Literary studies: postcolonial literature Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Edward Said
Book SynopsisEdward Said is perhaps best known as the author of the landmark study Orientalism, a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies, and for his controversial journalism on the Palestinian political situation.Looking at the context and the impact of Said''s scholarship and journalism, this book examines Said''s key ideas, including: the significance of ''worldliness'', ''amateurism'', ''secular criticism'', ''affiliation'' and ''contrapuntal reading'' the place of text and critic in ''the world'' knowledge, power and the construction of the ''Other'' links between culture and imperialism exile, identity and the plight of Palestine a new chapter looking at Said''s later work and style This popular guide has been fully updated and revised in a new edition, suitable for readers approaching Said''s work for the first time as well aTrade Review'A book that at one and the same time can both introduce and challenge, a commendable combination.' - African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, Review and NewsletterTable of ContentsWhy Said? Key Ideas 1. Worldliness: the text 2. Worldliness: the critic 3. Orientalism 4. Culture as imperialism 5. Palestine 6. Said’s Late Style After Said Further Reading
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean
Book SynopsisTrade Review'An elegantly comprehensive survey of the terrain and an invaluable resource for teachers, students and writers.' - Caryl Phillips'[The editors] provide an admirable contribution to Caribbean literary studies specifically and world literary studies as a whole.' - ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Caribbean Poetics Part II: Critical Generations Part III: Textual Turning Points Part IV: Literary Genres and Critical Approaches Part V: Caribbean Literature Part VI: Dissemination/Material Textuality
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Taylor & Francis Paul Gilroy Routledge Critical Thinkers
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsWhy Gilroy 1. Ethnic Absolutism 2. ‘Race is Ordinary’ 3. Postcolonial Melancholia in the UK 4. Studying the African Diaspora as the Black Atlantic 5. ‘The Black Atlantic as Counterculture of Modernity’ 6. Political Resistance and Vernacular Culture 7. Planetary Humanism After Gilroy Further Reading
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Writing Sri Lanka Literature Resistance the
Book SynopsisFocusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced both the production and critical reception of texts, Salgado presents a detailed analysis of eight leading Sri Lankan writers - Michael Ondaatje, Romesh Gunasekera, Shyam Selvadurai, A. Sivanandan, Jean Arasanayagam, Carl Muller, James Goonewardene and Punyakante Wijenaike to rigorously challenge the theoretical, cultural and political assumptions that pit insider' against outsider', resident' against migrant' and the authentic' against the alien'. By interrogating the discourses of territoriality and boundary marking that have come into prominence since the start of the civil war, Salgado works to define a more nuanced and sensitive critical framework that actively reclaims marginalized voices and draws upon recent studies in migration and the diaspora to reconfigure the Sri Lankan critical terrain.Trade Review"This is the most significant work on Sri Lankan English-language literature to date, combining impressive scholarship with perceptive analysis, nuanced evaluation and carefully balanced comment." – Confluence "Represents the most stimulating, perceptive and intellectually rigorous book-length study to date of this critically under-researched area of postcolonial literatures in English." - Interventions"...an excellent and much-needed contribution – well-written, insightful, and thorough." - Chelva Kanaganayakam, University of Toronto"Beautifully argued, intricately composed." --Meena Alexander, WasafiriTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction Part 1. 1. Literature and Territoriality: Boundary Marking as a Critical Paradigm Part 2 2. Allegorical Islands 3. Spectral Spaces 4. Fugitive Selves 5. Genealogical Maps Part 3 6. Border Dialogues 7. Place as Palimpsest 8. Past Paradise 9. Conclusion: Destinations Notes. Select Bibliography. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Transforming World Politics
Book SynopsisThis book provides a critical understanding of contemporary world politics by arguing that the neoliberal approach to international relations seduces many of us into investing our lives in projects of power and alienation. These projects offer few options for emancipation; consequently, many feel they have little choice but to retaliate against violence with more violence. The authors of this pioneering work articulate worldism as an alternative approach to world politics. It intertwines non-Western and Western traditions by drawing on Marxist, postcolonial, feminist and critical security approaches with Greek and Chinese theories of politics, broadly defined. The authors contend that contemporary world politics cannot be understood outside the legacies of these multiple worlds, including axes of power configured by gender, race, class, and nationality, which are themselves linked to earlier histories of colonizations and their contemporary formations. With fictiTrade ReviewThis is a worldly and sophisticated antidote to so much that is sterile and narrow in today's International Relations. The authors have provided us with a literate and learned statement on how to view a complex world. It is an important early contribution to what should become the mainstream of International Relations. Stephen Chan, Professor of International Relations, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UKIn challenging historical erasures that have been carried through violence as desire and the desire for violence, as well as the framing of discourses and the incarceration of labour in property relations, Transforming World Politics makes us think about our diminished way of life under the neoliberal imperium. The authors make the bold claim that we need to interrogate and challenge not only the 'other' but ourselves, thus creating new possibilities of moving forward together. Shirin M. Rai, Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UKThis is a worldly and sophisticated antidote to so much that is sterile and narrow in today's International Relations. The authors have provided us with a literate and learned statement on how to view a complex world. It is an important early contribution to what should become the mainstream of International Relations. Stephen Chan, Professor of International Relations, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UKIn challenging historical erasures that have been carried through violence as desire and the desire for violence, as well as the framing of discourses and the incarceration of labour in property relations, Transforming World Politics makes us think about our diminished way of life under the neoliberal imperium. The authors make the bold claim that we need to interrogate and challenge not only the 'other' but ourselves, thus creating new possibilities of moving forward together. Shirin M. Rai, Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UKTable of ContentsPart 1: Seductions of Empire 1. Politics of Erasure 2. Desire and Violence 3. The House of IR 4. Ontology of Fear and Property Part 2: In and Of Multiple Worlds 5. Worldism 6. Alternative Visions and Practices: Fiction and Poetry 7. Worldist Interventions in World Politics 8. A Play on Worlds
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Taylor & Francis The PostColonial Critic Interviews Strategies
Book SynopsisGayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice in this unique book. The Post-Colonial Critic brings together a selection of interviews and discussions in which she has taken part over the past five years; together they articulate some of the most compelling politico-theoretical issues of the present. In these lively texts, students of Spivak's work will identify her unmistakeable voice as she speaks on questions of representation and self-representation, the politicization of deconstruction; the situations of post-colonial critics; pedagogical responsibility; and political strategies.Trade Review"A set of interviews that render Spivak's thought more accessible, The Post-Colonial Critic could be considered a primer on constructing positionalities." -- CollegeLiteratureTable of ContentsChapter 1 Criticism, Feminism, and The Institution; Chapter 2 The Post-modern Condition: The End of Politics?; Chapter 3 Strategy, Identity, Writing; Chapter 4 The Problem of Cultural Self-representation; Chapter 5 Questions of Multi-culturalism; Chapter 6 The Post-colonial Critic; Chapter 7 Postmarked Calcutta, India; Chapter 8 Practical Politics of The Open End; Chapter 9 The Intervention Interview; Chapter 10 Interview with Radical Philosophy; Chapter 11 Negotiating the Structures of Violence; Chapter 12 The New Historicism: Political Commitment and the Postmodern Critic;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Imperial Leather
Book SynopsisImperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the gendering of nationalism within the zones of imperial and anti-imperial power.Trade Review"The author and Routledge are to be congratulated on a big, beautiful book that many students of the history of sexuality will find alluring." -- Journal of the Historyof Sexuality"Imperial Leather is what an academic book ought to be: intelligent, informed, socially committed, engaged, and engaging." -- Women's Review of Books"Imperial Leather is a wonderful book." -- Women's Reviewof Books"McClintock's magisterial study...is a daring articulation of the race-class-gender triad." -- Choice"Anne McClintock's Imperial Leather takes a prominent place among a number of recent works...that question the relegation of the imperial enterprise to the back benches of the Victorian sensibility...Ms. McClintock's astute reading of novels, diaries, and advertisements, among other sources, demonstrates how images of domestic life can be incorporated into an ideology of imperial domination." -- The New York Times Book Review"Imperial Leather is a very passionately written book, and the reader cannot help but be involved in the various texts that McClintock freely uses. Nothing escapes her hard, penetrating gaze...The work is thoughtful and well researched. I highly recomend it." -- Journal ofCarribean Studies"This is a big book, in every sense of the word: big format, big ideas, big aim." -- The Canadian HistoricalReview"Lucidly written, wide-ranging in its scope, supple and rigorous in its analysis, and impressive in its consistent theorization of gender in relation to other axes of power, Imperial Leather is a major contribution to materialist feminist scholarship." -- Signs"Engaging and frequently brilliant." -- Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsI. Empire of the Home 1. The Lay of the Land 2. "Massa and Maids 3. Imperial Leather 4. Psychoanalysis, Race and Female Fetish II. Double Crossings 5. Soft-Soaping Empire 6. The White Family of Man 7. Olive Schreiner III. Dismantling the Master's House 8. The Scandal of Hybridity 9. "Azikwelwa" (We Will Not Ride) 10. No Longer in a Future Heading
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Outside in the Teaching Machine
Book SynopsisGayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak's most engaging essays on works of literature such as Salman Rushdie''s controversial Satanic Verses, and twentieth century thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and Karl Marx. Spivak relentlessly questions and deconstructs power structures where ever they operate. In doing so, she provides a voice for those who can not speak, proving that the true work of resistance takes place in the margins, Outside in the Teaching Machine. Trade Review'Outside in the Teaching Machine is a necessary guide to responsible reading and teaching. Whether literary texts such as Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and Coetzee’s Foe, philosophy, or films, Spivak’s indefatigable in her questioning of contemporary pieties and in insisting that it is the study of culture that "can help us chart the production of versions of reality".' – Jean Franco, Columbia UniversityTable of Contents1. In a Word: Interview 2. More on Power/Knowledge 3. Marginality in the Teaching Machine 4. Woman in Differnce 5. Limits and Openings of Marx in Derrida 6. Feminism and Deconstruction, Again: Negotiations 7. French Feminism Revisited 8. Not Virgin Enough to Say That [S]he Occupies the Place of the Other 9. The Politics of Translation 10. Inscriptions: Of Truth to Size 11. Reading The Satanic Verses 12. Sammy and Rosie Get Laid 13. Scattered Speculations of the Question of Culture Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern
Book SynopsisIn this volume, Graham investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s to the present. This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses a wide range of writing against a backdrop of regional decolonization, including novels by the prize-winning authors J.M Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Chenjerai Hove, and Yvonne Vera. By employing a range of critical perspectivesâcultural materialist, feminist and ecocriticalâthis book offers new ways of thinking about the relationship between literature, politics and the environment in Southern Africa.The return of land has been central to the material and cultural struggles for decolonization in Southern Africa, yet between the advent of democracy in Zimbabwe (1980) and South Africa (1994) and Zimbabweâs decision to fast-track land redistribution in 2000, it has been limited land reform rather than widespread land redistribution that has prevailed. During this period nationalist discourses of reconciliation and economic development replaced those of revolution and decolonization. This book develops a critique of both forms of nationalistic narrative by focusing on how different and often opposing idea of land and nation are reflected, refracted and even refused in the fictions.Trade Review"A compelling comparative study of nationalism which goes beyond our conventional understanding of it as a derivative discourse...one of the first to draw attention to the themes common to Zimbabwe and South Africa." –James Ogude, Wits University, Scrutiny2"Elegantly composed and theoretically sound...The key strength of Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa is its nonhierarchical comparativism: that the volume is not South Africa-centred is an achievement in itself; furthermore, the cross-border, cross-historical compositional alternation enables innovative readings of both contexts." –Ranka Primorac, University of Southampton, Journal of Southern Africa StudiesTable of ContentsAbbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: Writing the Land in Southern Africa: From ‘an endless drama of domicile and challenge’ to ‘a country with land but no habitat’Chapter One: Possessions: Nationalisms and ‘the land’ in Zimbabwean Fiction 1975-1988Chapter Two: Repossessions: Subterranean (Trans)nationalisms in South African Fiction 1969-1979Chapter Three: Reconstructions: Abjection and the Re-writing of Cultural Nationalism in Zimbabwean Fiction 1989-2002Chapter Four: From Repossession to Reform: A New Terrain in South African Fiction 1990-2000Notes Bibliography Index
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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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Cambridge University Press Wole Soyinka Politics Poetics and Postcolonialism 9 Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature Series Number 9
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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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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University of Wales Press Emyr Humphreys
Book SynopsisOffers an examination of the novels of Emyr Humphreys in the light of his ideas on Wales: Welsh history, Welsh culture and the importance of a separate Welsh identity. This book explores Humphreys' practice in the light both of his own theories of culture and fiction and of a variety of models derived from postcolonial theory.
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Manchester University Press Ngugi Wa Thiongo Contemporary World Writers
Book SynopsisPatrick William’s lucid analysis offers the most up-to-date study of Ngugi’s writing, including his most rcent collection of essays. Ngugi is one of the most important novelists on the contemporary world stage, and someone whose name has for many become synonymous with cultural controversy and political struggle.Trade Review'Although the critical literature of Ngugi wa Thiong'p has swelled impressively in recent years, no fresh introductory survey has been published for more than decade. Patrick Williams deft new study therefore represents a welcome addition. This study represents a very useful jumping off point for today's students wishing to engage the writing of this hugely consequential African writer and intellectual.'Professor Neil Lazarus, University of Warwick -- .Table of ContentsPart 1: contexts and intertexts. Part 2: narrating the nation/constructing the community - introduction; the river between; weep not, child; a grain of wheat. Part 3: the struggle betrayed - petals of blood; devil on the cross; matigari. Part 4: essays. Part 5: critical overview and conclusion.
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Manchester University Press Colonial DiscoursePostcolonial Theory Essex
Book SynopsisRecently, the issues of colonialism and imperialism have come to the forefront of thinking in the humanities. This volume examines relevant issues from a range of historical perspectives. Central to the whole volume is a critique of the idea of the "post-colonial" itself.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1 Transculturation and autoethnography: Peru 1615/1980 Mary Louise PrattChapter 2 Rousseau’s patrimony: primitivism, romance and becoming other Simon DuringChapter 3 The locked heart: the creole family romance of Wide Sargasso Sea Peter HulmeChapter 4 The recalcitrant object: culture contact and the question of hybritidy Annie E. CoombesChapter 5 Anthropology and race in Brazilian modernism Zita NuñesChapter 6 How to read a ‘culturally different’ book Gayatri SpivakChapter 7 Post-apartheid narratives Graham PecheyChapter 8 Resistance theory/theorising resistance, or two cheers for nativism Benita ParryChapter 9 National consicousness and the specificity of (post) colonial intellectualism Neil LazarusChapter 10 Ethnic cultures, minority discourse and the state David LloydChapter 11 Social justice and the crisis of national communities Renato RosaldoChapter 12 The angel of progress: pitfalls of the term ‘postcolonialism’ Anne McClintockReferencesNotes on contributorsIndex
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Manchester University Press Gender and Colonial Space
Book SynopsisThis is an analysis of the complex relationship between social relations and spatial relations. It sets out a new direction for postcolonial theory, and draws on analysis of a wide range of literary and non-literary texts to illustrate its new more materialist approach. -- .Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Colonial subjectivity, gender and space3. Knowing and viewing landscape4. Public and domestic colonial architecture5. Indigenous spatiality within the colonial sphere6. ConclusionsBibliography
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Manchester University Press R. K. Narayan
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of Narayan's fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsSeries Editor's ForewordChronology1. Contexts and Intertexts2. Early Novels3. From Mr Sampath to Waiting for the Mahatma4. From The Guide to The Painter of Signs5. Late Novels6. Critical Overview and ConclusionNotesGlossarySelect bibliography
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Manchester University Press Absolutely Postcolonial Writing Between the
Book SynopsisProvides an incisive critique of well-established positions in postcolonial theory and a dramatic expansion in the range of interpretative tools availableTrade ReviewA brilliant refusal of its established terms of engagement, this book marks a major advance in thinkin g through and beyond postcolonial theory., Diana Brydon, Professor of English, University of Western Ontario|Peter Hallward's book is perhaps the key theoretico-political intervention of the last decade – one of those few where one cannot but exclaim: 'Finally the word we were all secretly waiting for!' One can only hope that his critique of postcolonial theory will set in motion the much-delayed liberation of teh academic Left from the postmodern jargon which has long dominated cultural studies. If ever a book was a weapon, this is it!, Slavoj Žižek, Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana|This monumental study transforms the terms within which critical understanding of postcolonial culture has been conducted. Lucid, difficult, highly original and sometimes contentious, Hallward's stimulating book provides a new bench-mark for all future debate in this field., Paul Gilroy, Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Yale University|Bringing a real philosophical intelligence to bear on the field, this extremely important book is a singular intervention in every sense of the word., Keith Ansell Pearson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Singular or specific?1. Postcolonial theory2. Edouard Glissant: from nation to Relation3. Charles Johnson and the transcendence of place4. Mohammed Dib and the 'alarm al-mithral: between the singular and the specific5. Severo Sarduy: sunyata and beyondConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press African Pasts Memory and History in African
Book SynopsisAfrican pasts examines African literatures in English since the end of colonialism, investigating how they represent African history through the twin matrices of memory and trauma.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Figuring African history and memory memory and self trauma 2. Purifying the language of the tribe: (pre)colonial memory 3. Critical and traumatic realist pasts 4. Gender, memory, history 5. Imprisonment narratives: history through the eyes of hostages 6. Embedding memory, seizing history: South African resistance poetry in the 1970s and 1980s 7. On shifting ground: South African fiction in the interregnum 8. Intimations of the postmodern Index
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Manchester University Press Stories of women
Book SynopsisWhy is the nation in a postcolonial world so often seen as a motherland? Stories of women is a pathbreaking study of the perenially fascinating relationship between foundational fictions of the nation and gendered images. The book focuses critically on postcolonial spaces ranging from West Africa to India. -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Theorising the en-gendered nation: Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons2. 'The master's dance to the master's voice': Revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o3. Of goddesses and stories: Gender and a new politics in Achebe4. The hero's story: The male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism5. Stories of women and mothers: Gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa6. Daughters of the house: The adolescent girl and the nation7. Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative8. The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marechera9. East is East: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist - the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy10. Tropes of yearning and dissent: The inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga11. Beside the West: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame12. Conclusion: Defining the nation differently
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Manchester University Press Frantz Fanon Postcolonialism and the Ethics of
Book SynopsisThis book underscores the ethical dimension of Fanon’s work by focusing on the interplay of language, gender and colonial politics, by discussing the implication of the medical and psychiatric establishment in the institution of colonialism and by assessing the importance of existential phenomenology in Fanon’s project of decolonisation.Trade Review'With this refreshing and, on occasion, provocative book, Azzedine Haddour confirms his reputation as one of the most searching and effective readers of Fanon today. Challenging many of the received ideas about his subject, Haddour's aim is to engage more holistically with Fanon's humanism and its ethical preoccupations across his life and writing. The result is a highly original contribution that manages to entertain a plurality of perspective. Essential reading for all those interested in the historical emergence of postcolonial thought and in its contemporary resonances.' Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool ‘We are nothing on earth if we are not, first of all, slaves of a cause, the cause of the people, the cause of justice, the cause of liberty”. Recalling these powerful late words of Frantz Fanon, Haddour provocatively resituates Fanon at once historically in terms of his own cultural, social and political environment, whilst also engaging deeply with more recent critics of Fanon who claim him for the politics of difference or the lumpenproletariat. Haddour shows us that while Fanon focuses throughout his work on the always paradoxical and contradictory forms of alienation under which he lived, he was above all an ethical thinker: anti-racist, humanist and internationalist.’ Robert JC Young, Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Black Rebel with a Cause1. The significance of Sartre in Fanon2. A poststructuralist reading of Fanon3. A family romance4. The North African syndrome: Madness and colonization5. The Wretched of the Earth: The anthem of decolonization?6. Tradition, translation and colonizationConclusionIndex
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Manchester University Press Intertextuality in Modern Arabic Literature Since
Book SynopsisDeals with the subject of intertextuality in modern Arabic literature. Beginning with a general overview of the topic by Roger Allen, this title brings together essays on a range of writers from different parts of the Arab world, including, among others, Edwar al-Kharrat, Sa'd Allah Wannus, Najib Mahfuz, Rabi' Jabir, and Salim Matar.Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements1. Intertextuality in modern Arabic literature since 1967 – Roger Allen2. The narrative of the ship: al-Mu’aqqit, Mahfuz, and Jabra – Richard van Leeuwen3. D’arbes et de lunes: parcours intertextuel dans la littérature arabe contemporaine –Luc-Willy Deheuvels4. Intertextuality gone awry? The mysterious (dis)appearance of ‘tradition’ in the Arabic novel – Wen-Chin Ouyang5. Appropriating, or secretly undermining, the secular literary heritage? Distant echoes of Mawsim al-Hijra in a Muslim writer’s novel: Leila Aboulela, The translator – Stephan Guth6. Intertexte et mémoire dans l’écriture Romanesque de Rabi Jabir: essai sur le roman Ralph Rizqallah fi ‘l-mir’at – Sobhi Boustani7. Transformations of the Thousand and One Nights: Zakariyya Tamir’s ‘Shahriyar wa-Shahrazad’ and Muhammad Jibril’s Zahrat al-Sabah – Ulrike Stehli-Werbeck8. Intertextual and intratextual processes in al-Malik huwa al’malik by Sacd Allah Wannus – Rosella Dorigo9. From intertext to mixed media: the case of Edwar al-Kharrat – Robin C. Ostle10. Intertextuality and the Arabic literary tradition in Edwar al-Kharrat’s Stones of Bobello – Paul Starkey11. The past in the present: aspects of intertextuality in modern literature in the Gulf ¬– Gail Ramsay12. The mosaic of quotations and the labyrinth of interpretations: the problem of intertextuality in the modern literature of the Gulf – Barbara Michelak-PikulskaSelect bibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press End of Empire and the English Novel Since 1945
Book SynopsisFirst book-length critical work devoted to the impact of the end of empire and traces of imperial memory in mainstream English Literature since the Second World War. Authors studied include Josephine Tey, William Golding, Penelope Lively, David Peace and Ian McEwan. Represents the best of current scholarship. -- .Trade ReviewAn exemplary synthesis of literary-historical rigour and stylistic attentivenessEnd of Empire unveils the ambivalent nature of post-imperial national identity, shedding a new light not on the empire as such but on its end, decline, and fall. -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction: end of empire and the English novel (Bill Schwarz)1. The road to Airstrip One: Anglo-American attitudes in the English fiction of mid-century (Patrick Parrinder)2. Josephine Tey and her descendants: conservative modernity and the female crime novel (Cora Kaplan)3. Colonial fiction for liberal readers: John Masters and the Savage family saga (Richard Steadman-Jones)4. The entropy of Englishness: reading empire’s absence in the novels of William Golding (Rachael Gilmour) 5. The empire of romance: love in a postcolonial climate (Deborah Philips)6. Passage from Kinjanja to Pimlico: William Boyd’s comedy of imperial decline (Michael L. Ross)7. Unlearning empire: Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger (Huw Marsh)8. I am not the British Isles on two legs’: travel fiction and travelling fiction from D.H. Lawrence to Tim Parks (Suzanne Hobson)9. Queer histories and postcolonial intimacies in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty (Sarah Brophy)10. The return of the native: Pat Barker, David Peace and the regional novel after empire (James Procter)11. Saturday’s enlightenment (David Alderson)Afterword (Elleke Boehmer)
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Manchester University Press Writing British Muslims
Book SynopsisExamines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent, including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam -- .Trade ReviewWriting British Muslims is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary Britain's ambivalent, ambiguous and often antagonistic and hostile relationship with its Muslim communities and citizens. Ahmed carefully situates her subtle, precise and perceptive readings of both well-known and lesser known texts within their material contexts of production and reception by paying close attention to the ways in which class and social space always intersect with religion, ethnicity and ideology in determining writing by and about British Muslims. This book is a magnificent example of politically engaged literary criticism that brings original insights to bear on matters of great public concern and debate., Anshuman Mondal, Reader in English at Brunel University, 11 May 2015'This is the book we have been waiting for. In lucid, accessible prose, Rehana Ahmed charts a path through recent British Muslim writing, exploring how it illuminates a context in which Muslims have become figures of suspicion, tainted by charges of national disloyalty and tarred with supposed pathological tendencies inculcated by their religion. She deftly shows how those writers featured refute such simplifications, while nonetheless having to negotiate the anthropological demands of readers and reviewers keen to gain an authentic insight into allegedly sequestered Muslim life in Britain. Ahmed exposes the tensions between private and public modes of faith, and points out the universalising tendencies and blind spots of aggressive secularists and freedom of speech fundamentalists. Most valuably, in brilliant readings of Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam in particular, she takes us back to the often-overlooked determinant of class, showing how the right to represent is a product of specific material conditions and histories that continue to shape writing – and reading – in an age of Islamophobia.'Peter Morey, Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, University of East London, 19 May 2015‘This is a book that a researcher into Muslim Britain cannot ignore.’Kaiser Haq, Wasafiri -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Muslim culture, class and controversy in twentieth-century Britain2. Anti-racism, liberalism and class in The Satanic Verses and the Rushdie affair3. The limits of liberalism in the work of Hanif Kureishi4. Locating class in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and its reception5. Creative freedom and community constraint in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers6. Reason to believe? Five British Muslim memoirsConclusionIndex
£76.50
Manchester University Press Postcolonial Manchester
Book SynopsisOffers a radical new perspective on Britainâs devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchesterâs vibrant, multicultural literary scene. -- .Trade Review‘This is an intellectually rich, inspiring and persistently readable book that manages with admirable dexterity to be many things at once: a revealing history of Manchester’s quintessential diasporic condition, a critical rendering of the city’s transcultural evolution, a major moment in devolving literary studies from its capital headquarters, a transformative contribution to our understanding of the North. As Postcolonial Manchester reveals, Manchester’s fortunes owe as much to its central role in the industry of empire as to the demographic, migrational and multicultural changes that have produced many of Europe’s urban centres as postcolonial cities. In shaping a confluent and mutually informing series of essays, the editors enable an illuminating engagement with the dizzying range of Manchester’s diasporic writing across a wealth of genres, incorporating literary fiction, performance poetry, crime writing and short stories. Vital attention is paid, too, to the publishing ventures, cultural projects and key anthologies which stimulated and empowered much of the writing considered in this book. Ultimately, Postcolonial Manchester takes on the challenge, often voiced but rarely pursued, of exploring the differentiated diasporicity of Britain, while setting the highest standards for future research in this field.’John McLeod, Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures, University of Leeds'This is a work of prodigious scholarship, the outcome of research of archaeological proportions as the authors have almost literally unearthed features of the literary landscape unknown to many, if not most, of us in the field. In fact, it might be true to say that they have constructed the literary landscape which will now be indelibly linked with the city. The book is a work of cultural history combined with a high level of cultural analysis, pioneering in its scholarship and path-breaking in its contribution to knowledge, not just of modern Manchester, but also of modern, multiracial Britain. At first glance, it might be thought that a book on Manchester might be parochial or only have regional appeal but the writers have produced a work with a global resonance, linking empire, slavery, migration and diaspora in a way which reveals Manchester not as a region of the United Kingdom but a space which has intersected with the world over hundreds of years. The famous music scene in Manchester is widely known but now this book makes possible the awareness of an equally vibrant literary culture.It is a pleasure, and relief, to read a book featuring the ‘postcolonial’ in its title which is accessibly written, grounded in thorough empirical research, and theoretically sophisticated but without a hint of the wearisome jargon once associated with the field. I have read a fair number of books on postcolonialism but this is startlingly new and fresh in its approach, bringing together a whole range of publishing initatives, genres and outputs so often dismissed in the past as ‘merely popular’, and bringing them together in ways which surprise and provoke and also add to our stock of knowledge. The active use of the concept of ‘neighbour’, for example, in arguing for Manchester’s black poets to be understood as ‘indigenous British poets’ is very striking and productive, and has an importance far beyond the cultural sphere as it reaches out to larger debates about the politics of belonging and Britishness now.'Roger Bromley, author of Narratives for a New Belonging: Diasporic Cultural Fictions, and Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham‘This is an intellectually rich, inspiring and persistently readable book that manages with admirable dexterity to be many things at once: a revealing history of Manchester’s quintessential diasporic condition, a critical rendering of the city’s transcultural evolution, a major moment in devolving literary studies from its capital headquarters, a transformative contribution to our understanding of the North. As Postcolonial Manchester reveals, Manchester’s fortunes owe as much to its central role in the industry of empire as to the demographic, migrational and multicultural changes that have produced many of Europe’s urban centres as postcolonial cities. In shaping a confluent and mutually informing series of essays, the editors enable an illuminating engagement with the dizzying range of Manchester’s diasporic writing across a wealth of genres, incorporating literary fiction, performance poetry, crime writing and short stories. Vital attention is paid, too, to the publishing ventures, cultural projects and key anthologies which stimulated and empowered much of the writing considered in this book. Ultimately, Postcolonial Manchester takes on the challenge, often voiced but rarely pursued, of exploring the differentiated diasporicity of Britain, while setting the highest standards for future research in this field.’John McLeod, Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures, University of Leeds'This is a work of prodigious scholarship, the outcome of research of archaeological proportions as the authors have almost literally unearthed features of the literary landscape unknown to many, if not most, of us in the field. In fact, it might be true to say that they have constructed the literary landscape which will now be indelibly linked with the city. The book is a work of cultural history combined with a high level of cultural analysis, pioneering in its scholarship and path-breaking in its contribution to knowledge, not just of modern Manchester, but also of modern, multiracial Britain [. . .] The famous music scene in Manchester is widely known but now this book makes possible the awareness of an equally vibrant literary culture.'Roger Bromley, author of Narratives for a New Belonging: Diasporic Cultural Fictions, and Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of NottinghamWhen we talk about Manchester, we use catchily portmanteau terms: Cottonopolis, Madchester, Gunchester and Stuart Maconie’s coinage, “mills and bhuna”. This terrific book deals with the ways in which all these topics have an impact on the metropolis’ literary production. Indeed, the only key feature of the city not discussed here (much to my relief, after all the coverage of Sir Alex Ferguson’s autobiography) is its arch-rival football teams. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Manchester and the devolution of British literary culture – Corinne Fowler and Lynne Pearce1. Manchester: the postcolonial city – Lynne Pearce2. Publishing Manchester’s black and Asian writers – Corinne Fowler3. Manchester’s crime fiction: the mystery of the city’s smoking gun – Lynne Pearce4. Collective resistance: Manchester’s mixed-genre anthologies and short-story collections – Lynne Pearce5. Rebels without applause: Manchester’s poetry in performance (1960s – the present) – Corinne Fowler 6. Giving Voice: the writers’ perspective – Robert CrawshawAfterwordIndex
