Author: David Huddart
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: postcolonial, literatures, research, autobiography, theory, routledge
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-12-07
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0415353424
ISBN-13: 9780415353427

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 Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography addresses the central challenge posed by its autobiographical turn. Despite the fact that autobiography is frequently dismissed for its Western, masculine bias, David Huddart argues for its continued relevance as a central explanatory category in understanding postcolonial

Author: Michael Meyer
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: cultures, literatures, cross, postcolonial, colonial, amp, image, word
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2009-11-05
List price: $130.20
ISBN-10: 9042027436
ISBN-13: 9789042027435

Verbal imagery and visual images as well as the intricate relationships between verbal and visual representations have long shaped the imagination and the practice of intercultural relationships. The contributions to this volume take a fresh look at the ideology of form, especially the gendered and racial implications of the gaze and the voice in various media and intermedial transformations. Analyses of how culturally specific forms of visual and verbal expression are individually understood and manipulated complement reflections on the potential and limitations of representation. The juxtapo

Authors:Rosemary Chapman, University of Warwick, University
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: companion, linguistic, literary, literatures, francophone
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2001-05-29
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 0415198399
ISBN-13: 9780415198394

Francophone Literatures is a student-friendly guide to key literary texts of the French speaking world.

Authors:Shirley Lim, Amy Ling,
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: asian, amp, cultu, history, america, literatures, reading, american
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1992-10-19
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0877229368
ISBN-13: 9780877229360

With the recent proliferation of critically acclaimed literature by Asian American writers, this groundbreaking collection of essays provides a unique resource for students, scholars, and the general reading public. The homogeneity implied by the term "Asian American" is replaced in this volume with the rich diversity of highly disparate peoples. Languages, religions, races and cultural and national backgrounds. Examining a century of Asian American literature from the late 19th century up through the contemporary experimental drama of Ping Chong, the contributors address the work of writers w

Authors:Rosemary Chapman, University of Warwick, University
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: companion, linguistic, literary, literatures, francophone
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2001-05-18
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0415198402
ISBN-13: 9780415198400

Francophone Literatures is a student-friendly guide to key literary texts of the French speaking world.

Authors:Dieter Riemenschneider, Frank Schulze-Engler,
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Keywords: matatu, eighties, literatures, african
Number of Pages: 281
Published: 1993-01
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 9051835183
ISBN-13: 9789051835182

Author: Lahcen E. Ezzaher
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Keywords: colonial, post, criticism, comparative, literatures, cultures, discourse, orientalist, influence, cultural, studies, rhetorical, history, writing
Number of Pages: 147
Published: 2003-03
List price: $55.95
ISBN-10: 0820462098
ISBN-13: 9780820462097