Authors:Graham Huggan, Ian Law,
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Keywords: postcolonialism, across, disciplines, press, liverpool, europe, racism, university
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-02-28
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1846312191
ISBN-13: 9781846312199

This multidisciplinary edited collection turns the postcolonial critical gaze back on Europe itself, arguing that racism is alive and dangerously well and examining a variety of postcolonial criticism in order to understand a variety of racisms: those of false respect, reaction, and surveillance. Racism Postcolonialism Europe wisely suggests that all of these forms of postcolonial racism occur under the guise of representing the interests of the European people— which is a very different entity than the European population as a whole. This volume—which includes contributions from Griselda

Author: E. San Juan Jr.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: postcolonialism
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-05-24
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0847698610
ISBN-13: 9780847698615

Shaped in the image of the United States, the Philippines today is undergoing a profound crisis born of the aborted revolutions of the past and the dream of an egalitarian future. Seven million Filipinos constitute the labor diaspora blanketing global capitalism. Will Filipinos continue to be Americanized Asians, or evolve into a new nation in the turbulent Pacific Rim of Asia? This innovative analysis of the Philippine historical crisis is accompanied by a critique of a U.S. racial formation in which Filipinos constitute the largest Asian group. Literary and artistic expressions by Filipinos

Author: Barbara Bush
Publisher: Longman
Keywords: postcolonialism, imperialism
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-07-22
List price: $37.20
ISBN-10: 0582505836
ISBN-13: 9780582505834

The legacy of empires throughout history remain with us today. This is a clear overview of the scholarship, charting  the series of Empires that have formed today’s modern world.·        Takes into account recent historiographical developments in the study in imperialism and the approaches of other disciplines such as geography, literature and cultural studies·        Contains case studies (i.e. Ireland, China, Japan, Africa) that ensure the argument is rooted in reality.·        Not only does it incorporate traditional political approaches to the subject but also

Author: John McLeod
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: beginnings, postcolonialism, beginning
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2000-07-07
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0719052092
ISBN-13: 9780719052095

Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, expanding and challenging areas of literary and cultural studies today. Designed especially for those studying the topic for the first time, Beginning Postcolonialism introduces the major areas of concern in a clear, accessible, and organized fashion. It provides an overview of the emergence of postcolonialism as a discipline and closely examines many of its important critical writings.

Author: Ato Quayson
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: process, practice, theory, postcolonialism
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2000-01-11
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0745617131
ISBN-13: 9780745617138

This important new book provides a critical introduction to the rapidly expanding field of postcolonial studies.

Author: Ania Loomba
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: idiom, critical, new, postcolonialism, colonialism
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-10-19
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0415350646
ISBN-13: 9780415350648

Recommended on courses across academic disciplines and around the world, Ania Loomba’s Colonialism/Postcolonialism has for some years been accepted as the essential introduction to this vibrant and politically charged area of literary and cultural study. This remarkably comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies introduces and examines: * key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism * the relationship of colonial discourse to literature * challenges to colonialism, including anticolonial discourses

Author: Ania Loomba
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: idiom, critical, new, postcolonialism, colonialism
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 1998-04-21
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0415128080
ISBN-13: 9780415128087

This accessible introduction explores the historical dimensions and theoretical concepts associated with colonial and post-colonial studies. Ania Loomba examines the key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism, the relationship of colonial discourse to literature, challenges to colonialism, and recent developments in post-colonial theories and histories in the writings of contemporary theorists, including Edward Said, Abdul JanMohamed, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak. Loomba also looks at how sexuality is figured in the texts of colonialism, and how contemporary feminist ideas an