This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege. Writings from the Mutiny of 1857 are well known, but there exists a vast body of texts, from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Burma, and the Indian subcontinent, that have rarely been compiled or examined.
Written in anxiety and distress, or recalled with poignancy and anger, these siege narratives depict a very different Briton. A far cry from the triumphant conqueror, explorer or ruler, these texts give us the vulnerable, injured and...
This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of...
This clear, student-friendly guidebook considers Fanon's key texts and theories, looking at: postcolonial theory's appropriation of psychoanalysis; anxieties around cultural nationalisms and the rise of native consciousness; postcoloniality's relationship with violence and separatism.
This clear, student-friendly guidebook considers Fanon's key texts and theories, looking at: postcolonial theory's appropriation of psychoanalysis; an...
Moving beyond traditional cyberculture studies paradigms in several key ways, this comprehensive collection marks the increasing convergence of cyberculture with other forms of media, and with all aspects of our lives in a digitized world.
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...
Moving beyond traditional cyberculture studies paradigms in several key ways, this comprehensive collection marks the increasing convergence of cyberc...
Moving beyond traditional cyberculture studies paradigms in several key ways, this comprehensive collection marks the increasing convergence of cyberculture with other forms of media, and with all aspects of our lives in a digitized world.
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...
Moving beyond traditional cyberculture studies paradigms in several key ways, this comprehensive collection marks the increasing convergence of cyberc...
This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these texts helped legitimize the moral ambiguities of colonial rule even as they helped the English fashion themselves.
An engaging examination of European colonizers' representations of native populations
Analyzes colonial discourse through an impressive range of primary sources, including memoirs, letters, exhibition...
This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of co...
This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants.
Nayar first maps the political and philosophical critiques of traditional humanism, revealing its exclusionary and 'speciesist' politics that position the human as a distinctive and dominant life form. He then contextualizes the posthumanist vision which, drawing upon biomedical, engineering and techno-scientific studies, concludes that human consciousness is shaped by its...
This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, ...
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, Nayar marks the...
This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 per...
This book is a detailed study of the Indian graphic novel as a significant category of South Asian literature. It focuses on the genre s engagement with history, memory and cultural identity and its critique of the nation in the form of dissident histories and satire. Deploying a nuanced theoretical framework, the volume closely examines major texts such as "The Harappa Files," "Delhi Calm," "Kari," "Bhimayana," "Gardener in the Wasteland," "Pao Anthology, " and authors and illustrators including Sarnath Banerjee, Vishwajyoti Ghosh, Durgabai Vyam, Amrutha Patil, Srividya Natarajan and...
This book is a detailed study of the Indian graphic novel as a significant category of South Asian literature. It focuses on the genre s engagement...
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,...
This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonia...
Set at the intersection of Human Rights, social justice and Literature, this cutting edge book examines a range of literary texts, fiction, plays and poetry, and through them considers representations of Human Rights and their violations. Examining violated bodies and subjects, the settings and environments in which these are embedded and the witnessing of atrocities, it considers how the subject (or person of Human Rights) emerges within fiction or poetry. Structured so as to move outward from the individual body to the world, the study progresses from the preconditions or settings for...
Set at the intersection of Human Rights, social justice and Literature, this cutting edge book examines a range of literary texts, fiction, play...
