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  1. Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature

    By Laurel Plapp

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a...

    Published May 13th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Negotiating the Modern

    Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World

    By Amit Ray

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual, religious and cultural history) where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral,...

    Published May 13th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Sir Thomas Malory

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by Marylyn Parins

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Laurence Sterne

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by Alan B. Howes

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Thomas Hardy

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by R. G. Cox

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. EAch volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Thomas Carlyle

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by Jules Paul Siegel

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in liteature. Each volume presents contemporary responses on a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge

  7. George Crabbe

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by Arthur Pollard

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor

    A Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland, Africa and America

    By Patsy J. Daniels

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This book examines works from twelve authors from colonized cultures who write in English: William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Maxine Hong Kinston, Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, Alic Walker, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko. The book fins...

    Published May 2nd 2013 by Routledge

  9. Race and Masculinity in Contemporary American Prison Novels

    By Auli Ek

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how contemporary American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of masculinity in the United States, and in so doing, compellingly engages popular culture in order to demonstrate the profound ways in which implicit understandings of...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Mobile Homes

    Spatial and Cultural Negotiation in Asian American Literature

    By Su-Ching Huang

    Series: Studies in Asian Americans

    The writers discussed in the book include Chiang Yee, Hualing Nieh, David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, John Okada, and Toshio Mori. Their publication dates span from the 1940s up to 2000....

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge