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  • Receptions of the Classics in the African Diaspora of the Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds

    Atlantis Otherwise

    by Elisa Rizo, Madeleine M. Henry, Cesar Augusto Baldi, Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves, Guilherme Gontijo Flores, Andrea Kouklanakis, John T. Maddox IV ...
    Series series Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
    Atlantis Otherwise expands the study of the African diaspora by focusing on postcolonial literary expressions from Latin America and Africa. The book studies the presence of classical references in texts written by writers (black and non-black) who are committed to the articulation of the fragmented history of the African experience from the Middle Passage to the present outside of Euro-centric ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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    by Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
    Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War". ... Read more

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  • Latin Alive

    The Survival of Latin in English and the Romance Languages

    by Joseph B. Solodow ...
    In Latin Alive, Joseph Solodow tells the story of how Latin developed into modern French, Spanish, and Italian, and deeply affected English as well. Offering a gripping narrative of language change, Solodow charts Latin's course from classical times to the modern era, with focus on the first millennium of the Common Era. Though the Romance languages evolved directly from Latin, Solodow shows how ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Postcolonial Ecologies

    Literatures of the Environment

    Edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, George B. Handley ...
    The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Clear Word and Third Sight

    Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing

    by Donald E. Pease, Catherine A. John ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition. This consciousness has served diasporic communities by creating ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature

    Edited by Antonio D. Tillis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora
    After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction to the literary worlds and perceptions of national culture and identity of authors from Spanish ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic

    by Anne W. Gulick ...
    The era of national liberation and decolonization may have come and gone, but postcolonialism remains a largely elusive ideal in the early twenty-first century. In Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic, Anne W. Gulick uncovers a dynamic literary history of African and Caribbean critical engagements with First World law. This transatlantic archive attests to the ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures

    by Cecile Accilien ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures analyzes novels and films that demonstrate how marriage affects Francophone African and Caribbean women in their respective societies. It argues that marriage serves as a catalyst for intense identity formation because it functions as a narrative intersection for a number of overlapping themes on gender and the body, class and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Storyworld Accord

    Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives

    by Erin James ...
    Series series Frontiers of Narrative
    “Storyworlds,” mental models of context and environment within which characters function, is a concept used to describe what happens in narrative. Narratologists agree that the concept of storyworlds best captures the ecology of narrative interpretation by allowing a fuller appreciation of the organization of both space and time, by recognizing reading as a process that encourages readers to ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Beyond the Postcolonial

    World Englishes Literature

    by Palgrave Macmillan ...
    With the backdrop of new global powers, this volume interrogates the state of writing in English. Strongly interdisciplinary, it challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of postcolonial literary theory. An insistence on fieldwork and linguistics makes this book scene-changing in its approach to understanding and reading emerging literature in English. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • A Natural History of Latin

    by Tore Janson ...
    Beginning in Rome around 600 BC, Latin became the language of the civilized world and remained so for more than two millennia. French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its progeny and it provides the international vocabulary of law and life science. No known language, including English - itself enriched by Latin words and phrases - has achieved such success and longevity. Tore Janson tells ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Interiors and Narrative

    The Spatial Poetics of Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, and Leopoldo Alas

    by Estela Vieira ...
    Interiors and Narrative shows how crucial interiors are for our understanding of the nature of narrative. A growing cultural fascination with interior dwelling so prevalent in the late nineteenth century parallels an intensification of the rhetorical function interior architecture plays in the development of fiction. The existential dimension of dwelling becomes so intimately tied to the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD