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1	The Post-Colonial Studies Reader more books like this by Bill Ashcroft add to wishlist The essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 121 extracts from key works in the field. Leading, as well as lesser known figures in the fields of writing, theory and criticism contribute to this inspiring body of work that ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $33.08! \| first editions \| SVS
2	A more books like this by Padmini Mongia (Editor) add to wishlist There is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices, severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of this theory have also been raised. This Reader is positioned at the juncture where it can address these contestations. It makes available some ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $41.24! \| SVS
3	Postcolonial Literature more books like this by Justin D Edwards add to wishlist This Guide analyses the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions of the postcolonial world. Criticism on works by writers such as Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie is discussed to illustrate the themes and concepts essential to an understanding of postcolonial literature and the development of criticism in the field. see all copies from $17.20! new only from $24.62! \| SVS
4	Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature more books like this by Amritjit Singh (Editor), Peter Schmidt (Editor) add to wishlist Probing essays that examine critical issues surrounding the United States's ever-expanding international cultural identity in the postcolonial era Download Plain Text version At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we may be in a "transnational" moment, increasingly aware of the ways in which local and national narratives, in literature ... see all copies from $20.64! new only from $36.00! \| SVS
5	Hearts of Darkness: White Women Write Race more books like this by Jane Marcus add to wishlist In this book, one of modernism's most insightful critics, Jane Marcus, examines the writings of novelists such as Virginia Woolf, Nancy Cunard, Mulk Raj Anand, and Djuna Barnes, artists whose work coincided with the end of empire and the rise of fascism before the Second World War. All these writers delved into the "dark hearts" of imperialism and ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $4.98! \| SVS
6	The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English more books like this by C L Innes add to wishlist The past century has witnessed the extraordinary flowering of fiction, poetry and drama from countries previously colonised by Britain, an output which has changed the map of English literature. This introduction, from a leading figure in the field, explores a wide range of Anglophone post-colonial writing from Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, ... see all copies from $6.69! new only from $6.69! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism more books like this by Graham Huggan add to wishlist The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. In a provocative contribution to the series, Graham Huggan presents fresh readings of an outstanding, sometimes ... see all copies from $18.37! new only from $18.37! \| first editions
8	Postcolonial Poetry in English more books like this by Rajeev S Patke add to wishlist The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. Postcolonial Poetry in English provides a comprehensive introduction to the ... see all copies from $29.87! new only from $33.25! \| first editions
9	Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue more books like this by Professor Yumna Siddiqi add to wishlist Focusing on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century stories of detection, policing, and espionage by British and South Asian writers, Yumna Siddiqi presents an original and compelling exploration of the cultural anxieties created by imperialism. She suggests that while colonial writers use narratives of intrigue to endorse imperial rule, ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $13.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Modernism and the Post-Colonial: Literature and Empire 1885-1930 more books like this by Professor Peter Childs add to wishlist This book considers the shifts in aesthetic representation over the period 1885-1930 that coincide with both the rise of literary Modernism and imperialism's high point. If it is no coincidence that the rise of the novel accompanied the expansion of empire in the eighteenth-century, then the historical conditions of fiction as the empire waned are ... see all copies from $40.26! new only from $98.99! \| SVS
11 view cover	Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain more books like this by Ashley Dawson add to wishlist "Mongrel Nation" surveys the history of the United Kingdom's African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory. Ashley Dawson argues that during the past fifty years Asian and black intellectuals from Sam Selvon to Zadie Smith have ... see all copies from $17.06! new only from $45.00! \| SVS
12 view cover	The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945 more books like this by Professor Eric Cheyfitz (Editor) add to wishlist "The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945" is the first major volume of its kind to focus on Native literatures in a postcolonial context. Written by a team of noted Native and non-Native scholars, these essays consider the complex social and political influences that have shaped American Indian literatures ... see all copies from $18.05! new only from $38.46! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Language of Post-Colonial Literatures: An Introduction more books like this by Ismail S Talib, S Talib Ismail add to wishlist This is a comprehensive introduction to some of the central features of language in a wide variety of postcolonial texts, providing an invaluable introduction for anyone with an interest in the evolution and development of English and its use in contemporary world literatures. see all copies from $34.05! new only from $34.05! \| SVS
14 view cover	Experimental Arabic Novel the: Postcolonial Literary Modernism in the Levant more books like this by Stefan G Meyer add to wishlist The Experimental Arabic Novel places the modern and contemporary Arabic novel in the context of the modernist-postmodern culture debate in the West. Tracing the development of experimentalism in the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present, Meyer argues that it is possible to speak of distinct literary modernisms that have each evolved ... see all copies from $24.95! new only from $24.95!
15 view cover	The Fiction of Imperialism: Reading Between Intercolonial Reliations & Postcolonialism more books like this by Phillip Darby (Editor) add to wishlist The Fiction of Imperialism attempts to promote dialogue between international relations and postcolonialism. It addresses the value of fiction to an inderstanding of the imperial relationship between the West and Asia and Africa. A wide range of fiction and crisicism is examined as it pertains to colonialism, the North/South engagement and ... see all copies from $23.85! new only from $32.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Derek Walcott more books like this by John Thieme add to wishlist John Thieme provides a comprehensive study of Derek Walcott's writing from its beginning in the 1940s to his most recent work. Walcott's poetry and drama are set against the background of various contexts and intertexts - Caribbean, European and other - which have shaped him as a writer. The book contains a broad overview of Walcott's career for ... see all copies from $21.00! new only from $22.18! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Calibrations: Reading for the Social more books like this by Professor Ato Quayson add to wishlist Proposes an entirely new socially and politically conscious way of reading. Ato Quayson explores a practice of reading that oscillates rapidly between domains--the literary-aesthetic, the social, the cultural, and the political--in order to uncover the mutually illuminating nature of these domains. He does this not to assert the often repeated ... see all copies from $11.16! new only from $24.00! \| SVS
18 view cover	Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis more books like this by John McLeod add to wishlist Postcolonial London explores the imaginative transformation of London by African, Asian, Caribbean and South Pacific writers since the 1950s. Engaging with a range of writers from Sam Selvon and Doris Lessing to Hanif Kureishi and Fred D'Aguiar, John McLeod examines a cultural history of resistance to the prejudice and racism that have at least in ... see all copies from $35.60! new only from $35.60! \| SVS
19 view cover	Negotiating Identities in Women's Lives: English Postcolonial and Contemporary British Novels more books like this by Christine Wick Sizemore add to wishlist Juxtaposes women's novels from different cultures to highlight narrative reconfigurations and women's renegotiations of identities at different ages. Women face different psychological issues at different ages. But these issues and the experience of confronting them depend on cultural contexts. Literary works represent these psychological and ... see all copies from $39.18! new only from $43.96! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Conrad and the Millennium: Modernism, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism more books like this by Gail Fincham (Editor), Attie DeLange (Editor), Professor Wieslaw Krajka (Editor) add to wishlist This two-volume collection is international and interdisciplinary in scope drawing on a large range of theoretical perspectives ranging from archival scholarship to cultural geography and film studies. There are four sections: Modernism and Modernity; Postmodernism: Intertextuality; Postmodernism: Gaze, Vision and Voice; and Postcolonialism. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $8.80!
21 view cover	Infusion Approach: Theory, Contestation, Limits: (In)Fusionising a Few Indian English Novels more books like this by Ranjan Ghosh (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $19.69! new only from $22.50!
22 view cover	Native Intelligence: Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Literature more books like this by Deepika Bahri add to wishlist A compelling reclamation of the place of aesthetics in postcolonial literature. "Literature" though it may be, postcolonial literature is studied and understood largely--and often solely--in social and political terms. In neglecting its aesthetic dimension, as this book forcefully demonstrates, we are overlooking not only an essential aspect of ... see all copies from $22.50! new only from $36.29!
23 view cover	Autobiography and Decolonization: Modernity, Masculinity, and the Nation-State more books like this by Philip Holden add to wishlist Philip Holden reveals deeply gendered connections between the writing of individual lives and of the narratives of nations emerging from colonialism. "Autobiography and Decolonization" is the first book to give serious academic attention to autobiographies of nationalist leaders in the process of decolonization, attending to them not simply as ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $42.25! \| SVS
24 view cover	Confluences more books like this by John Cullen Gruesser add to wishlist Confluences looks at the prospects for and the potential rewards of breaking down theoretical and disciplinary barriers that have tended to separate African American and postcolonial studies. John Cullen Gruesser's study emphasizes the confluences among three major theories that have emerged in literary and cultural studies in the past twenty-five ... see all copies from $18.98! new only from $18.98!
25 view cover	Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott more books like this by Paul Breslin add to wishlist This volume offers an illuminating look at the St Lucian, Nobel prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. see all copies from $25.93! new only from $25.93! \| SVS

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