A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature write by Shirley Chew. This book was released on 2013-12-13. A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present day, this concise companion is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of postcolonial literature and culture. An indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of Postcolonialism, bringing together 10 original essays from leading international scholars including C. L. Innes and Susan Bassnett Explains the ideas and practises that emerged from the dismantling of European empires Explores the ways in which these ideas and practices influenced the period's keynote concerns, such as race, culture, and identity; literary and cultural translations; and the politics of resistance Chapters cover the fields of identity studies, orality and literacy, nationalisms, feminism, anthropology and cultural criticism, the politics of rewriting, new geographies, publishing and marketing, translation studies. Features a useful Chronology of the period, thorough general bibliography, and guides to further reading
Terror and the Postcolonial
Terror and the Postcolonial - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Terror and the Postcolonial write by Elleke Boehmer. This book was released on 2015-08-03. Terror and the Postcolonial available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture. A ground-breaking study addressing and theorizing the relationship between postcolonial studies, colonial history, and terrorism through a series of contemporary and historical case studies from various postcolonial contexts Critically analyzes the figuration of terrorism in a variety of postcolonial literary texts from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Raises the subject of terror as both an expression of globalization and a postcolonial product Features key essays by well-known theorists, such as Robert J. C. Young, Derek Gregory, and Achille Mbembe, and Vron Ware
The Seventeenth-century Literature Handbook
The Seventeenth-century Literature Handbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Seventeenth-century Literature Handbook write by Marshall Grossman. This book was released on 2011. The Seventeenth-century Literature Handbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Seventeenth Century Handbook provides the undergraduate with a succinct account of the century's events, along with an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time. - Provides a coherent narrative of the entire century of literary history as well as an easy-to-use guide to the principal literary works and figures - Offers an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time - Describes the continuities as well as the radical changes in this century of civil war and reformation - Combines a central narrative account of "texts and contexts? with a selection of brief essays on key texts and topics.
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies
The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies write by Neil Lazarus. This book was released on 2004-07-15. The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers a lucid introduction to postcolonial studies, one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.
A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction
A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction write by James F. English. This book was released on 2008-04-15. A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and economic contexts. Focuses on the fiction that has emerged since the late 1970s, roughly since the start of the Thatcher era. Comprises original essays from major scholars. Topics range from the rise and fall of the postcolonial novel to controversies over the celebrity author. The emphasis is on the whole fiction scene, from bookstores and prizes to the changing economics of film adaptation. Enables students to read contemporary works of British fiction with a much clearer sense of where they fit within British cultural life.