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Manchester University Press Caryl Phillips David Dabydeen and Fred DAguiar
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain may be seen as legacies of this largely ignored, but deeply significant, past.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsSeries editor’s foreword List of abbreviations Chronology 1. Contexts and intertexts 2. Caryl Phillips and the absent voices of history 3. David Dabydeen and the ethics of narration 4. Fred D’Aguiar and the memorialisation of slavery 5. Critical overview And conclusion Notes Select bibliography Index
£28.50
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
£95.65
Rlpg/Galleys Cave Culture in Maghrebi Literature
Book SynopsisCave Culture in Maghrebi Literature: Imagining Self and Nation discusses key postcolonial Francophone North African texts, centering on folktales, war, Berber traditions, femininity, sexuality, the Algerian War of Independence (19541962), and the Algerian Civil War (19921999). It explores the literary and cultural evidence testifying to the role of the cave as a locus of worship, transfiguration, dominance, and revelation in the context of colonial and postcolonial power struggles, and its wider significance in the context of nationalism and femininity, sexuality, and postcolonial identity construction. Historically, the cave has symbolized the explosive colonial and postcolonial struggles. It was a crucial site of colonial subjugation in North Africa during the colonial conquest in the nineteenth century and during the Algerian War of Independence in the twentieth century. Featuring narratives by authors such as Yamina Méchakra, Georges Buis, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Maïssa Bey, Assia DjebaTrade ReviewJones (French, Utah State Univ.) highlights the importance of the cave and cave imagery in Maghrebi culture and the pervasive presence of the cave in Francophone literature from the region. Taking as source texts works by major Francophone North African writers (Mohammed Dib, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Assia Djebar, and others) and filmmakers (Moumen Smihi), the author traces the longevity of cave imagery through its presence in Islamic and pre-Islamic oral traditions, as evidenced in the folktales that are also among the primary sources for this study. Jones seems to have anticipated that this study of the cave as symbol and metaphor might interest readers with little prior knowledge of Francophone North African literature and/or the recent history of the region because she includes a great deal of such background information in the text. She succeeds in demonstrating the multifaceted role of the cave as a literary motif and its symbolic value in imagining the nation and national identity. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * CHOICE *"Both within and beyond the landscape of North Africa, the cave represents more than its geographical characteristics in its literary and cultural production. In this truly original work, Christa Jones invites the reader to envision the cave both thematically and symbolically through North African folktales and francophone literature. Using both well known (Tahar Ben Jelloun’s work) and lesser known (popular folktales) literary representations, she examines the cave across national boundaries and across genres, providing a new perspective on the rich cultural and literary history of the region." -- Pamela A. Pears, Washington CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Sites of Wonders and Miracles: The Cave in Kabylian Folktales The Cave in Islam and the Legend of the Seven Sleepers Tales of Wonder and Magic: Metamorphoses in Troglodytic Caves “Zalghoum, la belle promise,” “Loundja, plus belle que la lune,” and “Fibule d’argent Places of Transfiguration, Female Disobedience, and Emancipation "L’oiseau vert,” “Une histoire d’ogre,” and “Histoire de l’ogre et de la belle femme,” Rites of Passage, Gateways to Happiness, Insight, and Maturation “La bague enchantée,” Pépé Colosso,” “Ahmed, fils de bûcheron,” and “Chrab Dekhane” Of Treasures, Divination, and Hideous Crimes “Attiallah,” “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” “La caverne des Djinns,” and “Tout secret se trouve un jour dévoilé” Chapter Two: Wo(men) in Caverns, Wo(men) at War: The War Novels Death traps in Djebar’s Fantasia and in Bey’s Pierre sang papier ou cendre The Involvement of Moudjahidates—Myth versus Reality Resisting War: Yamina Méchakra’s La grotte éclatée Crushing the Rebels’ Resistance - Georges Buis’s La grotte Clearly Out of Luck: Nabile Farès’ Yahia, pas de chance From one War to Another: Waciny Larêej’s La gardienne des ombres Chapter Three: Country vs. City: Of Troglodytes, Peasants, Drifters, and Women Of Troglodytes and Tradition: Driss Chraïbi’s Une enquête au pays Awakening Femininity: Hawa Djabali’s Glaise rouge Discovering Femininity: Hawa Djabali’s Agave Moumen Smihi’s El Chergui, Vent de l’est ou le silence violent Mohammed Dib’s Qui se souvient de la mer Mohamed Choukri’s Le pain nu Chapter Four: Of Sexuality, Desire, and Madness in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Texts Deviant Sexualities: From Harrouda to L’enfant de sable The Madman: Moha le fou, Moha le sage Ben Jelloun’s La fiancée de l’eau, a Feminist Play Unbridled Sexuality, Desire, and Dream Culture in La nuit de l’erreur Afterword
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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
£15.29
Edinburgh University Press Medieval Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Book SynopsisMedieval Literature and Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of postcolonial medieval studies and examines the historical connections between postcolonial studies and medieval studies.Trade ReviewWritten for the prestigious series edited by David Johnson and Ania Loomba, this book will enable a wider audience to get a broad view of the extraordinarily fertile field of pre-modern literature and culture: it sets out clearly the ways in which the intersection of ethnic, racial, and religious difference in the pre-modern setting can provide valuable insights into modern postcolonial theory. Lisa Lampert-Weissig's book is sure to have a dramatic impact on medieval and early modern studies, and on the much broader fields of postcolonial theory and literary history. -- Professor Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Department of English and Medieval Studies, University of Toronto Lisa Lampert-Weissig persuasively argues both that postcolonial studies can illuminate our understanding of medieval Europe's centuries of invasion and conquest, and that medieval literary sources can refine key concepts in postcolonial studies. In her lucid and challenging readings of medieval texts and contemporary postcolonial novels, Lampert shows that the ways in which the Middle Ages features in contemporary debates about postcolonial nations struggling out of their past or about 'Islam in Europe' are far from merely academic. We need books like this to remind us of the medieval roots of histories of modernity, 'race' and European identity. -- Professor Ruth Evans, Department of English, Saint Louis University Highly recommended Written for the prestigious series edited by David Johnson and Ania Loomba, this book will enable a wider audience to get a broad view of the extraordinarily fertile field of pre-modern literature and culture: it sets out clearly the ways in which the intersection of ethnic, racial, and religious difference in the pre-modern setting can provide valuable insights into modern postcolonial theory. Lisa Lampert-Weissig's book is sure to have a dramatic impact on medieval and early modern studies, and on the much broader fields of postcolonial theory and literary history. Lisa Lampert-Weissig persuasively argues both that postcolonial studies can illuminate our understanding of medieval Europe's centuries of invasion and conquest, and that medieval literary sources can refine key concepts in postcolonial studies. In her lucid and challenging readings of medieval texts and contemporary postcolonial novels, Lampert shows that the ways in which the Middle Ages features in contemporary debates about postcolonial nations struggling out of their past or about 'Islam in Europe' are far from merely academic. We need books like this to remind us of the medieval roots of histories of modernity, 'race' and European identity.Table of ContentsSeries Preface; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Timeline; Prologue; I. The Future of the Past; II. Medieval Intersections: The Case of al-Andalus; Norman Frontiers and the Twelfth-Century Werewolf Renaissance; Race, Periodisation and Medieval Romance; A Global Vision: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville; III. The Dark Continent of Europe; Works Cited; Further Reading; Index.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Postcolonial Literature
Book SynopsisIntroduces postcolonial literary studies through close readings of a wide range of fiction and poetry
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Book SynopsisThis book provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between Romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British Empire. This title explains how key theoretical concerns of postcolonial studies - imaginary geography, Otherness and difference and cultural hybridity - have dramatically changed our understanding of Romantic literature.
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Edinburgh University Press A Historical Companion to Postcolonial
Book SynopsisThe first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Latin America and the Philippines.Table of ContentsPreface, Walter Mignolo; INTRODUCTION, Prem Poddar, Rajeev Patke, Lars Jensen; Acknowledgements; General editors & section editors; List of maps; Map 1: World Colonisation 1550; A selective chronology; Map 2: World Colonisation 1914; BELGIUM & ITS COLONIES; Map 3: The Belgian Colonial Empire; Introduction, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (University of Warwick); Anthropology & Ethnography, Maarten Couttenier (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Anticolonial Resistance, Carina Yervasi (Swarthmore College); Belgian Imperial Policy, Martin Shipway (Birkbeck College, University of London); Belgian Missionaries in the Congo, Pascale Stacey (Liverpool University); Colonial & Postcolonial Exhibitions, Sabine Cornelis (Royal Museum of Central Africa, Brussels); Comics & the Belgian Congo, Nancy Hunt (Michigan University); Evolues, Priscilla Ringrose (Trondheim University); Historiography: The Belgian Congo, Pascale Stacey & Victoria Reid (Liverpool University); Kimbangu, Anne Melice (Liege University); Leopold II, Lieve Spaas (Kingston University, London); Missions in the Danish-Norwegian colonies, Louise Sebro (Lund University); Mobutu, Priscilla Appama (Universit de Franche-Comt, Besanon, France); Narratives of Empire: Postcolonial Congo, Pierre Halen (Paul Verlaine-Metz University); The Red Rubber Scandal, Aisling Campbell (Liverpool University); The Rwanda Genocide of the 1990s, Colette Braeckman (Brussels); Andre Ryckmans, Heidi Bojsen (Roskilde University); Pierre Ryckmans, Therese De Raedt (Utah University); The Scramble for the Congo, Colette Braeckman (Brussels); Tippu Tip, Fiona Barclay (University of Glasgow); DENMARK AND ITS COLONIES; Map 4: Denmark and Norway: Colonial Possessions c.1800; Introduction, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Abolition of Slavery, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Anthropology, Greenland and Colonialism, Ole Hoiris (Aarhus University); Charter Companies, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Colonial Exhibitions, Cheralyn Mealor (Aarhus University); Creolisation, Heidi Bojsen (Roskilde University); The Greenlandic Colonial Administration, Mette Ronsager (Copenhagen University); Greenlandic Writers, Karen Langgard (University of Greenland); Grundtvig, N.F.S., Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Thorkild Hansen and the Critique of Empire, Marianne Stecher-Hansen (University of Washington); Historiography, Michael Bregnsbo (University of Southern Denmark); Home Rule, Lars Jensen (Roskilde University); Migrancy, Kirsten Hvenegard-Lassen (Roskilde University); Missions in the Danish-Norwegian Colonies, Louise Sebro (Lund University); Modernisation of Greenland, Klaus Georg Hansen (Nuuk); Narratives and Fictions of Empire, Claire Thomson (University College, London); Orientalism and Exoticism, John Botofte (Brussels); Race and Ethnicity, Greenland, Karen Langgard (University of Greenland); Knud Rasmussen, Nanna Folke Olsen (Copenhagen); Thule, Pia Kruger Johansen (Roskilde University); Tropical Colonies, Esther Fihl (Copenhagen Unversity); Viking Settlements, Lasse Wolsgard(Copenhagen); FRANCE AND ITS COLONIES; Map 5: The French Colonial Empire; Introduction, Charles Forsdick (Liverpool University); The Algerian War, Nicholas Harrison (King's College); Anthropology and Ethnography, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (University of Warwick); Anti-colonialism, Andy Stafford (University of Leeds); Colonial Administration, Tony Chafer (University of Portsmouth); Colonial Education, Claire Griffiths (University of Hull); Creolisation and Creoleness, Maeve McCusker (Queen's University); Decolonization, Stephen Tyre (University of St Andrews); Exploration and Travel, Aedin Ni Loingsigh (University of Edinburgh); France in Asia and the Indian Ocean, Kate Marsh (Liverpool University); France in North America, Bill Marshall (University of Glasgow); France in the South Pacific, Amanda Macdonald (University of Queensland); Francophone, Margaret A. Majumdar (University of Portsmouth); Francophone Black Atlantic, H. Adlai Murdoch (University of Illinois); Francophone Caribbean, Martin Munro (University of the West Indies); Haiti, Mariana Past (Dickinson College); Historiography, Stephen Tyre (University of St Andrews); Imperial Policy, Tony Chafer (University of Portsmouth); Internal Colonialism, Eamon O Ciosain (National University of Ireland); Massacres, Charles Forsdick, (Liverpool University), Migrancy, Aedin Ni Loingsigh (University of Edinburgh); Narratives and Fictions of Empire, David Murphy (University of Stirling); Negritude, Patrick Corcoran (Roehampton University); Neo-colonialism, Andy Stafford (University of Leeds); North Africa and the Middle East, Patrick Crowley (University College, Cork); Orientalism and Exoticism, Siobhan Shilton (Bristol University); Race and Ethnicity, Andy Stafford (University of Leeds); Religion, Kamal Salhi (University of Leeds); Slavery and Abolition, Maeve McCusker (Queen's University, Belfast); Sub-Saharan Africa, David Murphy (University of Stirling); Tirailleurs Senegalais, Charles Forsdick (Liverpool University); Women's Histories, Winifred Woodhull (University of California at San Diego); GERMANY AND ITS COLONIES; Map 6: The German Colonies; Introduction, Birthe Kundrus (Hamburger Institut fur Sozialforschung); African Playground, Nana Badenberg (Basel); Anthropology and Ethnography, H. Glenn Penny (University of Iowa); Anti-colonial Struggles, Tanja Buhrer (Universitat Bern); Askari and Askari Myth, Michelle Moyd (Ithaca); Berlin Conference, Tanja Buhrer (Universitat Bern); Black Germans, Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool); Cameroon, Ralph A. Austen (University of Chicago); Colonial Administration, Jurgen Zimmerer (University of Sheffield); Colonial Culture-Impact on Germany, Alexander Honold (Universitat Basel); Colonial Education, Sven Werkmeister (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin); Colonial Literature, Alexander Honold (Universitat Basel); Colonial Migration and the Law, Pascal Grosse (Universitatsmedizin, Berlin); Colonial Monuments, Joachim Zeller (Berlin); Colonial Revisionism, Susann Lewerenz (Hamburg); Colonialism and African Writing, Nina Berman (Ohio State University); Commercial Ethnographic Exhibitions, Hilke Thode-Arora (Markt Schwaben); German East Africa, Christian Geulen (Universitat Koblenz-Landau); German New Guinea, Birthe Kundrus (Hamburger Institut fur Sozialforschung); German Samoa, Birthe Kundrus (Hamburger Institut fur Sozialforschung); German South-west Africa, Daniel J. Walther (Wartburg College); Herero Genocide, Jurgen Zimmerer (University of Sheffield); Historiography: Germany, Sebastian Conrad (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut); Hybridity and Race Relations, Frank Becker (Historisches Seminar, Munster); Kiaochow, Klaus Mulhahn (University of Turku); The Language Question, Sven Werkmeister (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin); Missions, Ulrich van der Heyden (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin), NS-Colonialism, Dirk van Laak (Weimar); Orientalism, Nina Berman (Ohio State University); Race and Ethnicity, Michael Schubert (Universitat Osnabruck); Slavery, the Slave Trade and Abolition, J.