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71. The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature

    Edited by Michael A. Bucknor, Alison Donnell

    Series: Routledge Literature Companions

    The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work. The volume is divided into six sections that consider: the foremost figures of the Anglophone Caribbean literary tradition and a...

    Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
72. Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change

    Race, Sex and Nation

    By Gerardine Meaney

    Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

    This book analyzes the roots of Irish social and sexual conservatism and the dramatic change in one of the most basic areas of human experience: how we understand our roles as men and women. It looks at the relationship between sexual and cultural dissent and the long, slow role of culture in...

    Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
73. Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives

    Violence and Violation

    Edited by Sorcha Gunne, Zoe Brigley Thompson

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the contributors aim to incorporate arguments about trauma...

    Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
74. Native American Writing

    Edited by A. Robert Lee

    Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse If white settlers landing in the New World brought with them smallpox, oppression, and Christianity, they also conveyed the cultural practice of writing. Adopters of this technology from within Native America and First Nations Canada began to adapt...

    Published May 3rd 2011 by Routledge
75. Contemporary English-Language Indian Children’s Literature

    Representations of Nation, Culture, and the New Indian Girl

    By Michelle Superle

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children’s literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children’s Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far garnered little serious critical attention. Superle critically examines the ways Indian children’s...

    Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge
76. From Orientalism to Postcolonialism

    Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference

    Edited by Sucheta Mazumdar, Vasant Kaiwar, Thierry Labica

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

    This book uses a historical and theoretical focus to examine the key of issues of the Enlightenment, Orientalism, concepts of identity and difference, and the contours of different modernities in relation to both local and global shaping forces, including the spread of capitalism. The contributors...

    Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
77. Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India

    By Naheem Jabbar

    Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

    A critical examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing. In the years preceding formal Independence from British colonial rule, Indians found themselves responding to the panorama of sin and suffering that constituted the modern present in a variety of imaginative ways. This book is a...

    Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
78. Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures

    By Annalisa Oboe, Shaul Bassi

    Modern ideas of freedom and human rights have been repeatedly contested and are hotly debated at the beginning of the third millennium in response to new theories, needs, and challenges in contemporary life. This volume offers culturally diverse contributions to the debate on freedom from the...

    Published March 22nd 2011 by Routledge
79. Sadeq Hedayat

    His Work and his Wondrous World

    Edited by Homa Katouzian

    Series: Iranian Studies

    Featuring contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited collection provides detailed scholarly analysis of Hedayat's life and work using a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches. Hedayat...

    Published March 14th 2011 by Routledge
80. Close to the Sources

    Essays on Contemporary African Culture, Politics and Academy

    By Abebe Zegeye, Maurice Vambe

    Series: Routledge African Studies

    European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of...

    Published March 14th 2011 by Routledge