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1. The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism

   Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut

   Edited by Caroline Rooney, Rita Sakr

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   This transnational collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces on the 1982 Siege of Beirut explores literary representations of the siege by a diverse set of writers alongside journalism and other media including film and art. The book investigates and promotes an awareness of an ethics...

   To Be Published October 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. Decolonising Gender

   Literature and a poetics of the real

   By Caroline Rooney

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature – from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare – Rooney explores the nature of the real, providing: a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist theory an anti-essentialist...

   Published November 6th 2007 by Routledge
3. African Literature, Animism and Politics

   By Caroline Rooney

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of the African discourse of consciousness and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism. It will be of great interest to scholars in many fields including literary and critical theory,...

   Published August 31st 2006 by Routledge