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  • The Postcolonial Bildungsroman

    Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions

    Edited by Arnab Dutta Roy, Paul Ugor ...
    Offering a fresh comparative lens, this volume demonstrates how postcolonial writers have transformed the Bildungsroman from an eighteenth-century European genre meant to explore local themes around childhood development into one of the most cosmopolitan literary mediums for communicating overlapping concerns about global modernity. Chapters examine identity, sexuality, human rights, the climate ... Read more

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  • Novel Materials and Technologies for Energy and Environment Applications, Volume 1

    Select Proceedings of NMTE2A 2024

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Novel Materials and Technologies for Energy and Environment Applications (NMTE2A 2024). It covers the latest research outcomes and discusses probable solutions for global energy and environmental challenges using advanced materials and the way forward. Various topics covered in this book are computational materials, ... Read more

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  • The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place

    Series series Frontiers of Narrative
    In recent decades authors from across the world have adopted and adapted the bildungsroman literary genre to reflect on coming of age in postcolonial spaces and places. The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place emphasizes matters of space, place, and environment—concepts intrinsically linked to the bildungsroman’s processes of meaning-making and critique.From Latin America to South ... Read more

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  • Comparison

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  • Transnational Literature

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    Transnational Literature: The Basics provides an indispensable overview of this important new field of study and the literature it explores. It concisely describes the various ways in which literature can be understood as being "transnational," explains why scholars in literary studies have become so interested in the topic, and discusses the economic, political, social, and cultural forces that ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature

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    The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature. Covering the main theoretical approaches and key literary genres of the area, this volume includes ... Read more

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  • Global/Local

    Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary

    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization—the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production. Mapping a "new world space" that is simultaneously more globalized and localized than before, these essays ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel

    Edited by Ato Quayson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
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