Post-Colonial Studies Books

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1. The Routledge Concise History of World Literature

   By Theo D'Haen

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-49589-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. The Postcolonial Gramsci

   Edited by Neelam Srivastava, Baidik BHATTACHARYA

   The importance of Antonio Gramsci’s work for postcolonial studies can hardly be exaggerated, and in this volume, contributors attempt to situate Gramsci's work in the vast and complex oeuvre of postcolonial studies. Specifically, The Postcolonial Gramsci endeavors to reassess the...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-87481-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture: Celebrating Impurity, Disrupting Borders

   Edited by Ana Cristina Mendes

   In Salman Rushdie’s novels images are invested with the power to manipulate the plotline, to stipulate actions from the characters, to have sway over them, seduce them, or even lead them astray. Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture sheds light on this largely unremarked – even if central – dimension...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-88545-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Native American Writing

   Edited by A. Robert Lee

   As scholarly work on and around the literary output of Native Americans flourishes as never before, this new four-volume collection, co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to help users make sense of the subject’s vast literature and ...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-58895-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Generating the Hybrid City: Women Writers Create Urban Space

   By Isabel Carrera Suárez

   This book is a study of the representation of the global, postcolonial, hybrid city by women writers in English. Focusing specifically on London, Toronto and Singapore as examples of different positions in the postcolonial process, Suarez grounds her discussion on theories of the global city, urban...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-47814-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. The Postcolonial Secular: God and Country in South Asian Anglophone Fiction

   By Manav Ratti

   Through an intimate, literary conjunction of religion and politics, this book theorizes the emergence of a "post-secular" condition of the contemporary world, in which organized, conventional religion has failed politically. Nationalism has also had its failures after decolonization in the...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-48097-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Terrorism and Insurgency in Indian-English Literature: Writing Violence and Empire

   By Alex Tickell

   This book is an interdisciplinary study of representations of terrorism and political violence in the fiction and journalism of colonial India. Focusing on key historical episodes such as the Calcutta "Black Hole," the anti-thuggee campaigns of the 1830s, the 1857 rebellion, and anti-colonial...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-87715-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics: The Oriental Other Within

   Edited by Lisa Lau, Ana Cristina Mendes

   The groundbreaking concept of "Orientalism" refers to a discursive power structure devised "for dominating, restructuring and having authority over the Orient". Orientalism was Europe’s strategy of acknowledging the East as its alluring and exotic, yet dangerous and mysterious "Other."...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-59902-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Development to Globalization: A Third World Quarterly Reader

   Edited by Shahid Qadir, Mark Berger, Heloise Weber

   For over 30 years, Third World Quarterly has been the pre-eminent journal in the field of development studies. This Reader contains the most important and influential articles in the journal’s history and provides a complete overview of the field of development studies from the original debates to...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-78013-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Postcolonial Theory & International Relations: A Comprehensive Introduction

    Edited by Sanjay Seth

    Postcolonial theory has had the most impact in disciplines such as literature and, to some degree, history, and perhaps the least impact in the discipline of politics. However, there is growing interest in postcolonial theory within politics, and interest in especially high in the subfield of...

    March 2011 | 978-0-415-58288-9 | Paperback (Routledge)