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Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Series Editor: Caroline Rooney, Donna Landry, Alex Padamsee

Edited in collaboration with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the field. Volumes concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonized areas, and include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures.

Part of our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections, this series considers postcolonial literature alongside topics such as gender, race, ecology, religion, politics, and science. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics. Series editors: Donna Landry and Caroline Rooney

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  1. Writing Woman, Writing Place

    Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction

    By Sue Kossew

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a problematic relationship to place and belonging, relations with indigenous people and the way in which women's subjectivity...

    Published August 31st 2006 by Routledge

  2. Postcolonial Conrad

    Paradoxes of Empire

    By Terry Collits

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    Winner of the 2006 NSW Prize for Literary Scholarship. The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so disparately that it is tempting to talk of many different Conrads. One lasting impression however, is that his colonial novels, which record encounters between Europe and Europe’s ‘Other’, are highly...

    Published August 31st 2006 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

  4. Civility and Empire

    Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921

    By Anindyo Roy

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the...

    Published December 8th 2004 by Routledge

  5. The Postcolonial Jane Austen

    Edited by You-Me Park, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    This volume offers a unique contribution to both postcolonial studies and Austen scholarship by: * examining the texts to illumine nineteenth century attitudes to colonialism and the expanding Empire* revealing a new range of interpretations of Austen's work, each shaped by the critic's particular...

    Published March 24th 2004 by Routledge

  6. Magical Realism in West African Fiction

    By BRENDA COOPER

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers: Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben Okri of Nigeria and Kojo Laing of Ghana. Brenda Cooper explores the distinct elements of the genre...

    Published February 18th 2004 by Routledge

  7. Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry

    Making Style

    By Denise deCaires Narain

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are contextualized both within Caribbean cultural debates and postcolonial and feminist critical...

    Published February 18th 2004 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Generating the Hybrid City: Women Writers Create Urban Space
    By Isabel Carrera Suárrez
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  2. Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921
    By Anindyo Roy
    To Be Published June 19th 2013
  3. Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures: Multilingual Contexts, Translational Texts
    Edited by Simona Bertacco
    To Be Published October 11th 2013
  4. The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut
    Edited by Caroline Rooney, Rita Sakr
    To Be Published October 13th 2013
  5. Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdie’s Novels and the Cinematic Imagination
    By Florian Stadtler
    To Be Published October 14th 2013
  6. Postapartheid Literature: Mourning and the Reinvention of Community
    By Samuel Durrant
    To Be Published January 31st 2014
  7. Discourses of Imperialism in the Pacific: The Anglo-American Encounter
    Edited by Michelle Keown, Andrew Taylor, Mandy Treagus
    To Be Published January 31st 2014

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