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The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism yet compiled. This collection covers a huge range of topics, featuring nearly ninety of the discipline's most widely read works.The Reader's 90 extracts are designed to introduce the major issues and debates in the field of post-colonial literary studies. This field itself, however, has become so varied that no collection of readings could encompass every voice which is now giving itself the name "post-colonial." The editors, in order to avoid a volume which is simply a critical canon, have selected works representing arguments with which they do not necessarily agree, but rather which above all stimulate discussion, thought and further exploration.Post-colonial "theory" has occurred in all societies into which the imperial force of Europe has intruded, though not always in the official form of theoretical text. Like the description of any other field the term has come to mean many things, but this volume hinges on one incontestable phenomenon: the "historical fact"of colonialism, and the palpable consequences to which this phenomenon gave rise. The topic involves talk about experience of various kinds: migration, slavery, suppression, resistance, representation, difference, race, gender, place, and reaction to the European influence, and about the fundamental experiences of speaking and writing by which all these come into being. In compiling this reader, the editors have sought to stimulate people to ask: "How might a genuinely post-colonial literary enterprise proceed?" The fourteen sections include: Issues and Debates; Universality and Difference; Textual Representation and Resistance; Postmodernism and Post-Colonialism; Nationalism; Hybridity; Ethnicity and Indigenity; Feminism and Post-Colonialism; Language; The Body and Performance; History; Place; Education; and Production and Consumption.Contributors include many of the leading post-colonial theorists and critics--such as Franz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Homi Bhabba, Derek Walcott, Edward Said, and Trinh T. Minh-ha--in addition to a number of the discourse's newer voices. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader will prove an authoritative compilation, representing an invaluable contribution to the study of post-colonial theory and criticism.
Hardcover:
9780415345644 | 2 edition (Routledge, February 15, 2006), cover price $145.00
9780415096218 | Routledge, March 1, 1995, cover price $175.00
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9780415345651 | 2 edition (Routledge, January 13, 2006), cover price $49.95
9780415096225 | Routledge, March 1, 1995, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism yet compiled.
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Hardcover:
9780312295769 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 6, 2005, cover price $93.00
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9780312295776 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 6, 2005, cover price $42.00
Product Description: The first book of long fiction by an African to be published in English, this novel tells the story of a young woman of the Vai people in Liberia. Guanya Pau, betrothed as a child to a much older, polygamous man, flees her home rather than be forced into marriage, and the novel recounts her subsequent efforts to reach the Christian community where the man she loves awaits her...read more
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9781551113654 | Broadview Pr, November 30, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The first book of long fiction by an African to be published in English, this novel tells the story of a young woman of the Vai people in Liberia.
Paperback:
9789514458903 | Tampere Univ Pr, September 30, 2004, cover price $99.50
Product Description: Disputed Territories investigates the significance of land for contesting cultural identities in comparable settler societies. In the regions of Australasia and southern Africa, European visions of landscape and nature have engaged with southern hemisphere environments and the cultures of indigenous peoples...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9789622096486 | Hong Kong Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Disputed Territories investigates the significance of land for contesting cultural identities in comparable settler societies.
Miscellaneous:
9789882201033 | Hong Kong Univ Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $40.00
The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture. The Empire Writes Back was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture, and remains one of the most significant works published in this field. The authors, three leading figures in post-colonial studies, open up debates about the interrelationships of post-colonial literatures, investigate the powerful forces acting on language in the post-colonial text, and show how these texts constitute a radical critique of Eurocentric notions of literature and language. This book is brilliant not only for its incisive analysis, but for its accessibility for readers new to the field. Now with an additional chapter and an updated bibliography, The Empire Writes Back is essential for contemporary post-colonial studies. (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780415280198 | 2 edition (Routledge, October 1, 2002), cover price $130.00 | About this edition: The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English.
Paperback:
9780415280204 | 2 edition (Routledge, October 1, 2002), cover price $31.95
Product Description: Here is an introduction to the history of English writing from East and West Africa drawing on a range of texts from the slave diaspora to the post-war upsurge in African English language and literature from these regions. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780582089259 | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, April 1, 2000, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: This text examining African literature in English covers topics such as 18th and 19th-century slave narratives of the black diaspora, 19th and early-20th-century histories, travel accounts, political writing and the beginnings of fiction.
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9780582089266 | Taylor & Francis, June 1, 2000, cover price $83.95 | About this edition: Here is an introduction to the history of English writing from East and West Africa drawing on a range of texts from the slave diaspora to the post-war upsurge in African English language and literature from these regions.
Product Description: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780415153034 | Routledge, September 1, 1998, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: First published in 2000.
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9780415153041 | Routledge, May 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | also contains Frozen: The Junior Novelization, Frozen: The Junior Novelization
Hardcover:
9780387548050 | Springer Verlag, September 1, 1993, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
Product Description: John Romeril has been one of the most prolific contributors to Australian theatre in the last twenty years. But since until recently few of his plays have been published, he has had inadequate recognition. As a founding member of the APG he was 'in at the start' of the revival of the so-called New Wave in Australian drama in the sixties...read more
Paperback:
9789051835243 | Rodopi Bv Editions, July 1, 1993, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: John Romeril has been one of the most prolific contributors to Australian theatre in the last twenty years.
Product Description: During World War I, many working class women found themselves employed outside the home for the first time, the number of women working in trades already associated with a female work force increased, traditionally male-dominated industries recruited women to fill the shortfall, and the concentration of women employed in government munitions factories grew...read more
Hardcover:
9780862997953 | Sutton Pub Ltd, June 1, 1991, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: During World War I, many working class women found themselves employed outside the home for the first time, the number of women working in trades already associated with a female work force increased, traditionally male-dominated industries recruited women to fill the shortfall, and the concentration of women employed in government munitions factories grew.
Hardcover:
9780714526232 | Marion Boyars, June 1, 1980, cover price $7.95
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