Post-Colonial Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Global Literary Theory

   An Anthology

   Edited by Richard Lane

   Global Literary Theory: An Anthology comprises a selection of classic, must-read essays alongside contemporary and global extracts, providing an engaging and timely overview of literary theory. The volume is thoroughly introduced in the General Introduction and Section Introductions and each piece...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
2. Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English

   Idea, Nation, State

   By Cara Cilano

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English, this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past, convey the present, and project a future in terms that facilitate a sense of collective belonging. The novels discussed cover a range of historical movements and...

   Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. State Formation and Radical Democracy in India

   By Manali Desai

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   State Formation and Radical Democracy in India analyzes one of the most important cases of developmental change in the twentieth century, namely, Kerala in southern India and begs the question of whether insurgency among the marginalized poor can use formal representative democracy to create...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. 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
5. Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature

   Edited by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Alexandra Schultheis Moore

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literature? How have human rights concerns shaped the literary marketplace, and how can literature impact human rights concerns? Essays in this volume theorize...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. Archives of the Black Atlantic

   Reading Between Literature and History

   By Wendy W. Walters

   Series: Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies

   Many African diasporic novelists and poets allude to or cite archival documents in their writings, foregrounding the elements of archival research and data in their literary texts, and revising the material remnants of the archive. This book reads black historical novels and poetry in an...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
7. 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
8. 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
9. Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt

   Literature, culture, and empire

   By Deborah Starr

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

   Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt examines the link between cosmopolitanism in Egypt, from the nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century, and colonialism. While it has been widely noted that such a relationship exists, the nature and impact of this dynamic is often overlooked. Taking a...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
10. Rudyard Kipling

    Edited by Roger Lancelyn Green

    This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge