Jane Austen has proved to be one of the most accessible and enduring legacies of Western culture in the last 200 years. As a cultural icon, as well as an object of serious intellectual investigation, Jane Austen has influenced the critical understanding of and the popular imagination around social relations and cultural rituals - the institution of marriage, the ideology of romantic relationship, the cultural imagining of class, or social prestige - as well as larger historical pictures that include slavery and colonialism.
Jane Austen has proved to be one of the most accessible and enduring legacies of Western culture in the last 200 years. As a cultural icon, as well as...
This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continentals. This study considers how island dwellers conceived of themselves and their relation to proximate mainlands, and examines the fascination that islands have long held in the European imagination. The collection addresses the significance of islands in the Atlantic economy of the eighteenth century, the exploration of the Pacific, the important role played by islands in the process of decolonisation, and island-oriented developments in...
This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continenta...
Literary Radicalism in India situates postcolonial Indian literature in relation to the hugely influential radical literary movements initiated by the Progressive Writers Association and the Indian People's Theatre Association. In so doing, it redresses a visible historical gap in studies of postcolonial India. Through readings of major fiction, pamphlets and cinema, this book also shows how gender was of constitutive importance in the struggle to define 'India' during the transition to independence.
Literary Radicalism in India situates postcolonial Indian literature in relation to the hugely influential radical literary movements initiated by the...
This study provides a provocative analysis and critique of American representations of Oceania and Oceanians, from the nineteenth century to the present. Arguing that imperial fantasies have glossed over a complex, violent history, Paul Lyons develops the concept of "American Pacificism." This theoretical framework draws on contemporary theories of friendship, hospitality and tourism to refigure established debates around "orientalism" for an Oceanian context. Lyons explores American-Islander relations and traces the ways in which two fundamental conceptions of Oceania have been entwined...
This study provides a provocative analysis and critique of American representations of Oceania and Oceanians, from the nineteenth century to the prese...
Winner of the 2006 NSW Prize for Literary Scholarship.
The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so disparately that it is tempting to talk of many different Conrads. One lasting impression however, is that his colonial novels, which record encounters between Europe and Europe s Other, are highly significant for the field of post-colonial studies.
Drawing on many years of research and a rich body of criticism, Postcolonial Conrad not only presents fresh readings of his novels of imperialism, but also maps and analyzes the interpretative tradition they...
Winner of the 2006 NSW Prize for Literary Scholarship.
The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so disparately that it is te...
This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period.
Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics furnished a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to construct particular images of India.
Looking specifically at the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the monstrous, the sublime, the picturesque and the luxuriant,...
This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 ...
This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continentals. This study considers how island dwellers conceived of themselves and their relation to proximate mainlands, and examines the fascination that islands have long held in the European imagination. The collection addresses the significance of islands in the Atlantic economy of the eighteenth century, the exploration of the Pacific, the important role played by islands in the process of decolonisation, and island-oriented developments in...
This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continenta...
Postcolonialism is used as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevence to the Caribbean experience.
Postcolonialism is used as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography ...
Explores the impact that the "African Writers Series" had on the development of African writing in English in the 1960's by examining the works of such authors as George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, Wilson Harris, and Derek Walcott. This book takes into account debates in the discipline of book history, publishing histories, and canon formation.
Explores the impact that the "African Writers Series" had on the development of African writing in English in the 1960's by examining the works of suc...
By engaging closely with the work of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the iconic nineteenth-century imperial spy, explorer, anthropologist and translator, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton explores the White Man s imperial fantasies, and the ways in which the many metropolitan discourses to which Burton contributed drew upon and reinforced an intimate connection between fantasy and power in the space of Empire. This original study sheds new light on the mechanisms of imperial appropriation and pays particular attention to Burton s relationship with his alter ego, Abdullah, the...
By engaging closely with the work of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the iconic nineteenth-century imperial spy, explorer, anthropologist and tra...
