Post-Colonial Studies Books

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41. Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia

    Edited by Poonam Trivedi, Minami Ryuta

    Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

    This book reviews the "playing" of Shakespeare in which there is a re-staging and a re-writing -- through adaptation, appropriation, or acculturation -- of the Western Shakespeare into the gestural, symbolic, stylized, or ritualized worlds of Asian theatre languages. It examines this interface in...

    Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
42. Reconciliation and Pedagogy

    Edited by Pal Ahluwalia, Stephen Atkinson, Peter Bishop, Pam Christie, Robert Hattam, Julie Matthews

    Series: Postcolonial Politics

    Reconciliation is one of the most significant contemporary challenges in the world today. In this innovative new volume, educational academics and practitioners across a range of cultural and political contexts examine the links between reconciliation and critical pedagogy, putting forward the...

    Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
43. Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton

    Power Play of Empire

    By Ben Grant

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    By engaging closely with the work of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the iconic nineteenth-century imperial spy, explorer, anthropologist and translator, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton explores the White Man’s ‘imperial fantasies’, and the ways in which the many metropolitan...

    Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
44. Postcolonial Nostalgias

    Writing, Representation and Memory

    By Dennis Walder

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread, yet often misunderstood, condition — nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national, historical, and personal boundaries. Walder analyses the writings of some of those entangled in the aftermath of...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
45. Edward Said's Translocations

    Essays in Secular Criticism

    Edited by Tobias Doring, Mark Stein

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    Working with processes of translocation enabled Edward Said to point out interdependence and complementarity across geographical borders and disciplinary boundaries while recognizing cultural difference and the distinct historical experiences of colonizer and colonized. This book brings into focus...

    Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
46. The City as Target

    Edited by Ryan Bishop, Gregory Clancey, John W. Phillips

    Series: Postcolonial Politics

    Bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, The City as Target provides a sustained and critical response to the relationship between the concept of targeting (in its many forms) and notions of understanding, imagining and shaping the urban. Among the many spatial and graphic...

    Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
47. Victorian Narrative Technologies in the Middle East

    By Cara Murray

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Victorian Narrative Technologies tells the story of how the British, who wanted nothing to do with the Suez Canal during the decades in which it was being internationally planned and invested, came to own it. It stands to reason that the nation that prided itself on its engineering prowess and had...

    Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
48. Postcolonial Audiences

    Readers, Viewers and Reception

    Edited by Bethan Benwell, James Procter, Gemma Robinson

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while...

    Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
49. Globalizing Dissent

    Essays on Arundhati Roy

    Edited by Ranjan Ghosh, Antonia Navarro-Tejero

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    Arundhati Roy is not only an accomplished novelist, but equally gifted in unraveling the politics of globalization, the power and ideology of corporate culture, fundamentalism, terrorism, and other issues gripping today’s world. This volume – featuring prominent scholars from...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
50. Subalternity and Difference

    Investigations from the North and the South

    Edited by Gyanendra Pandey

    Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

    Focusing on the idea of difference as a marker of subalternity, this book looks at the ways in which ordinary citizens have sought to present and identify themselves in ways that defy the conventional categorisations of governments and historical experience. Inspired particularly by questions...

    Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge