Post Colonial Discourse Books

New and Published Books

1. Cultural Studies of Transnationalism

   Edited by Handel Wright, Meaghan Morris

   This book asks what ‘transnationalism’ might mean for Cultural Studies as an intellectual project shaped in vastly differing circumstances across the world. With contributions from scholars with experience of cultural life and the work of education in various regions, countries and locales - from...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
2. Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire

   Edited by Robert Leckey, Kim Brooks

   Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire uses queer theory to examine the complex interactions of law, culture, and empire. Building on recent work on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches, it studies how activists and scholars engaged in queer theory...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
3. 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 December 6th 2010 by Routledge
4. Bhabha for Architects

   By Felipe Hernandez

   Series: Thinkers for Architects

   The work of Homi K. Bhabha has permeated into numerous publications which use postcolonial discourse as a means to analyze architectural practices in previously colonized contexts, particularly in Africa, Asia, the Middle-East, South-East Asia and, Latin America. Bhabha's use of the concept of...

   Published January 24th 2010 by Routledge
5. Moderns Abroad

   Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism

   By Mia Fuller

   Series: Architext

   This volume studies the architecture and urbanism of modern-era Italian colonialism (1869-1943) as it sought to build colonies in North and East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Mia Fuller follows, not only the design of the physical architecture, but also the development of colonial design...

   Published August 31st 2009 by Routledge
6. Narrating Post/Communism

   Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization

   By Natasa Kovacevic

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention - in history, political science and literature - on the fostering of new identities across Eastern European countries in the absence of the old...

   Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge
7. Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa

   By James Graham

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   In this volume, Graham investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s to the present. This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses a wide range of writing against a backdrop of regional decolonization, including novels by...

   Published March 31st 2009 by Routledge
8. The Diaspora Strikes Back

   Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning

   By Juan Flores

   Series: Cultural Spaces

   In The Diaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the...

   Published August 6th 2008 by Routledge
9. Colonial Modernities

   Building, Dwelling and Architecture in British India and Ceylon

   Edited by Peter Scriver, Vikramaditya Prakash

   Series: Architext

   A carefully crafted selection of essays from international experts, this book explores the effect of colonial architecture and space on the societies involved – both the colonizer and the colonized. Focusing on British India and Ceylon, the essays explore the discursive tensions between the...

   Published March 6th 2007 by Routledge
10. Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy

    Edited by Stephen Cairns

    Series: Architext

    To dwell in these globalizing times requires us to negotiate increasingly palpable flows - of capital, ideas, images, goods, technology, and people. Such flows seem to pressurize, breach and sometimes even disaggregate the places we always imagined to be distinctive and stable. This book is...

    Published November 26th 2003 by Routledge