Literary studies: post-colonial literature books

3329 books were found.

Love Songs of Chandidas: The Rebel Poet-Priest of Bengal

Love Songs of Chandidas: The Rebel Poet-Priest of Bengal...

Author: Deben Bhattacharya
ISBN: 9781032767154
Format: Hardback
$189.00

First published in 1967, Love Songs of Chandidās provides an informative introduction which makes vividly clear...  Read More >>

The Order of Destruction: Monoculture in Colonial Caribbean Literature, c. 1640-1800

The Order of Destruction: Monoculture in Colonial Caribbean...

Author: Heinrich Wilke
ISBN: 9781032781280
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book studies sugarcane monoculture, the dominant form of cultivation in the colonial Caribbean, in the later...  Read More >>

Passages: On Geo-Analysis and the Aesthetics of Precarity

Passages: On Geo-Analysis and the Aesthetics of Precarity...

Author: Sam Okoth Opondo ,  Michael J. Shapiro
ISBN: 9781526174352
Format: Hardback
$206.99

This book is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text that invites inquiry into today's apocalyptic narratives,...  Read More >>

Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing: “Italians” Interpreting Difference

Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing: “Italians”...

Author: Jillian Loise Melchor
ISBN: 9781032721927
Format: Hardback
$103.00

The first comprehensive review of all extant ‘Italian’ chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes...  Read More >>

Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History

Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical...

Author: Hsu-Ming Teo ,  Paloma Fresno-Calleja (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)
ISBN: 9781032778211
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore,...  Read More >>

Gombrowicz: An Introduction

Gombrowicz: An Introduction

Author: Aleksandra Konarzewska (University of Tübingen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781032010434
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz’s life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Medea’s Long Shadow in Postcolonial Contexts

Medea’s Long Shadow in Postcolonial Contexts

Author: Ana Filipa Prata ,  Rodrigo Verano
ISBN: 9781032261119
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This interdisciplinary volume explores the ancient Greek myth of Medea and its global analogues found in other mythic...  Read More >>

Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise

Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise

Author: Joanne Leow
ISBN: 9781802074475
Format: Hardback
$258.75

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Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit

Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair...

Author: Sara Upstone (Kingston University, London, UK) ,  Peter Ely (independent scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350244061
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the...  Read More >>

New Zealand Medievalism: Reframing the Medieval

New Zealand Medievalism: Reframing the Medieval

Author: Anna Czarnowus ,  Janet M. Wilson
ISBN: 9781032262574
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Retrieving the Crip Outsider: Representations of Disability in Literature and Culture

Retrieving the Crip Outsider: Representations of Disability...

Author: Someshwar Sati
ISBN: 9789356402881
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Why are abnormal figures at the heart of literary canon and what do they tell us about the society that writes and...  Read More >>

Sindiwe Magona and the Power of Paradox: Challenging the Polarization of South African Discourse

Sindiwe Magona and the Power of Paradox: Challenging...

Author: Renée Schatteman
ISBN: 9781032598604
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of Resilience and Refusal

What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of...

Author: Susie O’Brien
ISBN: 9780228021346
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of Resilience and Refusal

What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of...

Author: Susie O’Brien
ISBN: 9780228021339
Format: Hardback
$290.40

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The Postcolonial Millennium: New Directions in Malaysian Literature in English

The Postcolonial Millennium: New Directions in Malaysian...

Author: Mohammad A. Quayum (Flinders University, Australia) ,  Grace V.S. Chin (Universiti Sains Malaysia)
ISBN: 9781032669724
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book comprises a collection of essays that address a significant gap in the study of Malaysian Literature in...  Read More >>

Twelve African Writers

Twelve African Writers

Author: Gerald Moore
ISBN: 9781032755434
Format: Hardback
$168.00

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Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War: The Poetics and Politics of Centenary Interventions

Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War: The...

Author: Anna Branach-Kallas
ISBN: 9781032633213
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics

Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics

Author: Heike Härting ,  Heather Meek
ISBN: 9781032431635
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume explores the variable meanings and discourses of historical and contemporary pandemics to rethink theories...  Read More >>

Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media

Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature,...

Author: Professor Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Dr Giulia Champion (Early Career Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781350271166
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age

Author: Professor David T. Mitchell (George Washington University, USA) ,  Sharon L. Snyder
ISBN: 9781350436671
Format: Paperback
$52.99

If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine...  Read More >>

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