Author: Benita Parry
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: postcolonial, literatures, critique, materialist, studies
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-06-17
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 041533599X
ISBN-13: 9780415335997

Parry offers the compelling argument that theoretical work must strive to join remembrance of the material past with a critique of the contemporary condition, remaining unreconciled to the past and unconsoled by the present.

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: Michelle Keow
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: postcolonial, research, literatures, routledge, representations, pacific, writing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-01-21
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0415299578
ISBN-13: 9780415299572

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 framework specific to the literatures and cultures of this region.

Authors:Daniel Carey, Lynn Festa,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: postcolonial, theory, colonialism, eighteenth, enlightenment, century
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0199229147
ISBN-13: 9780199229147

Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominion and avatar of liberation, as target and shield, as shadow and light. This volume brings together two arenas - eighteenth-century studies and postcolonial theory - in order to interrogate the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colon

Authors:You-Me Park, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: postcolonial, literatures, research, austen, jane, routledge
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-05-07
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415340624
ISBN-13: 9780415340625

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 context* exploring the ways in which the study of Austen’s novels raises fresh issues for post-colonial criticism. Bringing together work by highly-respected critics from four continents and a range of disciplines, this newly paperbacked volume allows sometimes surprising and alwa

Author: Itty Abraham
Publisher: Zed Books
Keywords: postcolonial, state, encounters, secrecy, science, indian, atomic, bomb, making
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 1998-11-15
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1856496309
ISBN-13: 9781856496308

In 1974 India exploded an atomic device. In May 1998 the new BJP Government exploded several more, encountering in the process domestic plaudits but international condemnation and a nuclear arms race in South Asia. This book is the first serious historical account of the development of nuclear power in India and of how the bomb came to be made. The author questions orthodox interpretations implying that it was a product of the Indo-Pakistani conflict. Instead, he suggests that the explosions had nothing to do with national security as conventionally understood. Instead he demonstrates the link

Author: Michelle Keown
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: postcolonial, literatures, oceania, oxford, studies, zealand, aotearoa, islands, writing, pacific, new
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-11-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0199276455
ISBN-13: 9780199276455

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. The first book of its kind, Pacific Islands Writing offers a broad-ranging introduction to the postcolonial literatures of the Pacific region. Drawing upon metaphors of oceanic voyaging, Michelle Keown takes the reader on a discursive journey through a variety of literary and cultural contexts in the Pacific, exploring the Indigenous literatures of Polynesia, Melan