Routledge Literature Research

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 October 8th 2003 by Routledge

Writing Sri Lanka

Literature, Resistance & the Politics of Place

By Minoli Salgado

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Focusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced both the production and critical reception of texts, Salgado presents a detailed analysis of eight leading Sri Lankan writers - Michael Ondaatje, Romesh Gunasekera, Shyam Selvadurai, A. Sivanandan, Jean Arasanayagam, Carl Muller, James...

Published December 17th 2006 by Routledge

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 10th 2003 by Routledge

Transnationalism in Southern African Literature

Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture

By Stefan Helgesson

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique. Stefan Helgesson suggests that the prevalence of ‘colonial’ languages such as English and Portuguese...

Published August 20th 2008 by Routledge

Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature

Remitting the Text

By Kezia Page

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural study responds to the general trend in migration discourse that presents the Caribbean experience...

Published August 15th 2010 by Routledge

The Postsecular Imagination

Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature

By Manav Ratti

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be...

Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge

The Postcolonial Gramsci

Edited by Neelam Srivastava, Baidik Bhattacharya

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

The importance of Antonio Gramsci’s work for postcolonial studies can hardly be exaggerated, and in this volume, contributors situate Gramsci's work in the vast and complex oeuvre of postcolonial studies. Specifically, this book endeavors to reassess the impact on postcolonial studies of the...

Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge

The Postcolonial City and its Subjects

London, Nairobi, Bombay

By Rashmi Varma

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and contemporary debates on urbanism through the filter of postcolonial fictions and the...

Published August 4th 2011 by Routledge

The Idea of the Antipodes

Place, People, and Voices

By Matthew Boyd Goldie

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This study uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes—the places and people on the other side of the world—from ancient Greece to present-day literature and digital media. Taking into account maps, letters, book illustrations, travel writing,...

Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge

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

Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947

By Alex Tickell

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key crisis moments in the history of British colonial rule such as the ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta, the...

Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge

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

Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures

Literature, Cinema and Music

Edited by Karima Laachir, Saeed Talajooy

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music, the collection uses the concept of '...

Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge

Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present

By S. Salih

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This study considers cultural representations of "brown" people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the Abolition era onwards. Through close readings of contemporary fictions and "histories," Salih probes the extent to which colonial ideologies may have been...

Published December 2nd 2010 by Routledge

Publishing the Postcolonial

Anglophone West African and Caribbean Writing in the UK 1948-1968

By Gail Low

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This book explores how writers such as Amos Tutuola, George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, VS Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, and Wole Soyinka came to be published in London in important educational series such as the Three Crown Series and African Writers Series. Low takes...

Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge

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 September 30th 2008 by Routledge

Postcolonial Tourism

Literature, Culture, and Environment

By Anthony Carrigan

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in highly exoticized island states that are still grappling with the legacies of western colonialism, Carrigan contends that postcolonial writers not only...

Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge

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

Postcolonial Pacific Writing

Representations of the Body

By Michelle Keown

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This major new interdisciplinary study focuses on the representation of the body in the work of eight of Polynesia's most significant contemporary writers. Drawing on anthropology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, history and medicine, Postcolonial Pacific Writing develops an innovative postcolonial...

Published December 16th 2004 by Routledge

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 October 4th 2010 by Routledge

Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East

Rethinking the Liminal in Mashriqi Writing

By Norbert Bugeja

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This book reconsiders the notion of liminality in postcolonial critical discourse today. By visiting Mashriqi writers of memoir, Bugeja offers a unique intervention in the understanding of 'in-between' and ‘threshold’ states in present-day postcolonialist thought. His analysis situates liminal...

Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge

Postcolonial Life-Writing

Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation

By Bart Moore-Gilbert

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Postcolonial Life-Writing is the first attempt to offer a sustained critique of this increasingly visible and influential field of cultural production. Bart Moore-Gilbert considers the relationship between postcolonial life-writing and its western analogues, identifying the key characteristics that...

Published June 3rd 2009 by Routledge

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 October 18th 2000 by Routledge

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 4th 2005 by Routledge

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

Postapartheid Literature

Mourning and the Reinvention of Community

By Samuel Durrant

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This book explores the ways in which postapartheid literature reinvents South African mourning traditions. During the apartheid era, politics exerted a particular pressure on both funerary practices and on literature, both of which were instrumentalised as weapons in the struggle: just as funerals...

To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge

Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa

A Postcolonial Outlook

Edited by Mounira Soliman, Walid El Hamamsy

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural issues in film, cartoons...

Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge

Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization

Exploiting Eden

By Sharae Deckard

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses paradise discourse in a wide range of writing from Mexico, Zanzibar, and Sri Lanka, including novels by authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera. Tracing dialectical...

Published December 2nd 2009 by Routledge

Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective

By Anna Ball

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary and filmic works by major creative...

Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge

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 April 8th 1998 by Routledge

Locating Transnational Ideals

Edited by Walter Goebel, Saskia Schabio

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This volume defines versions of the transnational in their historical and cultural specificity. By "locating," the contributors contextualize historical and contemporary understandings of the fluid term "transnational," which vary in relation to the disciplines involved. This kind of historical and...

Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge

Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres

Edited by Walter Goebel, Saskia Schabio

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of literary form and aesthetics, this...

Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge

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

Literary Radicalism in India

Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence

By Priyamvada Gopal

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Literary Radicalism in India situates postcolonial Indian literature in relation to the hugely influential radical literary movements initiated by the Progressive Writers Association and the Indian People's Theatre Association. In so doing, it redresses a visible historical gap in studies of...

Published March 8th 2005 by Routledge

Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures

Multilingual Contexts, Translational Texts

Edited by Simona Bertacco

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This book explores postcolonial literatures from a translational perspective and argues that postcolonial studies should become a discourse of and on translation in order to be responsive to the complexity of the textuality, and even the literariness, of postcolonial texts. In a world where bi- and...

To Be Published October 11th 2013 by Routledge

Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa

By James Graham

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

In this volume, Graham investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s to the present. This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses a wide range of writing against a backdrop of regional decolonization, including novels by...

Published March 31st 2009 by Routledge

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 May 21st 2003 by Routledge

Generating the Hybrid City

Women Writers Create Urban Space

By Isabel Carrera Suárrez

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This book is a study of the representation of the global, postcolonial, hybrid city by women writers in English. Focusing specifically on London, Toronto, and Singapore as examples of different positions in the postcolonial process, Suarez grounds her discussion on theories of the global city;...

To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema

Salman Rushdie’s Novels and the Cinematic Imagination

By Florian Stadtler

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This book analyses the novels of Salman Rushdie and their stylistic conventions in the context of Indian popular cinema and its role in the elaboration of the author’s arguments about post-independence postcolonial India. Focusing on different genres of Indian popular cinema, such as the ‘Social’,...

To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge

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 December 16th 2009 by Routledge

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

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

Discourses of Imperialism in the Pacific

The Anglo-American Encounter

Edited by Michelle Keown, Andrew Taylor, Mandy Treagus

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This interdisciplinary collection explores the confluence of American and British (neo)imperalism in the Pacific, as represented in various forms of Pacific discourse including literature, ethnography, film, painting, autobiography, journalism, and environmental discourse. It investigates the...

To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge

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 September 28th 2006 by Routledge

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

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

Edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Fiction by writers of Muslim background forms one of the most diverse, vibrant and high-profile corpora of work being produced today - from the trail-blazing writing of Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi, which challenged political and racial orthodoxies in the 1980s, to that of a new generation...

Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge

Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women’s Literature

Edited by Joy Mahabir, Mariam Pirbhai

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This book is the first collection on Indo-Caribbean women's writing and the first work to offer a sustained analysis of the literature from a range of theoretical and critical perspectives, such as ecocriticism, feminist, queer, post-colonial and Caribbean cultural theories. The essays not only lay...

Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge

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 December 19th 2001 by Routledge

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

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

Caribbean-English Passages

Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition

By Tobias Döring

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 December 12th 2001 by Routledge

American Pacificism

Oceania in the U.S. Imagination

By Paul Lyons

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This provocative analysis and critique of American representations of Oceania and Oceanians from the nineteenth century to the present, argues that imperial fantasies have glossed over a complex, violent history. It introduces the concept of ‘American Pacificism’, a theoretical framework that draws...

Published November 23rd 2005 by Routledge

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 February 21st 2001 by Routledge