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Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights

Product Description: An interdisciplinary collection of essays, Reworking Postcolonialism explores questions of work, precarity, migration, minority and indigenous rights in relation to contemporary globalization. It brings together political, economic and literary approaches to texts and events from across the postcolonial world...read more

By Janet Wilson (editor)

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9781137435927 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 22, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: An interdisciplinary collection of essays, Reworking Postcolonialism explores questions of work, precarity, migration, minority and indigenous rights in relation to contemporary globalization.

Edward Said's Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: Deconstructive Readings of Canonical Literature

Product Description: To dismantle the Myth of Authenticity, Edward Said consecutively tackles five interrelated epistemological fields related to imperialism: literary theory and criticism, cultural studies, the media, and ideology and politics. The first two interrelated aspects, researched in the first and second chapters of this book, underline works like The Letters and Shorter Fiction of Joseph Conrad (1964) Beginnings (1975), The World, the Text and the Critic (1983), Culture and Imperialism (1993) and Representations of the Intellectual (1994)...read more

By Eman El-meligi

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9781495502903 | Edwin Mellen Pr, March 15, 2015, cover price $159.95 | About this edition: To dismantle the Myth of Authenticity, Edward Said consecutively tackles five interrelated epistemological fields related to imperialism: literary theory and criticism, cultural studies, the media, and ideology and politics.

Literature's Sensuous Geographies: Postcolonial Matters of Place

Product Description: Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc. that often challenge the rationalizing logic of modernity. Through close readings of writers such as Conrad and Coetzee, Moslund invites scholars to shift focus from discourse analysis to aesthetic analysis...read more

By Sten Pultz Moslund

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9781137479679 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 12, 2015, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc.

Conversations of Motherhood: South African Women's Writing Across Traditions

By Ksenia Robbe

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9781869142889 | Univ of Natal Pr, February 2, 2015, cover price $33.50

Autobiography As a Writing Strategy in Postcolonial Literature

Product Description: Autobiography, a fully-recognised genre within mainstream literature today, has evolved massively in the last few decades, particularly through colonial and postcolonial texts. By using autobiography as a means of expression, many postcolonial writers were able to describe their experiences in the face of the denial of personal expression for centuries...read more

By Benaouda Lebdai (editor)

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9781443871570 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, February 1, 2015, cover price $71.95 | About this edition: Autobiography, a fully-recognised genre within mainstream literature today, has evolved massively in the last few decades, particularly through colonial and postcolonial texts.

Verallgemeinerung Im Diskurs: Generische Wissensindizierung in Kolonialem Sprachgebrauch

By Daniel Schmidt-Brucken

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9783110378351 | Mouton De Gruyter, January 19, 2015, cover price $140.00

Postmodern Literature and Race

Product Description: Postmodernism and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form...read more

By Sara Upstone (editor)

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9781107042483 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 2, 2015, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Postmodernism and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form.

Unmasking the African Dictator: Essays on Postcolonial African Literature

Product Description: This guide offers a thorough review of topics from the first two years of medical school. Because it is written by past and present medical students who know what it's like to study for the boards, "Cracking the Boards, USMLE--Step 1" presents the material in the clearest, most easily accessible manner possible...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (foreword by)

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9780375750922, titled "Cracking the Boards: Usmle Step 1" | Pap/cdr edition (Princeton Review, June 1, 1998), cover price $37.95 | also contains Cracking the Boards: Usmle Step 1 | About this edition: This guide offers a thorough review of topics from the first two years of medical school.

What Is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon

Product Description: What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in twentieth- and twenty-first century English and Anglophone literature, Ankhi Mukherjee demonstrates the relevance of the question of the classic for the global politics of identifying and perpetuating so-called core texts...read more

By Ankhi Mukherjee

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9780804785211 | Stanford Univ Pr, November 13, 2013, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: What Is a Classic?

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9780804795258 | Stanford Univ Pr, December 11, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: What Is a Classic?

Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres

Product Description: This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of literary form and aesthetics, this book gives premium to the literary, aiming to delineate the evolution of specific narrative techniques as part of an emerging postcolonial aesthetics...read more

By Saskia Schabio (editor)

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9780415539609 | Routledge, November 13, 2012, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres.

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9781138851634 | Routledge, November 10, 2014, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres.

The Future of Postcolonial Studies

By Chantal Zabus (editor)

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9780415714266 | Routledge, December 3, 2014, cover price $145.00

Extravagant Postcolonialism: Modernism and Modernity in Anglophone Fiction, 1958Â1988

By Brian May

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9781611173796, titled "Extravagant Postcolonialism: Modernism and Modernity in Anglophone Fiction, 1958â1988" | Univ of South Carolina Pr, October 30, 2014, cover price $49.95

The Postcolonial Historical Novel: Realism, Allegory, and the Representation of Contested Pasts

Product Description: The Postcolonial Historical Novel is the first systematic work to examine how the historical novel has been transformed by its appropriation in postcolonial writing. It proposes new ways to understand literary realism, and explores how the relationship between history and fiction plays out in contemporary African and Australasian writing...read more

By Hamish Dalley

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9781137450081 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 17, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The Postcolonial Historical Novel is the first systematic work to examine how the historical novel has been transformed by its appropriation in postcolonial writing.

