This book is about the Booker Prize - the London-based literary award made annually to "the best novel written in English" by a writer from one of those countries belonging to, or formerly part of, the British Commonwealth. The approach to the Prize is thematically historical and spans the award period to 1999. The novels that have won or shared the Prize in this period are examined within a theoretical framework mapping the literary terrain of the fiction. Individual chapters explore themes that occur within the larger narrative formed by this body of novels - collectively invoked cultures,...

This book contains twelve essays in the social sciences. It is written from both a New Zealand and an international perspective. The essays are inter- and multi-disciplinary, encompassing recent ideas from sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, identity studies, postmodern research pedagogy, ethics, law, humanities and social sciences teaching, communication studies, and popular psychology. The twelve essays in this collection highlight ways in which inter- and multi-disciplinary methodologies may be brought to bear on issues in contemporary humanities and social sciences. The...