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• Includes essential readings for both the student and scholar of a diverse range of fields, including new and digital media, internet studies, digital arts and culture studies, network culture studies, and the information society
• Incorporates essays by both new and established scholars of digital cultures, including Andy Miah, Eugene...

This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory.

• Features a brief introduction to postcolonial theory and a list of suggested further reading that includes the texts in which many of these terms originated
• Each entry includes the origins of the term, where traceable; a detailed explanation of its perceived meaning; and examples of the term's use in literary-cultural texts
• Incorporates terms and concepts from multiple disciplines, including anthropology,...

• Considers cyberculture and new media through contemporary race, gender and sexuality studies and postcolonial theory
• Offers a clear analysis of some of the most complex issues in cybercultures, including identity, network societies, new geographies, and connectivity
• Includes discussions of gaming, social networking, geography, net-democracy, aesthetics, popular internet culture, the body, sexuality and politics
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• An engaging examination of European colonizers' representations of native populations
• Analyzes colonial discourse through an impressive range of primary sources, including memoirs, letters, exhibition...

For two hundred years, India was the jewel in the British imperial crown. During the course of governing India the Raj a number of words came to have particular meanings in the imperial lexicon. This book documents the words and terms that the British used to describe, define, understand and judge the subcontinent. It offers insights into the cultures of the Raj, through a sampling of its various terms, concepts and nomenclature, and utilizes critical commentaries on specific domains to illuminate not only the linguistic meaning of a word but its cultural and political nuances.

The Transnational in English Literature examines English literary history through its transnational engagements and argues that every period of English Literature can be examined through its global relations. English identity and nationhood is therefore defined through its negotiation with other regions and cultures.

The first book to look at the entirety of English literature through a transnational lens, Pramod Nayar:

• Maps the discourses that constitute the global in every age, from the Early Modern to the twentieth century
• Offers readings of representative texts in...

This book examines writings by people living with Alzheimer's Disease and their caregivers. Its focus areas include the construction of the self in the face of diminishing linguistic and cognitive abilities, the stigmatization of ageing, the various narrative strategies that these texts (often collaborative) employ, the health activism and advocacy generated via a 'biosociality,' and the ethics of care. It examines the 'disease writing' genre about a condition that ravages the ability to use language. It serves as a "literary" examination of the work done in this area through a critical...