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  • Transnation

    Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature and Culture

    by Bill Ashcroft ...
    Transnation: Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature and Culture offers a fresh and thought-provoking exploration of transnationalism, focusing on the mobility of populations who may not physically leave their national borders, but whose potential for movement subtly challenges the power and authority of the state. Drawing from postcolonial studies, it examines how marginalized and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Empire Writes Back

    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

    by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    Series series New Accents
    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 ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Studies

    The Key Concepts

    by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize postcolonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity.Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition contains more than 30 new entries, including:AnthropoceneBiopoliticsDecolonialityEcocriticismGlobal ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Caliban's Voice

    The Transformation of English in Post-Colonial Literatures

    by Bill Ashcroft ...
    In Shakespeare’s Tempest, Caliban says to Miranda and Prospero:"...you taught me language, and my profit on’tIs, I know how to curse. "With this statement, he gives voice to an issue that lies at the centre of post-colonial studies. Can Caliban own Prospero’s language? Can he use it to do more than curse?Caliban’s Voice examines the ways in which post-colonial literatures have transformed English ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures

    by Bill Ashcroft ...
    Postcolonial Studies is more often found looking back at the past, but in this brand new book, Bill Ashcroft looks to the future and the irrepressible demands of utopia. The concept of utopia – whether playful satire or a serious proposal for an ideal community – is examined in relation to the postcolonial and the communities with which it engages. Studying a very broad range of literature, poetry ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Post-Colonial Transformation

    by Bill Ashcroft ...
    In his new book, Bill Ashcroft gives us a revolutionary view of the ways in which post-colonial societies have responded to colonial control.The most comprehensive analysis of major features of post-colonial studies ever compiled, Post-Colonial Transformation:* demonstrates how widespread the strategy of transformation has been* investigates political and literary resistance* examines the nature ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Edward Said

    by Bill Ashcroft, Pal Ahluwalia ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of the landmark study Orientalism, a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies, and for his controversial journalism on the Palestinian political situation.Looking at the context and the impact of Said's scholarship and journalism, this book examines Said's key ideas, including:the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • A Companion to Mia Couto

    by Grant Hamilton, Bill Ashcroft, Stefan Helgesson, Phillip Rothwell, Andrew Mahlstedt, Emily Chow, David Huddart, David Brookshaw, Luis Madureira0, Elena Brugioni1, Irene Marques2, Patrick Chabal3 ...
    Already well-established in the Lusophone world, Mia Couto is increasingly acknowledged as a major voice in World literature. Winner of the Camões Prize for Literature in 2013, the most prestigious literary prize honouring Lusophone writers, he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2014, and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Yet, despite this ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Australia as the Antipodal Utopia

    European Imaginations From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

    by Daniel Hempel ...
    Australia has a fascinating history of visions. As the antipode to Europe, the continent has provided a radically different and uniquely fertile ground for envisioning places, spaces and societies. ‘The Antipodal Utopia’ evaluates this complex intellectual history by mapping out how Western visions of Australia evolved from antiquity to the modern period, with particular focus on the long ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Australia as the Antipodal Utopia

    European Imaginations From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

    by Daniel Hempel ...
    Australia has a fascinating history of visions. As the antipode to Europe, the continent has provided a radically different and uniquely fertile ground for envisioning places, spaces and societies. ‘The Antipodal Utopia’ evaluates this complex intellectual history by mapping out how Western visions of Australia evolved from antiquity to the modern period, with particular focus on the long ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • border and bordering

    Politics, Poetics, Precariousness

    by Jayjit Sarkar, Bill Ashcroft, Emma Musty, Nicoletta Policek, Salvatore Perri, Priya Menon, Sharmistha Chatterjee Sriwastav, Amanda Rutherford, Sarah Baker0, Sharmista Das1, Sandip Mondal2, Oriol J. Batalla3, Ratul Nandi4, Rajarshi Bagchi5, Aditya Kant Ghising6, Debapriya Paul7, Priyanka Chatterjee8, Goutam Buddha Sural9, Nirjhar Sarkar0 ...
    Border and Bordering: Politics, Poetics, Precariousness focuses on the idea of border and its various geopolitical, sociocultural, and cognitive incarnations. In recent times, border has emerged as a common trope in contemporary language with phenomena such as ‘bordering’, ‘borderless’, ‘building borders’, ‘breaking borders’, ‘crossing borders’, ‘porous borders’, and ‘shifting borders’. Whether ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Richard Flanagan

    Critical Essays

    by Ben Holgate, Robert Dixon, Joseph Cummins, Laura White, Bill Ashcroft, Salhia Ben Messahel, Marc Delrez, Margaret Harris, Nathanael O'Reilly, Theodore F. Sheckels, Nicholas Birns, Liliana Zavaglia ...
    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays is the first book to be published about the life and work of this major world author. Written by twelve leading critics from Australia, Europe and North America, these richly varied essays offer new ways of understanding Flanagan's contribution to Tasmanian, Australian and world literature.Flanagan's fictional worlds offer empathetic, often poignant, renderings of ... Read more

    $14.79 USD