-G. Deutsch and M. Zeuske (Universitat zu Koln); Togo, Peter Sebald (Berlin); TheVersailles Conference, Boris Barth (Universitat Konstanz); West Africa: 17th-18th Century, Ulrich van der Heyden (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin); Women's Histories, Lora Wildenthal (Rice University); ITALY AND ITS COLONIES; Map 7: The Italian Colonies 1940; Introduction, Ruth Ben-Ghiat (New York University); Adwa, Alessandro Triulzi (Istituto Orientale, Naples); Albania, Nicola Mai (London Metropolitan University); Anthropology and Ethnology, Barbara Sorgoni (Universita Federico II); Anti-colonial Resistance in Eastern Libya, Ali Abdullah Ahmida (University of New England); Anti-colonial Resistance in Italian East Africa, Ruth Iyob (Washington University); Dodecanese Islands, Nicholas Doumanis (University of South Wales); Eritrea to 1935, Tekaeste Negash (Dalarna University); Ethiopian War, Nicola Labanca (Siena University); Fictions and Narratives of Empire, Charles Burdett (Bristol University); Antonio Gramsci and the Southern Question, Nelson Moe (Barnard College); Rodolfo Graziani, Nicola Labanca (Siena University); Haile Selassie, William R. Scott (Lehigh University); Immigration, Jacqueline Andall (Bath Unversity); Italian East Africa, Ruth Iyob (Washington University); Italophone Literature, Cristina Lombardi-Diop (American University in Rome); Land Expropriations, Federico Cresti (Catania University); Land Settlements, Federico Cresti (Catania University); Libya, Mia Fuller (University of California at Berkeley); Orientalism, Cristina Lombardi-Diop (American University in Rome); Racial Policies, Barbara Sorgoni (Universita Federico II); The Sanusi Order or Sanusiyya, 1837-1932, Ali Abdullah Ahmida (University of New England); Somalia before 1935, Tekeste Negash (Dalarna University); Women's Histories, Ruth Iyob (Washington University); THE NETHERLANDS AND ITS COLONIES; Map 8: The Dutch Colonial Empire; Introduction, Luc Allofs (Museum of Aruba), Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State), Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Theo D'haen (University of Leiden); Anthropology and Ethnography, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); Anti-colonial Resistance, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); Edgar Cairo, Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba); Colonial Administration, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); Counts of Orange, Eric Martone (Waterbury); Creolisation and Creoleness, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy), Patricia Krus (University of Stirling) and Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); Critique of Imperialism/Anti-colonialism, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); December Killings, Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); Decolonisation, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); The Dutch Colonisation of N. America J. P. Alessi (Colorado Springs); The Dutch in Brazil, Mark Meuwese (Winnipeg University); The Dutch in Colonial America, Richard C. Kagan (Hamline University); The Dutch in Taiwan, Richard C. Kagan (Hamline University); The Dutch in the Caribbean, Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba); Albert Helman, Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba); Historiography, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy), P. Krus and Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); Immigration in the Netherlands, Jeroen Doomernik (University of Amsterdam); Missionaries and Religion, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba); Narratives of Empire, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy), Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba) and Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); Nationalism/Nationhood, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); Orientalism/Exoticism, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Wim Rutgers (University of Aruba); Race and Ethnicity, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and Patricia Krus (University of Stirling); Race and Language in South Africa, Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); Slavery and Abolition, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy) and P. Krus; Women's Histories, Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy), Patricia Krus (University of Stirling), Annemarie van Niekerk (University of the Free State); OTHER EUROPES; Clash of Civilisations, Couze Venn (Nottingham Trent University); The Jewish Diaspora, Ilan Pappe (Haifa University); Postcolonial Russia, Ewa Thompson (Rice University); Postcolonial Sweden, Sheila Ghose (New York University); Turkey, Hamit Bozarslan (EHESS); PORTUGAL AND ITS COLONIES; Map 9: The Portuguese Colonial Empire 1415-1999; Introduction, Phillip Rothwell (Rutgers University); Anthropology and Ethnography, Miguel Vale de Almeida (Lisbon University); Anti-Colonial Struggles, David Robinson (University of Western Australia); The Brazilian Independence Process, Claire Williams (Liverpool University); Amilcar Cabral, Claire Williams (Liverpool University); The Carnation Revolution, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez (Wisconsin University); Charter Companies/Prazos, Corrado Tornimbeni (Bologna University); Creolisation and Creoleness, David Brookshaw (Bristol University); Explorations and Discoveries, Isabel Moutinho (La Trobe University); FRELIMO (Mozambique), David Robinson (University of Western Australia); FRETILIN and Xanana Gusmao, Anthony Soares (Belfast University); The Frontline States, David Robinson (University of Western Australia); Goa, Claire Williams (Liverpool University); Henry the Navigator, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez (Wisconsin University); Historiography, Phillip Rothwell (Rutgers University); Independence Movements (Azores and Madeira), Carmen Maria, Ramos Villar (Sheffield University); The Liberation Wars and Decolonisation, Norrie MacQueen (Dundee University); Lusophone African Literature, Russell Hamilton (Vanderbilt University); Lusotropicalism, Race and Ethnicity, Anna Klobucka (University of Massachusetts); Samora Machel, Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Aberdeen University); Eduardo Mondlane, Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Aberdeen University); Moorish Portugal, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez (Wisconsin University); MPLA (Angola), Helia Santos (Coimbra University); Agostinho Neto, Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Aberdeen University); Orientalism in the Lusophone World, Ana Maria Mao-de Ferro Martinho (Lisbon Nova University); Overseas Provinces/The Colonial Act, Robert Moser (Georgia University); PAIGC (Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde); Claire Williams (Liverpool University); Pepetela, Igor Cusack (Birmingham University); Postcolonial African Immigration to Portugal, Sheila Khan (Belfast University); RENAMO (Mozambique), David Robinson (University of Western Australia); Salazar and the New State, Victor J. Mendes (University of Massachusetts); Dom Sebastiao, Phillip Rothwell (Rutgers University); Slavery and Abolition, David Brookshaw (Bristol University); Timor and Indonesia: Shared currents, Anthony Soares (Belfast University); UNITA (Angola), Helia Santos (Coimbra University); Vasco da Gama, Claire Williams (Liverpool University); Women's Histories, Hilary Owen (Manchester University); Map 10: The Iberian