Post-Colonial Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Travel Writing, Form, and Empire

   The Poetics and Politics of Mobility

   Edited by Julia Kuehn, Paul Smethurst

   Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing

   This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it considers the form, poetics, institutions and reception of travel writing in the history of empire and its aftermath....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Literature and Development in North Africa

   The Modernizing Mission

   By Perri Giovannucci

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   The book examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "developing" nations of the East. The practices of development have mostly led not to economic, social, and political progressivism in local...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Reconciliation and Pedagogy

   Edited by Pal Ahluwalia, Stephen Atkinson, Peter Bishop, Pam Christie, Robert Hattam, Julie Matthews

   Series: Postcolonial Politics

   Reconciliation is one of the most significant contemporary challenges in the world today. In this innovative new volume, educational academics and practitioners across a range of cultural and political contexts examine the links between reconciliation and critical pedagogy, putting forward the...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
4. Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton

   Power Play of Empire

   By Ben Grant

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   By engaging closely with the work of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the iconic nineteenth-century imperial spy, explorer, anthropologist and translator, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton explores the White Man’s ‘imperial fantasies’, and the ways in which the many metropolitan...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. Postcolonial Nostalgias

   Writing, Representation and Memory

   By Dennis Walder

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread, yet often misunderstood, condition — nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national, historical, and personal boundaries. Walder analyses the writings of some of those entangled in the aftermath of...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
6. Edward Said's Translocations

   Essays in Secular Criticism

   Edited by Tobias Doring, Mark Stein

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   Working with processes of translocation enabled Edward Said to point out interdependence and complementarity across geographical borders and disciplinary boundaries while recognizing cultural difference and the distinct historical experiences of colonizer and colonized. This book brings into focus...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
7. The City as Target

   Edited by Ryan Bishop, Gregory Clancey, John W Phillips

   Series: Postcolonial Politics

   Bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, The City as Target provides a sustained and critical response to the relationship between the concept of targeting (in its many forms) and notions of understanding, imagining and shaping the urban. Among the many spatial and graphic...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
8. Victorian Narrative Technologies in the Middle East

   By Cara Murray

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Victorian Narrative Technologies tells the story of how the British, who wanted nothing to do with the Suez Canal during the decades in which it was being internationally planned and invested, came to own it. It stands to reason that the nation that prided itself on its engineering prowess and had...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. Postcolonial Audiences

   Readers, Viewers and Reception

   Edited by Bethan Benwell, James Procter, Gemma Robinson

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while...

   Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
10. Globalizing Dissent

    Essays on Arundhati Roy

    Edited by Ranjan Ghosh, Antonia Navarro-Tejero

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    Arundhati Roy is not only an accomplished novelist, but equally gifted in unraveling the politics of globalization, the power and ideology of corporate culture, fundamentalism, terrorism, and other issues gripping today’s world. This volume – featuring prominent scholars from...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge