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  • The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature

    Edited by Ato Quayson ...
    Postcolonial studies is attentive to cultural differences, marginalisation and exclusion. Such studies pay equal attention to the lives and conditions of various racial minorities in the West, as well as to regional, indigenous forms of representation around the world as being distinct from a dominant Western tradition. With the consolidation of the field in the past forty years, the need to ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Aesthetic Nervousness

    Disability and the Crisis of Representation

    by Ato Quayson ...
    Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal unease and moral panic invoked by the disabled is refracted within the structures of literature and literary discourse itself, a crisis he terms ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism

    Edited by Ato Quayson, Girish Daswani ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
    A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism offers a ground-breaking combined discussion of the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism. Newly commissioned essays by leading scholars provide interdisciplinary perspectives that link together the concepts in new and important ways.A wide-ranging collection which reviews the most significant developments and provides valuable insights into current ... Read more

    $231.95 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature

    Edited by Ato Quayson, Jini Kim Watson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum

    Edited by Ato Quayson, Ankhi Mukherjee ...
    George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Oxford Street, Accra

    City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism

    by Ato Quayson ...
    In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district. He traces the city's evolution from its settlement in the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. He combines his impressions of the sights, sounds, interactions, and distribution of space with broader dynamics, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel

    Edited by Ato Quayson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Reflecting the development of postcolonial literary studies into a significant and intellectually vibrant field, this Companion explores genres and theoretical movements such as magical realism, crime fiction, ecocriticism, and gender and sexuality. Written by ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

    by Ato Quayson ...
    This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric of tragedy. He draws from many key works – Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Medea, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations

    The Commodification of Illicit Flows

    Edited by Ato Quayson, Antonela Arhin ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption
    Although much literature on human trafficking focuses on sex trafficking, a great deal of human trafficking results from migrant workers, compelled - by economic deprivation in their home countries - to seek better life opportunities abroad, especially in agriculture, construction and domestic work. Such labour migration is sometimes legal and well managed, but sometimes not so – with migrant ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing

    Edited by Robert Clarke ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles, performances and forms, postcolonial travel writing recounts journeys undertaken through places, cultures, and communities that are simultaneously living within, through, and after ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • 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

  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how ... Read more

    $14.99 USD