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  • What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say

    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological assumptions of its dominant formations. It emerges, however, from an investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a commitment to its basic premise: namely, that literature and culture are fundamental to the response to structures of colonial and imperial ... Read more

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  • Decolonizing Literature

    An Introduction

    by Anna Bernard ...
    Series series Decolonizing the Curriculum
    Recent efforts to diversify and decentre the literary canon taught at universities have been moderately successful. Yet this expansion of our reading lists is only the start of a broader decolonization of literary studies as a discipline; there is much left to be done. How can students and educators best participate in this urgent intellectual and political project?Anna Bernard argues that the ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Debating Orientalism

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book's impact and appraise its significance in contemporary cultural politics and philosophy. ... Read more

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    The Cultural Logic Of Globalization

    by Marwan Kraidy ...
    The intermingling of people and media from different cultures is a communication-based phenomenon known as hybridity. Drawing on original research from Lebanon to Mexico and analyzing the use of the term in cultural and postcolonial studies (as well as the popular and business media), Marwan Kraidy offers readers a history of the idea and a set of prescriptions for its future use.Kraidy analyzes ... Read more

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  • Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    Series series TransCanada
    The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost their immediacy. The contributors to Trans.Can.Lit address cultural policy, citizenship, white civility, and the celebrated status ... Read more

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  • Culture, Power, Place

    Explorations in Critical Anthropology

    Edited by Akhil Gupta, James Ferguson ...
    Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. In light of increasing mass migration and the transnational cultural flows ... Read more

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  • The New Global History

    by Bruce Mazlish ...
    From a distinguished author in the field, The New Global History is a critical inquiry into the historical process of globalization, which is seen as a distinctly twentieth century phenomenon with its roots in the age of expansion of the early modern world.Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, The New Global History offers a fresh, overarching view of the process of globalization that is always ... Read more

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  • The Postcolonial Contemporary

    Political Imaginaries for the Global Present

    This volume invokes the “postcolonial contemporary” in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the volume seeks to cut across this false alternative, and to think with postcolonial theory about ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies

    Edited by Graham Huggan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the latest scholarship in postcolonial studies, while also considering possible future developments in the field. Original chapters written by a worldwide team of contritbuors are organised into five cross-referenced sections, 'The Imperial Past', 'The Colonial Present', 'Theory and Practice', 'Across the Disciplines' ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Belonging

    Intersectional Contestations

    "This is an in-depth examination of a slippery and contradictory subject. Knowledge alone is not enough for this type of project. It takes breaking out of narrow conceptual cages and unsettling what we think of as stable meanings. The author brings all of this to life in often unforgettable ways."- Saskia Sassen, Professor, Columbia University**"National identities were once taken largely for ... Read more

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  • The Global South and Literature

    Edited by Russell West-Pavlov ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Concepts
    The 'Global South' has largely supplanted the 'Third World' in discussions of development studies, postcolonial studies, world literature and comparative literature respectively. The concept registers a new set of relationships between nations of the once colonized world as their connections to nations of the North diminish in significance. Such relationships register particularly clearly in ... Read more

    $27.09 USD