbean seriously and helps integrate its study into a wider American problematic. This is a powerfully argued book written in a limpid style. It marks its terrain with great assurance and conducts its textual analyses with a fine attention to detail. Writing in Limbo is the best book on its topic and a significant advance in the criticism of Caribbean literature. -- Peter Hulme * NWIG: New West Indian Guide *
£15.99
Stanford University Press The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the
Book SynopsisWorld War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period, racism was situated for the first time at the center of international political life, and race's status as conceptual common sense and a justification for colonial rule was challenged with new intensity. In response to this crisis of race, the UN and UNESCO initiated a project of racial reeducation. This global antiracist campaign was framed by the persecution of Europe's Jews and anchored by UNESCO's epochal 1950 Statement on Race, which redefined the race concept and canonized the midcentury liberal antiracist consensus that continues to shape our present. In this book, Sonali Thakkar tells the story of how UNESCO's race project directly influenced anticolonial thought and made Jewish difference and the Holocaust enduring preoccupations for anticolonial and postcolonial writers. Drawing on UNESCO's rich archival resources and shifting between the scientific, social scientific, literary, and cultural, Thakkar offers new readings of a varied collection of texts from the postcolonial, Jewish, and Black diasporic traditions. Anticolonial thought and postcolonial literature critically recast liberal scientific antiracism, Thakkar argues, and the concepts central to this new moral economy were the medium for postcolonialism's engagement with Jewishness. By recovering these connections, she shows how the midcentury crisis of racial meaning shaped the kinds of solidarities between racialized subjects that are thinkable today.Trade Review"The Reeducation of Raceis a brilliant and original study of liberalism, racial formation, and anticolonial thought. Ambitious, wide-ranging, and provocative, the book brings together fields of study too often siloed, anchored by a virtuoso reading of the UNESCO Statement on Race. Thakkar's confident and lucid voice rethinks race and plasticity forever."—Yogita Goyal, University of California, Los Angeles"Through the unlikely lens of post-World War II UNESCO, this book provides real and really new insight into the attempt to recover a liberal postwar order after the racial horror of World War II, and into the limitations of institutional antiracism in those same years. It will be a landmark contribution to the current effort to articulate the politics of Jewishness with both Black and anticolonial theory. We will be reading it carefully in the years to come."—Jonathan Boyarin, Cornell University"Sonali Thakkar's brilliant first book begins as a mystery of sorts. When and why did the word 'equality' get swapped out of the 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race, to be replaced by 'educability, plasticity'? Answering that question sheds important light on how the colonialist legacy tainted the liberal anti-racism of the postwar period."—John Plotz, Public BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Reeducation of Race 1. Rupture and Renewal 2. The Racial Residuum 3. Culture and Conversion 4. Reeducation as Repair Coda: The Waning Consensus Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Homesickness: Of Trauma and the Longing for Place
Book SynopsisIntroducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S. literature after 1945 In the Anthropocene, as climate change renders environments less stable, the human desire for place underscores the weakness of the individual in the face of the world. In this book, Ryan Hediger introduces a distinctive notion of homesickness, one in which the longing for place demonstrates not only human vulnerability but also intersubjectivity beyond the human. Arguing that this feeling is unavoidable and characteristically posthumanist, Hediger studies the complex mix of attitudes toward home, the homely, and the familiar in an age of resurgent cosmopolitanism, especially eco-cosmopolitanism. Homesickness closely examines U.S. literature mostly after 1945, including prominent writers such as Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson, and Ernest Hemingway, in light of the challenges and themes of the Anthropocene. Hediger argues that our desire for home is shorthand for a set of important hopes worth defending—serious and genuine relationships to places and their biotic regimes and landforms; membership in vital cultures, human