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Book Synopsis Postcolonial Environments by : U. Mukherjee
Download or read book Postcolonial Environments written by U. Mukherjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Environments examines the relationship between contemporary environmental crises and culture by offering a series of provocative readings of key Indian novels in English, making an original and important contribution to the emerging theories of 'green postcolonialism'.
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Download or read book Contemporary Postcolonial Literature in English written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Postcolonial Yearning written by A. Sen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglophone postcolonial studies has been characterized by its secular nature. Yet as the first generation of scholars grapples with mortality, a yearning for spiritual meaning is emerging in many texts. This study synthesizes the sacred language used in these texts with critical theory in order to create a holistic frame for interpretive analysis.
Book Synopsis Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature by : Blanka Grzegorczyk
Download or read book Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature written by Blanka Grzegorczyk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how contemporary British children’s books engage with some of the major cultural debates of recent years, and how they resonate with the current preoccupations and tastes of the white mainstream British reading public. A central assumption of this volume is that Britain’s imperial past continues to play a key role in its representations of race, identity, and history. The insistent inclusion of questions relating to colonialism and power structures in recent children’s novels exposes the complexities and contradictions surrounding the fictional treatment of race relations and ethnicity. Postcolonial children’s literature in Britain has been inherently ambivalent since its cautious beginnings: it is both transgressive and authorizing, both undercutting and excluding. Grzegorczyk considers the ways in which children’s fictions have worked with and against particular ideologies of race. The texts analyzed in this collection portray ethnic minorities as complex, hybrid products of colonialism, global migrations, and the ideology of multiculturalism. By examining the ideological content of these novels, Grzegorczyk demonstrates the centrality of the colonial past to contemporary British writing for the young.
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction by :
Download or read book Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts of 'youth' and the 'postcolonial' both inhabit a liminal locus where new ways of being in the world are rehearsed and struggle for recognition against the impositions of dominant power structures. Departing from this premise, the present volume focuses on the experience of postcolonial youngsters in contemporary Britain as rendered in fiction, thus envisioning the postcolonial as a site of fruitful and potentially transformative friction between different identitary variables or sociocultural interpellations. In so doing, this volume provides varied evidence of the ability of literature—and of the short story genre, in particular—to represent and swiftly respond to a rapidly changing world as well as to the new socio-cultural realities and conflicts affecting our current global order and the generations to come. Contributors are: Isabel M. Andrés-Cuevas, Isabel Carrera-Suárez, Claire Chambers, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Bettina Jansen, Indrani Karmakar, Carmen Lara-Rallo, Laura María Lojo-Rodríguez, Noemí Pereira-Ares, Gérald Préher, Susanne Reichl, Carla Rodríguez-González, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Karima Thomas and Laura Torres-Zúñiga.
Book Synopsis Post-Colonial Literatures in English by : Dennis Walder
Download or read book Post-Colonial Literatures in English written by Dennis Walder and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1998-06-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and accessible introduction to post-colonial literatures in English, Dennis Walder guides the reader through the historical, linguistic, and theoretical issues that inform post-colonial literary study.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies by : Neil Lazarus
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies written by Neil Lazarus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a lucid introduction to postcolonial studies, one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Postcolonial Theory by : Padmini Mongia
Download or read book Contemporary Postcolonial Theory written by Padmini Mongia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a crisis in contemporary postcolonial theory: while an enormous body of challenging research has been produced under its auspices, severely critical questions about the validity and usefulness of this theory have also been raised. This Reader is positioned at the juncture where it can address these contestations. It makes available some of the 'classics' of the field; engages with the issues raised by contemporary practitioners; but also offers several of the arguments that strongly critique postcolonial theory. Although postcolonial theory purports to be inter-disciplinary and frequently anti-foundationalist, traces of disciplinary formations and linearity have continued to haunt its articulations. This Reader, on the other hand, offers a uniquely inter-disciplinary mapping. It is concerned with three main areas: definitional problems and contests including the current challenges to postcolonial theory; the 'disciplining of knowledge', where the multiple resonances of the word 'disciplining' are all engaged; and the location of practice where the relations between intellectual practice and historical conditions are explored. Finally, since the guiding principle of this Reader is simultaneous attention to the enabling and constraining mechanisms of historical realities and institutional practices, the commentary problematizes the writing of histories, the formations of canons, and indeed the production of Readers.
