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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies provides scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies as a discipline and practice.In more than 30 essays, the volume offers a history of the concept of the transnational and takes readers from the Barbary frontier to Guam, from Mexico's border crossings to the intifada's contested zones. Together, the essays develop new ways for Americanists to read events, images, sound, literature, identity, film, politics, or performance transnationally through the work of diverse figures, such as Confucius, Edward Said, Pauline Hopkins, Poe, Faulkner, Michael Jackson, Onoto Watanna, and others. This timely volume also addresses presidential politics and interpictorial US history from Lincoln in Africa, to Obama and Mandela, to Trump. The essays, written by prominent global Americanists, as well as the emerging scholars shaping the fTable of ContentsIntroduction: Recognizing Transnational American Studies 1. Collaboration in Transnational American Studies Part 1: Theorizing Transnational American Studies 2. Reorienting the Transnational: Transatlantic, Transpacific, and Antipodean 3. Worlding America and Transnational American Studies 4. Archipelagic American Studies: An Open and Comparative Insularity 5. The Transnational Poetics of Edward Said: Dangerous Affiliations & Impossible Comparisons 6. The Pacific Turn: Transnational Asian American Studies Part 2: Culture and Performance: Histories and Reciprocities 7. Cultural Performance and Transnational American Studies 8. The Barbary Frontier and Transnational Allegories of Freedom 9. Stages of Crossing: Transnational Indigenous Futures 10. The Assembling of Trans-Indigènitude Through International Circuits of Poetry 11. Traveling Sounds: Haitian Vodou, Michael Jackson, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers Part 3: Translating Texts and Transnationalizing Contexts 12. Translating Poe in New York in the 1880s: Or, Poe’s Other Transnationalism 13. Confucius and America: The Moral Constitution of Statecraft 14. Translations of American Cultural Politics into the Context of Post-war Japan 15. A Mixed Legacy: Chinoiserie and Japonisme in Onoto Watanna’s A Japanese Nightingale 16. Gender and Transnational American Studies 17. Ethiopianism, Gender, and Transnationalism in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood 18. Transnationalism, Autobiography, and Criticism: The Spaces of Women’s Imagination Part 4: Political Imaginaries and Transnational Images of the Political 19. Iconography, Interpictoriality, and Transnational American Studies 20. The Visual Aesthetics of Privacy in American Presidential Politics and its Transatlantic Influence 21. Lincoln in Africa 22. Laws of Forgiveness: Obama, Mandela, Derrida 23. Visual Intertextuality and Transnational American Studies: Revisiting American Exceptionalism 24. Post-Truth = Post-Narrative? Reading the Narrative Liminality of Transnational Right-Wing Populism 25. American Realities: A European Perspective on Trump’s America Part 5: Remapping Geographies and Genres 26. The Performance of American Popular Culture: Rhetoric and Symbolic Forms in American Western Movies 27. Border Encounters: Theorizing the US-Mexico Border as Transa 28. Transnational and Intersectional Implications of the Intifada 29. Guam, Un-Inc.; or Craig Santos Perez’s Transterritorial Challenge to American Studies as Usual 30. Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation 31.Thinking After the Hemispheric: The Planetary Expanse of Transnational American Writing

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Book SynopsisJokes have always been part of African culture, but never have they been so blended with the strains and gains of the contemporary African world as today. The book considers the pervasive phenomenon of jokes and their performance across Africa. Trade ReviewThis is not just another book about Africa. It is a splendid book by scholars who know this Africa that is often glossed over by the so-called experts. It is about the other Africa, ignored but unbowed. In one essay after the other, the eloquence of this Africa speaks to us across different media, asking us to rethink this Africa intimately and wisely. This is a rare collection of essays about joke and joking in Africa. No Africanist must do without it. Onookome Okome, University of Alberta, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I ‘JOKING ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT’ 1. (Re)Imagining the Postcolony in Kenya’s The XYZ Show Joke-Cartoons, Remmy Shiundu Barasa 2. Nigeria’s 2015 Presidential Elections and the Rise of "Comicast", Ignatius Chukwumah 3. Joking About the Government: A Close Reading of the Moroccan Comic Show: ‘The School of the Naughty’, Zakariae Bouhmala Part II TRADITIONAL FORMS AND (POST)MODERN CONTEXTS 4. Ehwe-Ejẹ: Art and Humour in Urhobo Joke-Performance, Peter E. Omoko 5. Aesthetics of Anganga Afiki’s Video Joke-Performance in Malawi, Smith Likongwe 6. Joke-Performance and the Tiv Cultural Context of Satirizing and Appraising Postmodernity, Godwin Aondofa Ikyer7. Egyptian Satire in Modern Media Age, Sebastian Gadomski Part III STREET JOKES 8. (Con)text and Performance of Mchongoano: An Urban Youth Joke Genre in Kenya, Wangari Mwai, David Kimongo and Charles Kebaya 9. Joke-Performance in Egypt: Halah and Kouta Hamra, Heba M. Sharobeem Part IV SEX AND GENDER 10. The Aesthetics of the Ugly: Perspectives on Degrading Online Sex Jokes in Kenya, Felix A. Orina and Fred W. Simiyu 11. Dorika’s Metamorphosis: The Allusive Potency of a Comic Character, Cheela Himutwe K. Chilala 12. "From the ‘Beautiful’ to the ‘Bold’: A Linguistic Analysis of Some Doaa Farouk’s Humorous Texts", Mona Eid Saad Part V STAND-UP COMEDY 13. Severity in Hilarity: Appraising the Satirical Value of Stand-up Comedy in Nigeria, Samuel O. Igomu 14. Ideological Undertones in Mediatised Comedy in ‘Churchill Live’ Show of Kenya, Khaemba Josephine Mulindi & Michael Mule Ndonye

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century. Drawing on comparative, historical, and postcolonial reading strategies (including archival research), it seeks to reenergize the study of modernism by putting the spotlight on the cultural networks and aesthetic dialogues that developed between European and non-European writers, including Pablo Neruda, James Joyce, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Victoria Ocampo, Roberto Bolaño, Julio Cortázar, Samuel Beckett, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, and Malcolm Lowry. The book explores a wide range of texts that reflect these writers' complex concerns with questions of exile, space, empire, colonization, reception, translation, human subjectivity, and modernist experimentation. By rethinking modernism comparatively and by placing this intricate web of cultural interconnections within an expansive transnational (and transcontinentalTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Pablo Neruda’s Transnational Modernist Networks: Colombo-Madrid-London-Buenos Aires 2. Empire and Commerce in Latin America: Historicising Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out 3. Whose Joyce? Whose Modernism? Borges, Bolaño, and the Question of the ‘Ulyssean’ Novel4. The Reluctant Translator: Beckett’s Road to Mexico (via Paz)5. The Politics of Death in Mexico: Manet, Lowry, Bolaño and the Ghost of Emperor MaximilianCoda: Towards Modernist Dialogues in the Global South

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Book SynopsisAdam Kuper's iconoclastic intellectual history argues that the idea of primitive society is a western myth. The primitive is imagined as the opposite of the civilised. But this is a protean myth. As ideas about civilisation change, so the image of primitive society must be adjusted. By way of fascinating account of classic texts in anthropology, ancient history and law, Kuper reveals how this myth underpinned academic research and inspired political programmes. Its ancestry is traced back to classical western beliefs about barbarians and savages, and Kuper also tackles the latest version of the myth, the idea of a global identity of indigenous peoples. The Reinvention of Primitive Society is a key text in the history of anthropology, and will interest anyone who has puzzled about the very idea of primitive society and so, by implication, about civilisation.Table of ContentsPART ONE: THE IDEA OF PRIMITIVE SOCIETY1. The Myth of Primitive Society2. Barbarian, Savage, Primitive PART TWO: ANCIENT LAW, ANCIENT SOCIETY AND TOTEMISM3. Henry Maine’s Patriarchal Theory 4. Lewis Henry Morgan and Ancient Society 5. The Question of Totemism PART THREE: EVOLUTION AND DIFFUSION – BOAS, RIVERS AND RADCLIFFE-BROWN6. The Boasians and the Critique of Evolutionism 7. From Rivers to Radcliffe-Brown PART FOUR: DESCENT AND ALLIANCE8. Descent Theory: a Phoenix From the Ashes 9. Towards the Intellect: Alliance Theory and Totemism PART FIVE: BACK TO THE BEGINNING10. The return of the native 11. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book considers the question of spatial justice after apartheid from several disciplinary perspectives jurisprudence, law, literature, architecture, photography and psychoanalysis are just some of the disciplines engaged here. However, the main theoretical device on which the authors comment is the legacy of what in Carl Schmitt's terms is nomos as the spatialised normativity of sociality. Each author considers within the practical and theoretical constraints of their topic, the question of what nomos in its modern configuration may or may not contribute to a thinking of spatial justice after apartheid.On the whole, the collection forces a confrontation between law's spatiality in a postcolonial era, on the one hand, and the traumatic legacy of what Paul Gilroy has called the colonial nomos, on the other hand. In the course of this confrontation, critical questions of continuation, extension, disruption and rewriting are raised and confronted in noveTable of ContentsList of Contributors 1 Apartheid remains: Nomos, law and spatiality in post-apartheid South Africa JACO BARNARD-NAUDÉ AND JULIA CHRYSSOSTALIS2 Un/mapping Black life: On estranged spatialities, colonial nomos and the ruses of “post”-apartheid JOEL M. MODIRI3 On the San Dominick: Thinking nomos and postcolonial becoming with Melville, Schmitt and Fanon JULIA CHRYSSOSTALIS4 Unlearning, (un)naming, cohabiting KARIN VAN MARLE5 Inventaris van my bankrotskap as digter/Inventory of my poetic bankruptcy ANTJIE KROG6 The ground beneath our feet: Black feminist geography in South African literature BARBARA BOSWELL7 (Un)making Annie: Black female subjectivity, the normative (white) suburban South African home and land repossession VICTORIA J. COLLIS-BUTHELEZI8 “Space is space”: The nomos of apartheid, “the coloniser who refuses” and uncolonial spatiality in JM Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians JACO BARNARD-NAUDÉ9 Queer states: Beyond the nomos of the closet in Tendai Huchu’s The Hairdresser of Harare DERRICK HIGGINBOTHAM10 Abstract space: Continuation, infestation and sanitation in the South African Lawscape ISOLDE DE VILLIERS11 Unequal scenes JOHNNY MILLER12 Sense of place, virtual displacement and a nomos beyond apartheid: What value for a rights-based approach? LORETTA FERIS AND JACO BARNARD-NAUDÉ13 Memory Card Sea Power: Photographs by David Southwood TEXT BY SEAN CHRISTIE FROM ‘UNDER NELSON MANDELA BOULEVARD:LIFE AMONG THE STOWAWAYS’ AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID SOUTHWOODFROM ‘MEMORY CARD SEA POWER’14 Rewriting type: Writing nomos otherwise IAIN LOWIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a compelling study of contemporary developments in European migration studies and the representation of migration in the arts and cultural institutions. It introduces scholars and students to the new concept of âpostmigrationâ, offering a review of the origin of the concept (in Berlin) and how it has taken on a variety of meanings and works in different ways within different national, cultural and disciplinary contexts. The authors explore postmigrant theory in relation to the visual arts, theater, film and literature as well as the representation of migration and cultural diversity in cultural institutions, offering case studies of postmigrant analyses of contemporary works of art from Europe (mainly Denmark, Germany and Great Britain). Table of ContentsPreface; Part I Postmigration as a Concept (Reception, Histories, Criticism); Introduction: From Artistic Intervention to Academic Discussion (Petersen, Schramm & Wiegand); 1 Academic Reception (Petersen & Schramm); 2 Comparing Histories: The United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark (Petersen & Schramm); 3 Criticism and Perspectives (Petersen, Schramm & Wiegand); Part IIPostmigration as a Perspective (Art, Literature, Film); Introduction: Towards a Postmigrant Frame of Reading (Moslund & Petersen); 4 ‘Say it loud!’ A Postmigrant Perspective on Postcolonial Critique in Contemporary Art (Petersen); 5 Towards a Postmigrant Reading of Literature. An Analysis of Zadie Smith’s NW (Moslund); 6 Struggles for a New concept of Heimat. A Postmigrant Perspective on Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen (Post & Schramm); Part III Sites of Negotiation (Identity, Language, Institutions); Introduction: Reinventing identities, languages and institutions (Gebauer, Vitting-Seerup & Wiegand); 7 Identity and Cultural Representations in the Postmigrant Condition (Petersen & Vitting-Seerup); 8 Postmonolingual Struggles and the Poetry of Uljana Wolf (Gebauer); 9 Organizing Postmigration in Cultural Institutions – Diversity Work as Intrusion, Potential or Fact? (Vitting-Seerup & Wiegand); Part IV Envisioning the Future; 10 Postmigration: From Utopian Fantasy to Future Perspectives (Moslund, Schramm & Vitting-Seerup)

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Book SynopsisThis Introduction makes available for both student, instructor, and affcianado a refined set of tools for decolonizing our approaches prior to entering the unfamiliar landscape of Native American literatures. This book will introduce indigenous perspectives and traditions as articulated by indigenous authors whose voices have been a vital, if often overlooked, component of the American dialogue for more than 400 years. Paramount to this consideration of Native-centered reading is the understanding that literature was not something bestowed upon Native peoples by the settler culture, either through benevolent interventions or violent programs of forced assimilation. Native literature precedes colonization, and Native stories and traditions have their roots in both the precolonized and the decolonizing worlds. As this far-reaching survey of Native literary contributions will demostrate, almost without fail, when indigenous writers elected to enter into the world of weTrade Review"Offering a historical context from which students can understand the participation of Native American writers in literacy practices from the start, Lopienza challenges readers to rethink what he calls the 'rhetorical firewall between modern perceptions of oral and literate cultures,' that has led to an underappreciation of the complex legacy of the Native American literary canon. A valuable tool for students and teachers alike."--Vanessa Holford Diana, Westfield State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction to the IntroductionChapter 1 - Oral Encounters: Moving the Forest and Rocks by SongChapter 2 - "Still the Same Unbelieving Indian": Native Voices in the Emerging RepublicChapter 3 - Red Progressives and Indian PasswordsChapter 4 - Sunset, Sunrise: The American Indian Novel and the Dawning of the Native American Literary RenaissanceChapter 5 - "Many of Our Songs Are Maps": Poetry in the Native American Literary Renaissance and BeyondChapter 6 - "Every One of those Stars has a Story": Narrative and NationhoodChapter 7 - Teaching Louise Erdrich’s Tracks: A Case StudyConclusion: Greetings from Standing Rock

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Book SynopsisPostcolonialism is a book that examines the influence of postcolonial theory in critical geographical thought and scholarship. Aimed at advanced-level students and researchers, the book is a lively, stimulating and relevant introduction to âpostcolonial geographyâ that elaborates on the critical interventions in social, cultural and political life this important subfield is poised to make.The book is structured around three intersecting parts â Spaces, 'Identity'/hybridity, Knowledge â that broadly follow the trajectory of postcolonial studies since the late 1970s. It comprises ten main chapters, each of which is situated at the intersections of postcolonialism and critical human geography. In doing so, Postcolonialism develops three key arguments. First, that postcolonialism is best conceived as an intellectually creative and practical set of methodologies or approaches for critically engaging existing manifestations of power and exclusion in everyday life anTrade Review'Postcolonialism offers a detailed and accessible examination of the relationships between geography and postcolonial literary theory from Orientalism to the Anthropocene. As well as a valuable primer on a vital body of theory and a rich array of existing work, Tariq Jazeel sets out a manifesto and a methodology for future postcolonial geographies.' - Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary University of London, UK'Tariq Jazeel is one of the most important interlocutors of urban theory today. From him, comes this decisive contribution which meticulously and creatively demonstrates the necessary relationship between postcolonial thought and geographical inquiry. This book will reshape research, theory, and pedagogy.' - Ananya Roy, University of California, Los Angeles, USA'A thought-provoking introduction to postcolonial perspectives in geography. Tariq Jazeel presents postcolonialism as a set of critical methods that help to expose the profoundly geographical politics of representation.' - Felix Driver, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKTable of Contents1. Postcolonial Theory and Geography 2. A Brief History of Postcolonial Geography Part I Spaces 3. Orientalism, the Geographical Imagination and Postcolonial Spatialities 4. Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Cities 5. Nature, Postcolonialism, Environmentalism. Part II 'Identity'/Hybridity 6. ‘Identity’, interstitiality, hybridity 7. Multiculturalism, Cosmopolitanism, Planetarity: the challenge of living together Part III Knowledge 8. Subaltern Studies and Geography 9. Responsibility, Geography, Knowledge 10. Coda: Postcolonial futures in the shadow of the Anthropocene

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Book SynopsisEngagements with the postcolonial world by International Relations scholars have grown significantly in recent years. The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics provides a solid reference point for understanding and analyzing global politics from a perspective sensitive to the multiple legacies of colonial and imperial rule. The Handbook introduces and develops cutting-edge analytical frameworks that draw on Black, decolonial, feminist, indigenous, Marxist and postcolonial thought as well as a multitude of intellectual traditions from across the globe. Alongside empirical issue areas that remain crucial to assessing the impact of European and Western colonialism on global politics, the book introduces new issue areas that have arisen due to the mutating structures of colonial and imperial rule. This vital resource is split into five thematic sections, each featuring a brief, orienting introduction: Points of departure PTrade Review"Although the format of a handbook inevitably carries with it canonical connotations, the fusion of horizons that prefiguratively mends together a world fractured by coloniality is ultimately one that carries with it a promise of a world of many worlds. That is, a postcolonial world."Lucas Van Milders, University of Kent Table of Contents Introduction 1. Postcolonial Politics: An Introduction Olivia U. Rutazibwa and Robbie Shilliam Section 1: Points of Departure 2. Introduction 3. Waiwai (Abundance) and Indigenous Futures Mary Tuti Baker 4. European Integration as a Colonial Project Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson 5. Securing the Postcolonial Pinar Bilgin 6. Social Struggles and the Coloniality of Gender Rosalba Icaza 7. Racism and ‘Blackism’ in a World Scale Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Section 2: Popular Postcolonial Imaginaries 8. Introduction 9. The Imperial Sociology of the ‘Tribe’ Nivi Manchanda 10. Terrorism and the Postcolonial ‘State’ Swati Parashar 11. The Colonial Mediterranean, Anonymity and Migration Control Emilio Distretti 12. Violence, Hermeneutics and Postcolonial Diplomacy Deep Datta-Ray 13. Arab Feminism: Between Secular and Islamic Models Soumaya Mestiri 14. The Everyday Practices of Development Althea-Maria Rivas 15. LGBTIQ Rights, Development Aid and Queer Resistance Christine M. Klapeer Section 3: Struggles over the Postcolonial State 16. Introduction 17. The State: Postcolonial Histories of the Concept Gurminder K. Bhambra 18. Race, Ethnicity and the State: Contemporary Quilombos in a Historical Perspective Desiree Poets 19. The Revolution of Smiling Women: Stateless Democracy and Power in Rojava Dilar Dirik 20. The Postcolonial Complex in Okinawa Eiichi Hoshino 21.‘Too Simple and Sometimes Naïve’: Hong Kong, between China and the West Xin Liu Section 4: Struggles over Land 22. Introduction 23. 'Old wine in new bottles’: Enclosure, Neoliberal Capitalism and Postcolonial Politics A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi 24. Saltwater Archives: Native Knowledge in a Time of Rising Tides Joy Lehuanani Enomoto and D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie 25. Global Environmental Harm, Internal Frontiers, and Indigenous Protective Ontologies Ajay Parasram and Lisa Tilley 26. No Migration, Repatriation: Spiritual Visionings and Political Limitations of Rastafari Repatriation to Ethiopia Ijahnya Christian 27. Is a Decolonised University Possible in a Colonial Society? Andile Mngxitama Section 5: Alternative Global Imaginaries 28. Introduction 29. Wanda’s Dream: Daoist World Politics in Five Acts L.H.M. Ling 30. Civilizing Process or Civilizing Mission? Toward a Post-Western Understanding of Human Security Giorgio Shani 31. Dialogical International Relations: Gandhi, Tagore and Self-Transformation Aparna Devare 32. ‘Telling a Tale’: Gender, Knowledge and the Subject in Nepal Rahel Kunz and Archana Thapa 33. Du Bois, Ghana, and Cairo Jazz: The Geo-Politics of Malcolm X Hisham Aidi 34. Blesi Doub. Heridas Dobles. Dual Wounds. Re-writing the Island Alanna Lockward 35. African Violet: Hybrid of Circumstance Denize LeDeatte

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Book SynopsisBiodun Jeyifo examines the connections between the innovative and influential writings of Wole Soyinka and his radical political activism. Jeyifo carries out detailed analyses of Soyinka's most ambitious works, relating them to the controversies generated by Soyinka's use of literature and theatre for radical political purposes. He gives a fascinating account of the profound but paradoxical affinities and misgivings Soyinka has felt about the significance of the avant-garde movements of the twentieth century. Jeyifo also explores Soyinka's works with regard to the impact on his artistic sensibilities of the pervasiveness of representational ambiguity and linguistic exuberance in Yoruba culture. The analyses and evaluations of this study are presented in the context of Soyinka's sustained engagement with the violence of collective experience in post-independence, postcolonial Africa and the developing world. No existing study of Soyinka's works and career has attempted such a systematicTrade Review'… there are very few critics writing in the field who can carry out this kind of examination so well.' African Affairs'… fascinating …' WasafiriTable of ContentsChronology; 1. 'Representative' and unrepresentable modalities of the self: the Gnostic, worldly and radical humanism of Wole Soyinka; 2. Tragic mythopoesis as postcolonial discourse - critical and theoretical writings; 3. The 'drama of existence': sources and scope; 4. Ritual, anti-ritual and the festival complex in Soyinka's dramatic parables; 5. The ambiguous freight of visionary mythopoesis; fictional and nonfictional prose works; 6. Poetry, versification and the fractured burdens of commitment; 7. 'Things fall together': Wole Soyinka in his own write.

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Book SynopsisThis book considers how ''affect'', the experience of feeling or emotion, has developed as a critical concept within literary studies in different periods and through a range of approaches. Stretching from the classical to the contemporary, the first section of the book, ''Origins'', considers the importance of particular areas of philosophy, theory, and criticism that have been important for conceptualizing affect and its relation to literature. Includes ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, eighteenth-century aesthetics, Marxist theory, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and postcolonial theory. The chapters of the second section, ''Developments'', correspond to those of the previous section and build on their insights through readings of particular texts. The final ''Applications'' section is focused on contemporary and future lines of enquiry, and revolves around a particular set of concerns: media and communications, capitalism, and an environment of affective relations that extend to ecTrade Review'A seminal body of meticulous, informative, and deftly presented scholarship, Affect and Literature is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to community and academic library Literary Criticism & Theory collections and supplemental curriculum reading lists.' Jim Cox, The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: affect and literature Alex Houen; Part I. Origins: 1. Poetic fear-related affects and society in Greco-Roman antiquity Dana LaCourse Munteanu; 2. Secondary affect in Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Nicolai Stefan Uhlig; 3. Affect and life in Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson John Protevi; 4. Feelings under the microscope: new critical affect Helen Thaventhiran; 5. 'We manufacture fun: capital and the production of affect Ross Wilson; 6. Jacques Lacan's evanescent affects Jean-Michel Rabaté; 7. The durability of affect and the ageing of gay male queer theory Geoff Gilbert; 8. Affect, meaning, becoming, and power: Massumi, Spinoza, Deleuze, and neuroscience Anthony Uhlmann; 9. Translating postcolonial affect Sneja Gunew; 10. Making sorrow sweet: emotion and empathy in the experience of fiction Alison Denham; Part II. Developments: 11. Feeling feelings in early modern England Benedict S. Robinson; 12. Laughable poetry Matthew Bevis; 13. Modernism, formal innovation, and affect in some contemporary Irish novels Derek Attridge; 14. The antihumanist tone Christopher Nealon; 15. Bette Davis's eyes and minoritarian survival: camp, melodrama, and spectatorship Amber Musser; 16. Affective form Ankhi Mukherjee; 17. Subaltern affects Stephen Morton; Part III. Applications: 18. Affect and environment in contemporary ecopoetics Margaret Ronda; 19. Contemporary crisis fictions: twenty-first century disaffection Emily Horton; 20. Shiny happy imperialism: an affective exploration of 'ways of life' in the war on terror Amira Jarmakani; 21. The digital's amodal affect Andrew Murphie; 22. Digital special affects: on exhilaration and the STUN in CGI blockbuster films Eric Jenkins; 23. Cartesian affect Claire Colebrook.

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Book SynopsisMany twentieth-century literary writers were directly involved in political parties and causes, and many viewed their writing as part of their activism. This book explores literature's direct relationship to politics, offering new ways of thinking about the troubled relationship between literature and politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Christos Hadjiyiannis and Rachel Potter; Part I. 1900–1945: Ideas and Governance: 1. Liberalism Christos Hadjiyiannis; 2. Communism Matthew Taunton; 3. Fascism Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill; 4. Suffragism Clara Jones; 5. Pacifism Bárbara Gallego Larrarte; Part II. 1945–1989: New Nations and New Frontiers: 6. Partitions Anindya Raychaudhuri; 7. Federalism Ryan Weberling; 8. Cold War Rachel Potter; 9. Irish Nationalism Emer Nolan; 10. Black Nationalism GerShun Avilez; 11. Caribbean Nationalisms Alison Donnell; 12. African Nationalisms Donna V. Jones; 13. Apartheid Corinne Sandwith; Part III. 1989–2000: Rights and Activisms: 14. Women's Rights Rachele Dini; 15. Sexual Rights Jo Winning; 16. Indigenous Rights Christina Turner; 17. Environmental Rights Jos Smith; 18. Neoliberalism Peter Boxall.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa. It is a multi-disciplinary text, for both researchers and scholars of African Studies, the environment and postcolonial literature.Trade Review'Naturalizing Africa is an essential addition to environmental studies in Africa. Iheka has an impressive command of the interface between human communities and non-human ecologies and the way literature can illuminate some of the most vital environmental challenges of our time.' Rob Nixon, Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment, Princeton University, New Jersey'Through its focus on non-human agency and what Cajetan Iheka calls 'the proximity' of human and non-human actors, Naturalizing Africa offers an innovative approach to the role African literary studies can play in addressing environmental degradation and injustice in Africa. It represents an insightful and significant contribution to literary, postcolonial, and environmental studies.' Byron Santangelo, Professor of English, University of Kansas'Cajetan Iheka delivers a beautifully researched referendum on the Eurocentric limitations of both Enlightenment and postcolonial thought, seeking to relocate African ecocriticism and environmental activism in a primarily indigenous African understanding of the relations of humans with non-humans. His delineation of an 'aesthetics of proximity' as a means of representing multispecies relationships adds yet another dimension to the most progressive scholarship in animal studies, ecocriticism, and the new materialism.' Stephanie LeMenager, Moore Endowed Professor, Department of English, University of Oregon'Brilliantly countering the anthropocentrism of much ecocritical scholarship on African literatures, Cajetan Iheka's Naturalizing Africa offers important new interventions into African, postcolonial, and environmental studies. Through its skillful, expert analyses of literary representations of ecological crises from across the African continent, this book also contributes significantly to envisioning alternative, sustainable ecosystems.' Karen L. Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, Massachusetts'Cajetan Iheka's Naturalizing Africa is an eloquent, theoretically sophisticated contribution to the growing body of ecocritical work engaged with the Global South. This book vividly illuminates the cultural causes of and responses to Africa's environmental crises, using carefully chosen examples from various sub-Saharan regions.' Scott Slovic, Professor of English, University of Idaho and coeditor of Ecocritical Aesthetics: Language, Beauty, and the Environment and Ecocriticism of the Global South'Iheka's Naturalizing Africa is a book that is uncanny in its prescience. Marshalling synthesizing a range of debates in environmental, animal, and African literary studies, it not only elaborates the grounds of current debates in these fields but also illuminates a pathway for what is to come. This is going to be of tremendous influence for a very long time.' Ato Quayson, Professor and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of TorontoTable of ContentsIntroduction: naturalizing Africa; 1. African literature and the aesthetics of proximity; 2. Beyond human agency: Nuruddin Farah and Somalia's ecologies of war; 3. Rethinking postcolonial resistance: the Niger Delta example; 4. Resistance from the ground: agriculture, gender, and manual labor; Epilogue: rehabilitating the human.

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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 vii Introduction 1 1 Postcolonialism: Hermeneutical Journey through a Contentious Discourse 7 2 The Late Arrival of the “Post”: Postcolonialism and Biblical Studies 31 3 Postcolonial Biblical Studies in Action: Origins and Trajectories 57 Ralph Broadbent 4 Enduring Orientalism: Biblical Studies and the Repackaging of Colonial Practice 94 5 Postcolonial Moments: Decentering of the Bible and Christianity 123 6 The Empire Exegetes Back: Postcolonial Reading Practices 142 7 Afterword: Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: The Unfinished Journey 176 References 188 Index of Scriptural References 201 Index of Names and Subjects 204

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