Empires 1581-1640; SPAIN. LATIN AMERICA AND THE PHILIPPINES; Map 11: The Spanish Colonial Empire; Introduction, Elizabeth Monasterios (University of Pittsburgh); The Andean Avant-Garde, Elizabeth Monasterios (University of Pittsburgh); Andean Textiles, Denise Arnold (Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara); Anti-colonial Struggle, Arturo Arias (University of Redlands); Arturo Borda, Elizabeth Monasterios (University of Pittsburgh); 'Caliban', John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh); Christian Influences on Philippine Society, Dante L. Ambrosio (University of the Philippines); Colonial Baroque, John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh); Colonialism and Popular Culture, Denise Arnold (Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara); Discovery and Conquest, Gonzalo Lamana (University of Pittsburgh); Uriel Garcia, Elizabeth Monasterios (University of Pittsburgh); Hibridacion, Joshua Lund (University of Pittsburgh); Indigeneity, Gustavo Verdesio (University of Michigan); Indigenismo and Mestisaje, Javier Sanjines (University of Michigan); Latin American Critical Thought, Michael Handelsman (University of Tennessee); Marianisation in the Philippines, Evelyn A. Miranda (University of the Philippines); Marronage and Rebellion, Juan Antonio Hernandez (Cornell University); The Philippines-Mexico Connection, Jaime Veneracion (University of the Philippines); The Popol Vuj, Carlos Lopez (Marshall University); Postcoloniality and Alternative Histories, Julia Suarez Krabbe (Roskilde University); Fausto Reinaga, Marcia Stephenson (Purdue University); The Role of Literature in Filipino Resistance, Maria Luisa T. Reyes (University of the Philippines); Spain, Modernity, and Colonialism, John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh); Spanish Colonialism in a World Perspective, Julia Suarez Krabbe (Roskilde University); The Tupac Amaru Rebellion, John Beverley (University of Pittsburgh); Map 12: World Colonisation 1945; Alphabetical List of Contributors; Index of Authors (cited); Index of Subjects.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Nostalgia in Anglophone Arab Literature
Book SynopsisThis book offers an in-depth engagement with the growing body of Anglophone Arab fiction in the context of theoretical debates around memory and identity. Against the critical tendency to dismiss nostalgia as a sentimental trope of immigrant narratives, Qutait sheds light on the creative uses to which it is put in the works of Rabih Alameddine, Ahdaf Soueif, Hisham Matar, Leila Aboulela, Randa Jarrar, Rawi Hage, and others. Arguing for the necessity of theorising cultural memory beyond Eurocentric frameworks, the book demonstrates how Arab novelists writing in English draw on nostalgia as a touchstone of Arabic literary tradition from pre-Islamic poetry to the present. Qutait situates Anglophone Arab fiction within contentious debates about the place of the past in the Arab world, tracing how writers have deployed nostalgia as an aesthetic strategy to deal with subject matter ranging from the Islamic golden age, the era of anti-colonial struggle, the failures of the postcolonial stTable of Contents1. Introduction Defining Nostalgia The Uses of Nostalgia Language and Identity Reading Anglophone Arab Writing Memory as A Strategic Aesthetic 2. Chapter One: “The Chaos of Lost Empires” Standing By the Ruins The Imagined Present of the Past Traces and Translations 3. Chapter Two: “A War Between Yesterday and Tomorrow” Rewriting Colonial Histories Postcolonial Parallels Weaving Connections 4. Chapter Three: “Fractured Country, Broken Home” Leaders, Fathers and The Un-Homely Home Nostalgia for Mother/Lands Cacophonous Countries 5. Chapter Four: “Europe is My Dark Continent” Transplanted Nationalism Diaspora Community and Instability “Back Home” Transnational Islam in the Diaspora Mongrel Humanity and Undetermined History 6. Conclusion
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Nostalgia in Anglophone Arab Literature
Book SynopsisTasnim Qutait is a visiting postdoctoral researcher at SOAS University of London and a recipient of the International Postdoc Grant funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).Table of Contents1. Introduction Defining Nostalgia The Uses of Nostalgia Language and Identity Reading Anglophone Arab Writing Memory as A Strategic Aesthetic 2. Chapter One: “The Chaos of Lost Empires” Standing By the Ruins The Imagined Present of the Past Traces and Translations 3. Chapter Two: “A War Between Yesterday and Tomorrow” Rewriting Colonial Histories Postcolonial Parallels Weaving Connections 4. Chapter Three: “Fractured Country, Broken Home” Leaders, Fathers and The Un-Homely Home Nostalgia for Mother/Lands Cacophonous Countries 5. Chapter Four: “Europe is My Dark Continent” Transplanted Nationalism Diaspora Community and Instability “Back Home” Transnational Islam in the Diaspora Mongrel Humanity and Undetermined History 6. Conclusion
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Stateless Literature of the Gulf
Book SynopsisThe Bidun (without nationality) are a stateless community based across the Arab Gulf. There are an estimated 100,000 or so Bidun in Kuwait, a heterogeneous group made up of tribes people who failed to register for citizenship between 1959 and 1963, former residents of Iraq, Saudi and other Arab countries who joined the Kuwait security services in 60s and 70s and the children of Kuwaiti women and Bidun men. They are considered illegal residents by the Kuwaiti government and as such denied access to many services of the oil-rich state, often living in slums on the outskirts of Kuwait's cities. There are few existing works on the Bidun community and what little research there is is grounded in an Area Studies/Social Sciences approach. This book is the first to explore the Bidun from a literary/cultural perspective, offering both the first study of the literature of the Bidun in Kuwait, and in the process a corrective to some of the pitfalls of a descriptive, approach to research on theTable of ContentsNote on Transliteration Introduction Chapter 1: The ‘Bidun’. Chapter 2: A Literary Community’s Struggle for Presence Chapter 3: The Cameleers of the National Spirit: Bidun poets and Kuwaiti Literary History Chapter 4: The Desert Apocalypse: the last Bedouin, the first Bidun Chapter 5: Representations of the 'Ashish in the Bidun Novel Chapter 6: ‘Crossing Borders’: Bidun Writers in the Diaspora Bibliography Index
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McFarland & Company Science Fiction from Quebec A Postcolonial Study
Book SynopsisA study of French-language science fiction from Canada that provides an introduction to the subgenre known as 'SFQ' (science fiction from Quebec). It demonstrates how these multivolume narratives of colonization and postcolonial societies exploit themes typical of postcolonial literatures.
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McFarland & Company Francophone African Poetry and Drama A Cultural
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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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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
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Wesleyan University Press Occasional Views Volume 2
Book SynopsisA diverse collection of essays and interviews from one of literature's most iconic voices.
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