and nonhuman; resistance to capital-infused forms of globalization that flatten differences and turn life and place into mere resources. Our homesickness, according to Hediger, is inevitable because the self is necessarily constructed with reference to the material past. Therefore, homesickness is not something to dismiss as nostalgic or reactionary but is rather a structure of feeling to come to terms with and even to cultivate.Recasting an expansive range of fields through the lens of homesickness—from ecocriticism to animal studies and disability studies, (eco)philosophy to posthumanist theory—Homesickness speaks not only to the desire for a physical structure or place but also to a wide range of longings and dislocations, including those related to subjectivity, memory, bodies, literary form, and language. Trade Review"For anyone who’s felt alienated from a mall, a suburb, a landscape, a culture, or our shared biosphere, this book offers homesickness as a powerful human desire, a mode of interpretation, a corrective to increased mobility, consumer capitalism, and utopian cosmopolitanism, and a hopeful sensibility that connects us with others—exactly what we need in our troubled times."—Jennifer Ladino, author of Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature"Ryan Hediger richly brings to life the feelings of homesickness that infuse cultural production amid the dislocations of capitalism, warfare, and the Anthropocene. His deeply researched and beautifully written book illuminates the experiences of weakness, mortality, and desire for home that have often been overlooked in the environmental humanities."—Teresa Shewry, author of Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature "Ryan Hediger’s Homesickness is an intriguing book that proposes its titular concept as a master category for reading twentieth- and twenty-first-century US art, particularly fiction and films."—ALH Online Review
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Kent State University Press Translation in African Contexts: Postcolonial
Book SynopsisAuthor Evan Maina Mwangi explores the intersection of translation, sexuality, and cosmopolitan ethics in African literature. Usually seen as the preserve of literature published by Euro-American metropolitan outlets for Western consumption, cultural translation is also a recurrent theme in postcolonial African texts produced primarily for local circulation and sometimes in African languages. Mwangi illustrates how such texts allude to various forms of translation to depict the ethical relations to foreigners and the powerless, including sexual minorities. He also explains the popularity of uent models of translation in African literature, regardless of the energetic critique of such models by Western-based postcolonial theorists. While bringing to the foreground texts that have received little critical attention in African literary studies, Translation in African Contexts engages a wide range of foundational and postcolonial translation theorists. It considers a rich variety of works, including East African translations of Shakespeare, writings by Ng?g? wa Thiong’o and Gakaara wa Wanja?, a popular novel by Charles Mangua, and a stage adaptation by the Tanzanian playwright Amandina Lihamba, among others.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Space and Place in Alice Munro's Fiction: A Book
Book SynopsisNew essays engaging with the developing field of literary geography to devote attention to the "regional" settings of Munro's stories and how they affect her characters' development or stasis. Alice Munro, the 2013 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, has revolutionized the architecture of the short story. This collection of essays on Munro engages with literary geography, an emergent interdisciplinary field that is located at the interface between human geography and literary studies and is one of the most salient manifestations of the ongoing spatial turn in the arts and humanities. Critical readings of Munro's stories have labeled her literary production "regional," since she sets the majority of her short stories in the area of rural Ontario where she grew up. Until now, however, little attention has been devoted to the role of that location in the stories and tothe way that particular setting interacts with her characters' development or stasis. This collection contains eleven essays organized in two parts: first, Conceptualizing Space and Place: Houses, Landscapes, Territory; and second, Close Readings of Space and Place. Contributors: Corinne Bigot, Lynn Blin, Giuseppina Botta, Fausto Ciompi, Ailsa Cox, Christine Lorre-Johnston, Robert McGill, Claire Omhovère, Anca-Raluca Radu, Eleonora Rao, Caterina Ricciardi. Christine Lorre-Johnston