Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary and filmic works by major creative practitioners including Michel Khleifi, Liana Badr, Annemarie Jacir, Elia Suleiman, Mona Hatoum and Suheir Hammad, and reveals a hitherto unrecognized trajectory in gender-consciousness under development in the Palestinian imagination from the start of the twentieth century. The book explores how these works...
Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creati...
Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while recent criticism and theory has made large claims for reading, as an ethical act, as a means of establishing collective, quasi-political consciousness, as identification with difference, as a mode of resistance, and as an impulsion to the public imagination, the reader in postcolonial literary studies...
Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically...
This text highlights the connections between power, resistance and cultural products, and the artistic strategies through which resistance is voiced in the Middle East, exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music.
This text highlights the connections between power, resistance and cultural products, and the artistic strategies through which resistance is voiced i...
Writers of Muslim background are producing some of the most vibrant literary fiction of our time. From Rushdie and Kureishi--whose trailblazing, controversial books challenged the racial orthodoxies of the 1980s--to the new generation of Hamid, Aslam and Shamsie, these novelists explore their own multiple belongings and affiliations through the complex fictions they create. This collection reflects the variety of those fictions.
Writers of Muslim background are producing some of the most vibrant literary fiction of our time. From Rushdie and Kureishi--whose trailblazing, contr...
This is an interdisciplinary study of representations of terrorism and political violence in the fiction and journalism of colonial India. It argues that exceptional violence was integral to colonial sovereignty and that the threat of violence mutually defined discursive relations between coloniser and colonised.
This is an interdisciplinary study of representations of terrorism and political violence in the fiction and journalism of colonial India. It argues t...
This book reconsiders the notion of liminality in postcolonial critical discourse today. By visiting Mashriqi writers of memoir, Bugeja offers a unique intervention in the understanding of 'in-between' and 'threshold' states in present-day postcolonialist thought. His analysis situates liminal space as a fraught form of consciousness that mediates between conditions of historical contingency and the memorializing present. Within the present Mashriqi memoir form, liminal spaces may be read as articulations of 'representational spaces' - narrative spaces that, based as they are within the...
This book reconsiders the notion of liminality in postcolonial critical discourse today. By visiting Mashriqi writers of memoir, Bugeja offers a un...
This text presents a collection of Indo-Caribbean women's writing. The book offers a sustained analysis of the literature from a range of theoretical and critical perspectives, such as ecocriticism, feminist, queer, post-colonial, and Caribbean cultural theories.
This text presents a collection of Indo-Caribbean women's writing. The book offers a sustained analysis of the literature from a range of theoretical ...
This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. The book gives premium to the literary, aiming to delineate the evolution of specific narrative techniques as part of an emerging postcolonial aesthetics.
This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. The book gi...
This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural issues in film, cartoons, music, dance, photo-tattoos, graphic novels, fiction, and advertisements. Contributors to the volume span an array of specializations ranging across literary, postcolonial, gender, media, and Middle Eastern studies and contextualize their views within a larger historical and...
This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the fir...
This transnational collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces on the 1982 Siege of Beirut explores literary representations of the siege by a diverse set of writers alongside journalism and other media including film, music, and photography. The book investigates and promotes an awareness of an ethics of representation on questions of extreme emotional investment, comparing representations of the siege to representations of 9/11 and similar traumatic events, visiting responses from those of different cultural backgrounds to the same event and considering implications with respect...
This transnational collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces on the 1982 Siege of Beirut explores literary representations of the siege by...