Book Synopsis Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel by : Justyna Poray-Wybranowska
Download or read book Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel written by Justyna Poray-Wybranowska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel responds to the critical need for transdisciplinary research on the relationship between colonialism and catastrophe. It represents the first sustained analysis of the connection between colonial legacy and present-day ecological catastrophe in postcolonial fiction. Analyzing contemporary South Asian and South Pacific novels that grapple with climate change and catastrophe, environmental exploitation and instability, and human-nonhuman relationships in degraded environments, it offers a much-needed corrective to dominant narratives about climate, crisis, and the everyday. Highlighting the contributions of literary fiction from the postcolonial South to the growing field of the environmental humanities, this book reconsiders the novel’s relationship with climate change and the contemporary environmental imaginary. Counter to dominant current theoretical discourses, it demonstrates that the novel form is ideally suited to literary and imaginative engagements with climate change and ecological catastrophe. The six case studies it examines connect contemporary ecological vulnerability to colonial legacies, reveal the critical role animals and the environment play in literary imaginations of post-catastrophe recovery, and together constellate a decolonial perspective on ecological catastrophe in the era of climate change. Drawing on the work of Indigenous authors and scholars who write about and against the Anthropocene, this book displaces conventional ways of thinking about the relationship between the mundane and the catastrophic and promotes greater dialogue between the largely siloed fields of postcolonial, Indigenous, and disaster studies.
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Poetry in English by : Rajeev S. Patke
Download or read book Postcolonial Poetry in English written by Rajeev S. Patke and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. Postcolonial Poetry in English provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of English poetry in all the regions that were once part of the British Empire. The idea of postcolonial poetry is held together by three factors: the global community constituted by English; the creative possibilities accessible through English; and patterns of literary development common to regions with a history of recent decolonization. In showing how diverse poetic traditions in English evolved from dependency to varying degrees of cultural self-confidence, the book answers two broad questions: how is postcolonial studies relevant to the interpretation of poetry, and how does poetry contribute to our idea of postcolonial writing? The book is divided into three parts: the first works out a method of analysis based on recent publications of outstanding interest; the second narrates the development of poetic traditions in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, and the settler colonies of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand; the third analyses key motifs, such as the struggle for minority self-representation; the cultural politics of gender, modernism, and postmodernity; and the experience of migration and self-exile in contemporary Anglophone societies. Postcolonial Poetry in English provides a succinct and wide-ranging introduction to some of the most exciting poetic writing of the twentieth century. It is ideally suited for readers interested in world writing in English, contemporary literature, postcolonial writing, cultural studies, and postmodern culture.
Book Synopsis Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature by : Gina Wisker
Download or read book Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature written by Gina Wisker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature provides an overview of the main themes, issues and critical perspectives that have had the greatest effect on postcolonial literatures. Discussing historical, cultural and contextual background, it contains selected work of some of the major writers from this period.
Book Synopsis Contemporary African Literature in English by : M. Krishnan
Download or read book Contemporary African Literature in English written by M. Krishnan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani.
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Literature by : Pramod K. Nayar
Download or read book Postcolonial Literature written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies by : Graham MacPhee
Download or read book Postwar British Literature and Postcolonial Studies written by Graham MacPhee and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the legacy of imperialism and decolonisation, globalisation and national identityGraham MacPhee explains how postwar writers blended the experimentalism of prewar modernism with other cultural traditions to represent both the pain and the pleasures of multiculturalism. He discusses a wide range of writers, from Auden, Orwell, T.S. Eliot and Larkin to Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tony Harrison, Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan.Key Features* Explores concepts and critical terms such as 'British national literature', 'new ethnicities', 'migrancy' and 'hybridity'* Case studies of postwar texts include: Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, Linton Kwesi Johnson's Dread Beat an' Blood, Tony Harrison's V, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Leila Aboulela's Minaret and Ian McEwan's Saturday
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Studies and the Literary by : E. Sorensen
Download or read book Postcolonial Studies and the Literary written by E. Sorensen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics have argued that the field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic due to its institutionalization in recent years. This book identifies some limits of postcolonial studies and suggests ways of coming to terms with this issue via a renewed engagement with the literary dimension in the postcolonial text.
Book Synopsis The Postcolonial Short Story by : Maggie Awadalla
Download or read book The Postcolonial Short Story written by Maggie Awadalla and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book puts the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies and questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing on short fiction between 1975 and today – the period in which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies – it argues for a sophisticated critique exemplified by the ambiguity of the form.
Book Synopsis Post-colonial Theory and English Literature by : Peter Childs
Download or read book Post-colonial Theory and English Literature written by Peter Childs and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes critical essays on William Shakespeare's The Tempest; Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre; Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness; Rudyard Kipling's Kim; James Joyce's Ulysses; E.M. Forster's A passage to India; and, Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses.