is a senior lecturer in English at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. Eleonora Rao teaches English and American literatures at the University of Salerno.Trade Review[B]ooks such as Space and Place in Alice Munro's Fiction may find grateful readerships not only in experienced Canadianists, and especially Munrovians, but also among the younger generation of readers and scholars . Space and Place in Alice Munro's Fiction is a praiseworthy effort and an invitation to further debates. * THE CANADIAN REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/REVUE CANADIENNE DE LITTÉRATURE COMPARÉE *[T]hese articles generate valuable new insights, informed by spatial theory concepts and a new critical vocabulary. * BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANADIAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Christine Lorre-Johnston and Eleonora Rao Where Do You Think You Are? Alice Munro's Open Houses - Robert McGill "Whose House Is That?" Spaces of Metamorphosis in Alice Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades, Who Do You Think You Are?, and The View from Castle Rock - Eleonora Rao Mapping the Vernacular Landscape in Alice Munro's "What Do You Want to Know For?" and Other Stories - Corinne Bigot Stories in the Landscape Mode: A Reading of Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women," "Walker Brothers Cowboy," and "Lichen" - Claire Omhovère "What Place Is This?" Alice Munro's Fictional Places and Her Place in Fiction - Anca-Raluca Radu "The Emptiness in Place of Her": Space, Absence, and Memory in Alice Munro's Dear Life - Ailsa Cox Down the Rabbit Hole: Revisiting the Topos of the Cave in Alice Munro's Short Stories - Christine Lorre-Johnston Spaces of Utopia and Spaces of Actuality in Alice Munro's "Jakarta" - Fausto Ciompi Spatial Perspectives in Alice Munro's "Passion" - Giuseppina Botta Charting Alice Munro's Terra Incognita: Punctuated Space in "Free Radicals" - Lynn Blin Heterotopy in Alice Munro's "In Sight of the Lake" - Caterina Ricciardi
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Rethinking Modern Polish Identities:
Book SynopsisA critical examination of the category of "Polishness" - that is, the formation, redefinition, and performance of various kinds of Polish identities - from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Inspired by new research in the humanities and social sciences as well as recent scholarship on national identities, this volume offers a rigorous examination of the idea of Polishness. Offering a diversity of case studies and methodological-theoretical approaches, it demonstrates a profound connection between national and transnational processes and places the Polish case in a broader context. This broader context stretches from a larger Eastern European one, a usual frame of comparison, to the overseas immigrant communities. The authors, renowned scholars from Europe and the United States, thus demonstrate that an understanding of modern Polish identity means crossing not only historical but also geographical boundaries. Consequently, the narrative on Polish identity that unfolds in the volume is a personalized and multivocal one that presents the perspectives of a wide range of subjects: peasants, workers, migrants, ethnic and sexual minorities-that is, all those actors who have been absent in grand national narratives. As such, the examination of Polishness sheds light on the identity question more broadly, emphasizing the interplay of pluralizing and homogenizing tendencies, and fostering a reflection on national identity as encompassing both sameness and difference.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Polishness. A Story of Sameness and Difference Agnieszka Pasieka Part One: Redefining Polishness 1: The Birth of the "Polak-Katolik" Brian Porter-Szűcs 2: Vita Magistra Historiae? The Case of A. B. Paweł Bukowiec 3: An Anti-ImperialCivilizingMission: ClaimingVolhynia for the Early Second Republic Kathryn Ciancia 4: Suspicious Origins as a Category of Polish Culture Irena Grudzińska-Gross 5: Redefining Polishness through Jewishness Geneviève Zubrzycki Part Two: Identity in the Making 6: Human Mobility and the Creation of a Transatlantic Polish Culture Keely Stauter-Halsted 7: "Good Americans" and Polish Modern Identity Construction after World War I Krystyna Lipińska Illakowicz 8: From "True Believers" to "Cultural Feminists": Polish Identity and Women's Emancipation in post-1945 and post-1989 Poland Magdalena Grabowska 9: Labor, Gender, and Interethnic Relations among Polish-American Communities in Rural Massachusetts Agnieszka Pasieka 10: Being European in Poland and Polish in Europe: Transnational Constructions of National Identity Marysia Galbraith Part Three: Portraits and Performances11: Views of Polishness: Style and Representation in Local and National Exhibitions Małgorzata Litwinowicz 12: Plebeian, Populist, Post-Enlightenment-Mass Sarmatism and Its Political Forms Przemysław Czapliński 13: The Polish Connection: Lithuanian Music and the Warsaw Autumn Festival Lisa Jakelski 14: Performing Polishness Abroad: (Non-)Polish Actors and the Construction of (Trans)National Identities in European Cinema Kris Van Heuckelom 15: "Poles-Their Own Portraits" Revisited: Taking a Critical Stand Ryszard Koziołek Afterword: Polishness. A Time of Deconstruction, a Time of Reconstruction Paweł Rodak Editors and Contributors Index
£85.00
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in
Book SynopsisMultispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature considers relationships between animals and humans in the iconic spaces of postcolonial India: the wild, the body, the home, and the city. Using a diverse range of texts, including fiction, journalism, life writing, film, and visual art, this book argues that a uniquely Indian way of being modern is born in these spaces of disorderly multispecies living.Bringing together the fields of animal studies and postcolonial studies, Multispecies Modernity explores how these fields can complicate and enrich one another. Each chapter considers a zone of proximity between human and nonhuman beings. These spaces link animal-human relations to a politics of postcolonial identity by transgressing the logics of modernity imposed on the postcolonial nation. Disorderly multispecies living is a resistance to the hygiene of modernity and a powerful alliance between human and nonhuman subalterns. In bringing an animal studies perspective to postcolonial writing and art, this book not only offers a way to interpret these texts that does justice to their significance, but also proposes both an ethics of representation and an ethics of reading that have wider implications for the study of relationships between human and nonhuman animals in literature and in life.Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Disorderly Multispecies Living 2. The Wild: Tracking Tigers through the Discourse of Conservation Provocation 1: Sakshi Gupta 3. The Body: Ahimsa and the Politics of Vegetarianism Provocation 2: Sujatro Ghosh 4. The Home: Narrative Violence and Counternarrative Companionship Provocation 3: Jagannath Panda 5. The City: Denizens of Modernity in Delhi and Mumbai 6. The Zoo: Postscript
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Wits University Press Foundational African Writers
Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection were crafted in celebration of the centenaries, in 2019, of Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Cyril Lincoln Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele, all of whom were born in 1919. These foundational writers produced more than a half-century of writing and cultural production spanning criticism, editorials, essays, fiction, journalism, life writing and orature. The essays in the collection showcase these writers’ multifaceted engagements and generative insights on a wide range of issues, including precolonial existence, colonialism, empire, race, the language question, tradition, gender, modernity, exile, Pan-Africanism and decolonisation. A number of political and thematic threads cut across the essays, including those that explore the significance of the ‘colour line’, the role of education and cultural practices amidst the unfolding of colonial modernity, state racism and print culture in South Africa and elsewhere. Foundational African Writers examines the ways in which the centenarians’ legacies still resonate in the present and how the body of work that they produced is crucial to the genealogies and institutions of modern African and diasporic black arts and letters. Studying their works revisits established debates, provokes possibilities for interdisciplinary engagement with the imperatives of decolonisation and opens up new trajectories for future scholarship.Table of Contents List of illustrations Foreword – Simon Gikandi Acknowledgements Tribute to Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson – Jill Bradbury, Khwezi Mkhize and Makhosazana Xaba Introduction – Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize and Makhosazana Xaba Part I: Remapping and Rereading African Literature and Cultural Production Chapter 1 Foundational Writers and the Making of African Literary Genealogy: Es’kia Mphahlele and Peter Abrahams – James Ogude Chapter 2 Foundational African Literary Discourse and Dimensions of Authority – Obi Nwakanma Chapter 3 Situating Sibusiso Nyembezi in African Literary History – Sikhumbuzo Mngadi Chapter 4 A Footnote and a Pioneer: Noni Jabavu’s Legacy – Athambile Masola Chapter 5 ‘Navigations of Tyranny’: Reconsidering Es’kia Mphahlele’s Writing – Crain Soudien Chapter 6 Noni Jabavu and the Sensibilities of Early Black Educated Elites – Hugo Canham Part II: South Africa and Fugitive Imaginaries Chapter 7 (Un)Homing and the Uncanny: The (Auto)Biographical Es’kia Mphahlele – Thando Njovane Chapter 8 In the Shadows of the British Empire: Nyembezi’s Inkinsela YaseMngungundlovu – Innocentia J. Mhlambi Chapter 9 Escaping Apartheid: Race, Education and Cultural Exchange, 1955–2003 – Anne-Maria Makhulu Chapter 10 Photographing Home Life in Alexandra between the 1930s and the 1970s – Thuto Thipe 11 Down Avenues of (Un)Learning: Reading, Writing and Being – Jill Bradbury Part III: In the Eye of the Short Century: Diaspora and pan-Africanism Reconsidered Chapter 12 Es’kia Mphahlele and the Question of the Aesthetic – Khwezi Mkhize Chapter 13 ‘African Contrasts’: Noni Jabavu’s Travelogue as Kaleidoscope – Tina Steiner Chapter 14 Es’kia Mphahlele, Chemchemi and Pan-African Literary Publics – Christopher E.W. Ouma Chapter 15 The ‘Crossroads and Forkways’ of Pan-Africanism between 1948 and 1968 – Bhekizizwe Peterson Chapter 16 ‘She Certainly Couldn’t Be Conventional If She Tried’: Noni Jabavu, the Editor of The New Strand Magazine in London – Makhosazana Xaba Chapter 17 Anti-Colonial Romance and Tragedy in Peter Abrahams’ A Wreath for Udomo – Andrea Thorpe 18 Mphahlele’s Writing in the Whirlwind – Stéphane Robolin Chapter 19 From South Africa to Coyaba: Peter Abrahams’ (New) World Geographies – Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi Contributors Index
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Liverpool University Press Involuntary Associations: Postcolonial Studies
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.The consequences of English’s spread have become increasingly clear to its diverse speakers. Sometimes associated with a standardization leading to homogenization, often also with imperialism, English is increasingly understood to have no necessary connection with any country or group of countries. The willingness to accept that English has become Englishes might be less evident among so-called native speakers, but their authority is weaker than it seemed. The idea of World Englishes encourages us to re-imagine our understanding of the language. The difference between error and innovation can no longer be decided through assumptions about the language 'ownership'. In fact, the language is beginning to be a medium of the expression of identity for more and more people in very different contexts. This book puts examples from World Englishes into dialogue with postcolonial studies, in the belief that while postcolonial studies has obviously had much to say about English, it has either directly concerned or been influenced by English literary studies. The dialogue will correct misconceptions and misapprehensions in postcolonial studies, with World Englishes offering renewal for postcolonial studies. At the same time, the dialogue will also apply postcolonial studies' political and philosophical ideas to World Englishes, resulting in a postcolonial perspective on English today.Trade Review'An excellent contribution to the debates surrounding World Englishes and Postcolonial Studies. I know of no other book that sets up a conversation between these fields and there is much to be gained by scholars in both areas of study from this very informative analysis.' Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales'David Huddart covers an impressive range of topics, and his discussion of major contributions in the fields of postcolonial studies, critical linguistics, cultural studies and globalisation studies is intriguing. He has set the stage for many productive discussions and further research.' Ana Sobral, English World WideTable of Contents Introduction 1. Involuntary Associations: ‘Postcolonial Studies’ and ‘World Englishes’ 2. Grammars of Living Break their Tense: World Englishes and Cultural Translation 3. English in the Conversation of Mankind: World Englishes and global citizenship 4. Declarations of Linguistic Independence: the Postcolonial Dictionary 5. Writing after the End of Empire: Composition, Community, and Creativity 6. Slow Reading: the Opacity of World Literatures Conclusion: English Remains, Englishes Remain Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Borrowed Forms: The Music and Ethics of
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Borrowed Forms examines the use of music by contemporary novelists and critics from across the Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone worlds. Through readings of Nancy Huston, Maryse Condé, J. M. Coetzee, Assia Djebar, Julio Cortázar, and other late twentieth-century novelists, the book shows how writers deploy musical strategies to expand the possibilities of the novel in response to the demands of transnational citizenship. The book transcends disciplinary boundaries, to reveal the entanglement of musical and narrative forms in ethical, historical, and political questions. Critics from Mikhail Bakhtin to Edward Said established musical forms as an indispensable framework for understanding the novel. This study argues that the turn to music in late twentieth century fiction is linked to new questions of authority and representation, as writers seek to democratize the novel, to bring marginalized voices into fiction, to articulate increasingly hybrid subjectivities, and to negotiate the conflicting histories of the diverse groups that make up today's multicultural societies. The book traces the influence of four musical concepts on theory and the contemporary novel: polyphony, or the art of combining multiple, equal voices; counterpoint, the carefully regulated setting of one voice against another; variations, the virtuosic exploration of a given theme; and opera, the dramatic setting of a story to a musical score. Borrowed Forms is both a vital reference for all those seeking to understand the influence of music on 20th-century literary theory, and a rigorous and interdisciplinary framework for considering the transnational novel.Trade ReviewReviews'It is a bold, broad, and innovative study. It will be of interest to all those who work with these complicated, engaging, and fascinating encounters between the literary and the musical.'Claire Launchbury, French Studies'Kathryn Lachman's book is not simply about the replication of musical form in literature but is a wide-ranging study of how writers and thinkers have engaged with the musical, its structures, and its performance across national traditions, and from which she extrapolates ethical concerns.' French Studies Vol. 69 No. 3Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. From Mikhail Bakhtin to Maryse Condé: the Problems of Literary Polyphony 2. Edward Said and Assia Djebar: Contrapuntal Approaches to Conflict 3. Glenn Gould and the Birth of the Author: Variation and Performance in Nancy Huston’s Goldberg Variations 4. Opera and the Limits of Representation in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press States of Emergency: Colonialism, Literature and
Book SynopsisHow can literature and culture from the postcolonial world help us to understand the relationship between law and violence associated with a state of emergency? And what light can legal narratives of emergency shed on postcolonial writing? States of Emergency: Colonialism, Literature and Law examines how violent anti-colonial struggles and the legal, military and political techniques employed by colonial governments to contain them have been imagined in literature and law. Through a series of case studies, the book considers how colonial states of exception have been defined and represented in the contexts of Ireland, India, South Africa, Algeria, Kenya, and Israel-Palestine, and concludes with an assessment of the continuities between these colonial states of emergency and the ‘wars on terror’ in Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan. By doing so, the book considers how techniques of sovereignty, law and violence are reconfigured in the colonial present.Trade ReviewReviews 'An impressive book on a fascinating and important subject.' Stephen Howe'Morton briefly reminds the reader of States of Emergency that it is even now, perhaps all the more, and more than a century after the “dynamite novels” that pulped the London literary and political scenery, necessary “to imagine a form of justice beyond the liberal fictions of human rights, democracy and the normal of law.”' Barbara Harlow, Research in African LiteraturesStephen Morton’s insightful study, States of Emergency. Colonialism, Literature and Law... is highly relevant and is written in an engaging and readable style.Year's Work in English StudiesTable of Contents A Notes on Translations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I 1. Sovereignty, Sacrifice and States of Emergency in Colonial Ireland 2. Terrorism, Literature and Sedition in Colonial India PART II 3. States of Emergency, the Apartheid Legal Order, and the Tradition of the Oppressed in South African Fiction 4. Torture, Indefinite Detention, and the Colonial State of Emergency in Kenya 5. Narratives of Torture and Trauma in Algeria’s Colonial State of Exception PART II 6.The Palestinian Tradition of the Oppressed and the Colonial Genealogy of Israel’s State of Exception Conclusion Bibliography Index
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