Post-Colonial Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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 December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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 December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Postcolonial Theory and International Relations

   A Critical Introduction

   Edited by Sanjay Seth

   Series: Interventions

   What can postcolonialism tell us about international relations? What can international relations tell us about postcolonialism? In recent years, postcolonial perspectives and insights have challenged our conventional understanding of international politics. Postcolonial Theory and International...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. Paul Gilroy

   By Paul Williams

   Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

   Paul Gilroy has been a controversial force at the forefront of debates around race, nation, and diaspora. Working across a broad range of disciplines, Gilroy has argued that racial identities are historically constructed, formed by colonization, slavery, nationalist philosophies, and consumer...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Orientalism Revisited

   Art, Land and Voyage

   Edited by Ian Netton

   Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East

   The publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse. Since then, Orientalism has remained highly polemical and has become a widely employed epistemological tool. Three decades on, this volume sets out to survey, analyse and revisit the state of the...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. Frantz Fanon

   By Pramod Nayar

   Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

   Frantz Fanon has established a position as a leading anticolonial thinker, through key texts such as Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth. He has influenced the work of thinkers from Edward Said and Homi Bhabha to Paul Gilroy, but his complex work is often misinterpreted as an...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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 November 13th 2012 by Routledge