The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the 'old' Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery, and the 'new' diaspora linked to movements of late capital, Mishra argues that a full understanding of the Indian diaspora can only be achieved if attention is paid to the particular locations of both the 'old' and the 'new' in nation states. Applying a theoretical framework based on trauma,...
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an impor...
Anastasia Valassopoulos examines how contemporary Arab women writers deal with Western feminism, political conflict, the social effects of non-conformity and female empowerment, and the negotiation of influential cultural discourses.
Anastasia Valassopoulos examines how contemporary Arab women writers deal with Western feminism, political conflict, the social effects of non-conform...
Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare Rooney explores the nature of the real, providing:
a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist theory
an anti-essentialist approach to gender in which both male and female readers may address a consciousness of the feminine
a platform for postcolonial and postmodernist thinkers to engage in a dialogue around the status of the performative in regard to the other
a new theory of poetic realism...
Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare R...
At present, the bulk of the existing research on sex trafficking originates in the social sciences. Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature adds an original perspective on this issue by examining representations of sex trafficking in postcolonial literature. This book is a sustained interdisciplinary study bridging postcolonial literature, in English and Spanish, and sex trafficking, as analyzed through literary theory, anthropology, sociology, history, trauma theory, journalism, and globalization studies. It encompasses postcolonial theory and literature's aesthetic analysis of sex...
At present, the bulk of the existing research on sex trafficking originates in the social sciences. Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature adds an...
This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological assumptions of its dominant formations. It emerges, however, from an investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a commitment to its basic premise: namely, that literature and culture are fundamental to the response to structures of colonial and imperial domination. To a certain extent, postcolonial theory is a victim of its own success, not least because of the institutionalization of the insights that it has enabled. Now that these insights no longer...
This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological assumptions of its ...
The Future of Postcolonial Studies celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of "The Empire Writes Back "by the now famous troika - Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. When The Empire Writes Back first appeared in 1989, it put postcolonial cultures and their post-invasion narratives on the map. This vibrant collection of fifteen chapters by both established and emerging scholars taps into this early mapping while merging these concerns with" "present trends which have been grouped as: comparing, converting, greening, post-queering and utopia.
The...
The Future of Postcolonial Studies celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of "The Empire Writes Back "by the now famous troika ...
This collection examines new comic-book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinee texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. The individual chapters are framed within a larger enquiry that considers definitive aspects of the postcolonial condition in twenty-first-century (con)texts.
The authors demonstrate that the fields of comic-book production and circulation in various regional histories introduce new postcolonial vocabularies, reconstitute conventional "image-functions" in established social texts and political...
This collection examines new comic-book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinee texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporar...
This interdisciplinary collection explores the confluence of American and British (neo)imperalism in the Pacific, as represented in various forms of Pacific discourse including literature, ethnography, film, painting, autobiography, journalism, and environmental discourse. It investigates the alliances and rivalries between these two colonial powers during the crucial transition period of the early-to-mid twentieth century, also exploring indigenous Pacific responses to Anglo-American imperialism during and beyond the decolonization period of the late twentieth century. While the...
This interdisciplinary collection explores the confluence of American and British (neo)imperalism in the Pacific, as represented in various forms o...
This book is the first to focus exclusively on issues of gender and sexuality in a range of post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Concentrating on the 1950s to the mid 1970s, it highlights the period's diversity of sexual concerns. New readings of seminal figures like Samuel Selvon and George Lamming are offered, in tandem with discussion of innovative, lesser-studied authors such as Andrew Salkey, Oscar Dathorne and Rosa Guy. Whereas this body of work has tended to be characterised as minimally engaged with sexuality and overly reliant on patriarchal, heteronormative frameworks,...
This book is the first to focus exclusively on issues of gender and sexuality in a range of post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Concentr...
This book argues for the foundational and ongoing importance of the Arab world to postcolonial studies, challenging the marginality of Arab literary and theoretical contexts in the field to date and historicizing the 'Arab Spring' and its aftermath. Countering an emphasis in postcolonial studies on place, space, and mobility tropes, Moore underlines ways in which literature emerging from Arab contexts is configured by temporal structures, as well as histories, that enhance our understanding of what 'the postcolonial, ' its beginnings, and its limits might be. Chapters focused on Morocco,...
This book argues for the foundational and ongoing importance of the Arab world to postcolonial studies, challenging the marginality of Arab literar...
