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Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Series Editor: Caroline Rooney, Donna Landry, Alex Padamsee

Edited in collaboration with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the field. Volumes concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonized areas, and include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures.

Part of our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections, this series considers postcolonial literature alongside topics such as gender, race, ecology, religion, politics, and science. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics. Series editors: Donna Landry and Caroline Rooney

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Civility and Empire

Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921

By Anindyo Roy

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the...

Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism

Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut

Edited by Caroline Rooney, Rita Sakr

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This transnational collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces on the 1982 Siege of Beirut explores literary representations of the siege by a diverse set of writers alongside journalism and other media including film, music, and photography. The book investigates and promotes an...

Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
Literary Radicalism in India

Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence

By Priyamvada Gopal

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Literary Radicalism in India situates postcolonial Indian literature in relation to the hugely influential radical literary movements initiated by the Progressive Writers Association and the Indian People's Theatre Association. In so doing, it redresses a visible historical gap in studies of...

Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
The Postsecular Imagination

Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature

By Manav Ratti

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be...

Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa

A Postcolonial Outlook

Edited by Mounira Soliman, Walid El Hamamsy

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural issues in film, cartoons...

Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures

Literature, Cinema and Music

Edited by Karima Laachir, Saeed Talajooy

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music, the collection uses the concept of '...

Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres

Edited by Walter Goebel, Saskia Schabio

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of literary form and aesthetics, this...

Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
Writing Sri Lanka

Literature, Resistance & the Politics of Place

By Minoli Salgado

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Focusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced both the production and critical reception of texts, Salgado presents a detailed analysis of eight leading Sri Lankan writers - Michael Ondaatje, Romesh Gunasekera, Shyam Selvadurai, A. Sivanandan, Jean Arasanayagam, Carl Muller, James...

Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
Postcolonial Tourism

Literature, Culture, and Environment

By Anthony Carrigan

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in highly exoticized island states that are still grappling with the legacies of western colonialism, Carrigan contends that postcolonial writers not only...

Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

Edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Fiction by writers of Muslim background forms one of the most diverse, vibrant and high-profile corpora of work being produced today - from the trail-blazing writing of Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi, which challenged political and racial orthodoxies in the 1980s, to that of a new generation...

Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge