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Postcolonial literatures can be defined as the body of creative work written by authors whose lands were formerly subjugated to colonial rule. In previous volumes of this series, the research litera……続きを見る

Winner of the 2015 A-Asia/ICAS Africa-Asia Book Prize, a global competition, for the best book in English, French, or Portuguese on any topic linking Asia and Africa. The Magellan Fallacy argues tha……続きを見る

The story of a young girl who falls victim to the environment around her. (20,000 words; roughly 40 pages single-spaced)   *There is a preview of another story is at the end of this ……続きを見る

In The Nation Writ Small, Susan Z. Andrade focuses on the work of Africa’s first post-independence generation of novelists, explaining why male writers came to be seen as the voice of Africa’s new n……続きを見る

How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of intense social and political upheaval? South African Literature's Russian Soul charts the interplay of narrative innovation and politi……続きを見る

Nostromo (full title Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard) is a 1904 novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". It was originally published se……続きを見る

Against a disturbing political backdrop and through an in-depth appraisal of selected illustrative texts from major genresーpoetry, prose, and dramaーEmmanuel Fru Doh presents the origins and growth……続きを見る

This book responds to the failures of human rightsーthe way its institutions and norms reproduce geopolitical imbalances and social exclusionsーthrough an analysis of how literary and visual culture……続きを見る

There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by o……続きを見る

In this book the author Amira is informing you what their point of view of what it is like in the american black society today. They shares with you the African American society and how certain peop……続きを見る

Ez regény 1885-ben jelent meg először. Írójának első munkája volt, s azonnal nagy sikert aratott. Nem ok nélkül. Haggard hosszú évekig élt az akkor még titokzatos és jórészt ismeretlen Afrikában. Is……続きを見る

This book is a seminal study that significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema by exploring Africa’s under-visited carnivalesque poetics of laughter. Focusi……続きを見る

This book is an essential introduction to significant texts in postcolonial theory. It looks at seminal works in the ‘moments of their making’ and delineates the different threads that bind postcolo……続きを見る

Le poète Bouschedy nous conduit dans un labyrinthe où le verbe dit, à travers différentes scansions, la complainte d’un esprit fulminant sa révolte. Il parle d’une Afrique engluée depuis près d’un s……続きを見る

This book uses the uniquely positioned culture of East African Asians to reflect upon the most vexing issues in postcolonial literary studies today. By examining the local histories and discourses t……続きを見る

Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World historie……続きを見る

Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between African writers and British publishers, and importan……続きを見る

Comparative study of the writings and strategies of European women in two colonies, French Algeria and British Kenya, during the twentieth century. Its central theme is women's discursive contributi……続きを見る

Drawing on postcolonial and gender studies, as well as affect theory, the book interrogates cosmopolitan philosophies. Through analysis of J.M. Coetzee's later fiction, Hallemeier invites the re-ima……続きを見る

Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature examines the popular literary stereotype, the tragic mulatto, from a transnational perspective. Mafe considers the ways in which speci……続きを見る

The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between human……続きを見る

Anglophone postcolonial studies has been characterized by its secular nature. Yet as the first generation of scholars grapples with mortality, a yearning for spiritual meaning is emerging in many te……続きを見る

The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned ……続きを見る

The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between human……続きを見る

With the backdrop of new global powers, this volume interrogates the state of writing in English. Strongly interdisciplinary, it challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of postcolonial literary theory. ……続きを見る

An analysis of literary accounts of suffering from sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines fiction and life-writing in English and French over the last forty years. Drawing on writers from the canoni……続きを見る

In The Slow Philosophy of J.M. Coetzee Jan Wilm analyses Coetzee's singular aesthetic style which, he argues, provokes the reader to read his works slowly. The effected 'slow reading' is developed i……続きを見る

In The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora, Vivian Nun Halloran examines food memoirs by immigrants and their descendants and reveals how their treatment of food deeply embeds concerns ……続きを見る

The era of national liberation and decolonization may have come and gone, but postcolonialism remains a largely elusive ideal in the early twenty-first century. In Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Pe……続きを見る

This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equ……続きを見る