States of Emergency: Colonialism, Literature and Law

Product Description: How can literature and culture from the postcolonial world help us to understand the relationship between law and violence associated with a state of emergency? And what light can legal narratives of emergency shed on postcolonial writing? States of Emergency: Colonialism, Literature and Law examines how violent anti-colonial struggles and the legal, military and political techniques employed by colonial governments to contain them have been imagined in literature and law...read more

By Stephen Morton

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9781846318498 | Liverpool Univ Pr, March 15, 2013, cover price $99.95

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9781781381144 | Liverpool Univ Pr, October 1, 2014, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: How can literature and culture from the postcolonial world help us to understand the relationship between law and violence associated with a state of emergency?

Violent Beginnings: Literary Representations of Postcolonial Algeria

Product Description: Violent Beginnings: Literary Representations of Postcolonial Algeria explores how violence, during the War of Independence (1954â1962) to the more recent civil war (1991â2002), has shaped literary representations of both family and nation in contemporary literature...read more

By Lucie Knight-santos

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9780739171646 | Lexington Books, October 24, 2014, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Violent Beginnings: Literary Representations of Postcolonial Algeria explores how violence, during the War of Independence (1954â1962) to the more recent civil war (1991â2002), has shaped literary representations of both family and nation in contemporary literature.

What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say

By Stuart Murray (editor)

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9780415857970, titled "What Postcolonial Theory Doesnât Say" | Routledge, September 1, 2015, cover price $145.00

Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to BolaÂ¤o

Product Description: At present, the bulk of the existing research on sex trafficking originates in the social sciences. Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature adds an original perspective on this issue by examining representations of sex trafficking in postcolonial literature...read more

By Laura Barberan Reinares

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9781138782686, titled "Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to BolaÃ±o" | Routledge, September 24, 2014, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: At present, the bulk of the existing research on sex trafficking originates in the social sciences.

Unmasking the African Dictator: Essays on Postcolonial African Literature

Product Description: In Africa, the development of odictatorship fictiono as a vehicle for depicting the authoritarian state arose more slowly than in other parts of the world. The dictator novel emerged earlier in Latin America, as the regionAEs anticolonial disengagement preceded that of Africa...read more

By Gichingiri Ndigirigi (editor)

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9781621900559 | Univ of Tennessee Pr, December 17, 2014, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In Africa, the development of odictatorship fictiono as a vehicle for depicting the authoritarian state arose more slowly than in other parts of the world.

Re-orientalism and Indian Writing in English

By Om Prakash Dwivedi

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9781137401557 | Palgrave Pivot, September 19, 2014, cover price $70.00

Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture: The Fractal Gaze

By Francoise Kral

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9781137401380 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 17, 2014, cover price $95.00

Writing Nation's History: A Study of Three Postcolonial Texts

By Amar Mishra

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9788131606636 | Rawat Pubns, September 1, 2014, cover price $50.00

Narrating the Postcolonial Nation: Mapping Angola and Mozambique

Product Description: The essays collected in this volume look at the way that Mozambican and Angolan literary works seek to narrate, re-create and make sense of the postcolonial nation. Some of the studies focus on individual works; others are comparative analyses of Angolan and Mozambican works, with a focus on the way they enter into dialogue with each other...read more

By Livia Apa (editor)

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9783034308915 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, August 18, 2014, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: The essays collected in this volume look at the way that Mozambican and Angolan literary works seek to narrate, re-create and make sense of the postcolonial nation.

The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings

Product Description: This book studies the creative discourse of the modern African diaspora by analyzing poems, novels, essays, hip-hop and dub poetry in the Caribbean, England, Spain, and Colombia, and capturing diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of dislocation and relocation, and efforts at political group affirmation and settlement, or âlocation...read more

By Jerome C. Branche

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9781138800168 | Routledge, September 9, 2014, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: This book studies the creative discourse of the modern African diaspora by analyzing poems, novels, essays, hip-hop and dub poetry in the Caribbean, England, Spain, and Colombia, and capturing diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of dislocation and relocation, and efforts at political group affirmation and settlement, or âlocation.

Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship: The Aesthetics of Tyranny

Product Description: The figure of the dictator looms large in representations of postcolonial Africa. Since the late 1970s, writers, film-makers and theorists have sought to represent the realities of dictatorship without endorsing the colonialist clichÃ©s portraying Africans as incapable of self-government...read more

By Cecile Bishop

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9781909662018 | Legenda, July 31, 2014, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: The figure of the dictator looms large in representations of postcolonial Africa.

Migrant Identities of "Creole Cosmopolitans": Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality

Product Description: One defining question links the essays of this collection: How do aesthetic and stylistic choices perform the condition of dislocation of the migrant and, in doing so, also put pressure on the seemingly global promise of cosmopolitanism? Migrant Identities of Â«Creole CosmopolitansÂ»: Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality offers a wide array of narratives that complicate the rhetoric of cosmopolitanism and the related discourses of Â«hybridityÂ»...read more

By Nirmala Menon (editor) and Marika Preziuso (editor)

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9781433118128 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 31, 2014, cover price $82.95 | About this edition: One defining question links the essays of this collection: How do aesthetic and stylistic choices perform the condition of dislocation of the migrant and, in doing so, also put pressure on the seemingly global promise of cosmopolitanism?

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