Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

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31. Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific

    Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction

    By Susan Y. Najita

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political independence. In particular, she...

    Published March 27th 2008 by Routledge
32. 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
33. Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography

    By David Huddart

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    Cultural theory has often been criticized for covert Eurocentric and universalist tendencies. Its concepts and ideas are implicitly applicable to everyone, ironing over any individuality or cultural difference. Postcolonial theory has challenged these limitations of cultural theory, and...

    Published October 25th 2007 by Routledge
34. Contemporary Arab Women Writers

    Cultural Expression in Context

    By Anastasia Valassopoulos

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    This book engages with contemporary Arab women writers from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. In spite of Edward Said’s groundbreaking reappraisal of the uneven relationship between the West and the Arab world in Orientalism, there has been little postcolonial criticism of Arab writing. ...

    Published October 16th 2007 by Routledge
35. English Writing and India, 1600–1920

    Colonizing Aesthetics

    By Pramod K. Nayar

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian...

    Published September 11th 2007 by Routledge
36. Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel

    National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English

    By Neelam Srivastava

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s and 90s. Examining writers such as Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, and Rohinton Mistry, with particularly close readings of...

    Published September 10th 2007 by Routledge
37. The Literature of the Indian Diaspora

    Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary

    By Vijay Mishra

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the ‘old’ Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery,...

    Published February 14th 2007 by Routledge
38. Women Writing the West Indies, 1804-1939

    'A Hot Place, Belonging To Us'

    By EVELYN O'CALLAGHAN

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole. It introduces a fascinating wealth of relatively unknown material and constitutes a timely interrogation of the supposed homogeneity of Caribbean discourse,...

    Published September 4th 2006 by Routledge
39. Islands in History and Representation

    Edited by Rod Edmond, VANESSA SMITH

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continentals. This study considers how island dwellers conceived of themselves and their relation to proximate mainlands, and examines the fascination that...

    Published September 4th 2006 by Routledge
40. Caribbean-English Passages

    Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition

    By Tobias Doring

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    Tobias Döring uses Postcolonialism as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevance to, and modification by, the Caribbean experience. Caribbean-English Passages opens an...

    Published September 4th 2006 by Routledge