Bøger i Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures serien

Explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. This work argues that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape.

Examines the aesthetic portrayal of tourism in postcolonial literatures. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in states, this title argues that postcolonial writers not only dramatize the industry's most exploitative operations but also provide blueprints toward sustainable tourism futures.

Explores the impact that the "African Writers Series" had on the development of African writing in English in the 1960's by examining the works of such authors as George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, Wilson Harris, and Derek Walcott. This book takes into account debates in the discipline of book history, publishing histories, and canon formation.

Postcolonialism is used as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevence to the Caribbean experience.

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, and Amitav Ghosh, this book investigates different aspects of postcolonial identity within the secular framework of the Anglophone novel.

A study that 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.

Revitalizing theoretical concepts associated with feminism, gender studies and cultural studies, this book explores how art history, popular culture, translation studies, psychoanalysis and news media offer productive ways to associate with Arab women's writing that work beyond a limiting socio-historical context.

Examining prose, poetry and drama by writers including Achebe, Naipaul, Coetzee, Walcott, Krog, Fugard, and versions of Shakespeare, this title pursues the often ambiguous paths of nostalgia as it has been represented within and beyond Europe.

This text provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves.

Focusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced, this book presents an analysis of eight leading Sri Lankan writers: Michael Ondaatje, Romesh Gunasekera, Shyam Selvadurai, A Sivanandan, Jean Arasanayagam, Carl Muller, James Goonewardene, and Punyakante Wijenaike. It interrogates the discourses of territoriality and boundary marking.

Investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s. By employing a range of critical perspectives - cultural materialist, feminist and ecocritical - this book offers fresh ways of thinking about the relationship between literature, politics and the environment in Southern Africa.

Analyzes authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera to make a materialist study of the relation between paradise myths and the ideologies and economies of colonialism and neo-imperialism in literature from Mexico, Zanzibar and Sri Lanka.

Focusing on the work of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the iconic 19th-century imperial spy and translator, this study explores the White Man's 'imperial fantasies', and the ways in which the many metropolitan discourses to which Burton contributed drew upon and reinforced an intimate connection between fantasy and power in the space of Empire.

Presents the two important fields of postcolonial studies and life writing.

Looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique. This study suggests that the prevalence of 'colonial' languages such as English and Portuguese in 'anticolonial' or 'postcolonial' African Literature is primarily an effect of the print network.

Exploring the work of key writers from across the globe, this work constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora.

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.

Provides a way out of various deadlocks of feminist theory. This book explores ideas of performativity in literature and language, and negotiates a path between feminist theory's common pitfalls of essentialism and constructivism. It argues that by rethinking our understanding of gender, we can equip ourselves to resist racism and totalitarianism.

This book focuses on the cultural politics of magical realism, as exemplified in the fiction of Syl Cheney-Coker, Ben Okri and Kojo Laing and contextualizes their fiction within current debate.

Focusing on the influence of post-structuralist theory on postcolonial theory and vice versa, this study suggests that autobiography constitutes a general philosophical resistance to universal concepts and theories. It relates the theory of autobiography to expressions of new universalisms that rethink and extend norms of experience and knowledge.

Presents a study that considers cultural representations of 'brown' people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the Abolition era onwards. This title explores the extent to which colonial ideologies may have been underpinned by what might be called subject-constituting statutes.

This study surveys 19th- and 20th-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole. It introduces a wealth of relatively unknown material and constitutes a timely interrogation of the supposed homogeneity of Caribbean discourse, especially with regard to "race" and gender.

This book analyses the ways in which contemporary women writers in the two 'settler' colonies of Australia and South Africa explore notions of self, identity and place in their fiction.

Extending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontents of the South Asian city. It investigates how South Asian literature and literature about South Asia attends to urban margins, regardless of whether the definition of margin is spatial, psychological, gendered, or sociopolitic