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  • Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature

    Edited by David Attwell, Annalisa Pes, Susanna Zinato ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature provides a new and wide-ranging appraisal of shame in colonial and postcolonial literature in English. Bringing together young and established voices in postcolonial studies, these essays tackle shame and racism, shame and agency, shame and ethical recognition, the problem of shamelessness, the shame of willed forgetfulness. Linked by a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Bury Me at the Marketplace

    Es'kia Mphahlele and Company. Letters 1943-2006

    Edited by N. Chabani Manganyi, David Attwell ...
    When Chabani Manganyi published the first edition of selected letters twenty-five years ago as a companion volume to Exiles and Homecomings: A Biography of Es’kia Mphahlele, the idea of Mphahlele’s death was remote and poetic. The title, Bury Me at the Marketplace, suggested that immortality of a kind awaited Mphahlele, in the very coming and going of those who remember him and whose lives he ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee

    by Tim Mehigan, Maria Boletsi, Markus Winkler, Martin Woessner, Patrick Hayes, Robert B. Pippin, Robert Stockhammer, Simon During, Professor Christian Moser0, Alexander Honold1, Anton Leist2, Carrol Clarkson3, David Attwell4, Derek Attrige5, Elisa Aaltola6 ...
    Arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of today, J. M. Coetzee is a deeply intellectual writer. Yet while just about everyone who comes to Coetzee's writing is aware that the visible superstructure of his works is moved from below by a vast substructure of ideas, we are still far from grasping Coetzee's intellectual allegiances as a whole. This book sets out to examine these ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Debating Orientalism

    by Anna Bernard, David Attwell ...
    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

    $49.49 USD

  • The Cambridge History of South African Literature

    Edited by David Attwell, Derek Attridge ...
    South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored history of South African literature in all eleven official languages (and more minor ones) of the country, produced by a team of over forty ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing

    Face-to-face with Time

    by David Attwell ...
    An insightful literary biography of the Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee’s, illuminating the creation of his extraordinary novelsJ. M. Coetzee is one of the most renowned yet elusive authors of our time. Now, in J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, David Attwell explores the extraordinary creative process behind Coetzee's work, from Dusklands to The Childhood of Jesus. Drawing on Coetzee's ... Read more

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  • Approaches to Teaching Coetzee’s Disgrace and Other Works

    by David Attwell, Rita Barnard, Michael Bell, Louise Bethlehem, Carrol Clarkson, Stephen Clingman, Emily Davis, Gerald Gaylard, Johan Geertsema, Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn, Erik Grayson, Patrick Hayes, Kay Heath, Keith Leslie Johnson, Patricia Merivale, Shannon Payne, Robert Spencer, Andrew van der Vlies, Pieter Vermeulen, Wendy Woodward ...
    Series Book 130 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability, the silent or silenced other, sympathy, and forgiveness in an allusive and detached prose ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Athol Fugard

    His Plays, People and Politics

    by Alan Shelley ...
    A playwright whose work is appreciated on a global scale, Athol Fugard's plays have done more to document and provide a cultural commentary on Apartheid-era South Africa than any other writer in the last century.Using mostly migrant workers and township dwellers, and staging guerrilla-raid productions in black areas, Fugard frequently came into conflict with the government, forcing him to take his ... Read more

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  • Things Fall Apart

    A Novel

    by Chinua Achebe ...
    Series Book 1 - The African Trilogy
    **“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama“African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison"A magical writer—one of the greates of the twentieth century." —Margaret AtwoodNamed one of America's most-loved novels by PBS’s The ... Read more

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  • The Book of Paul

    The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating

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    Presenting the one and only Mr Paul Keating – at his straight-shooting, scumbag-calling, merciless best.Paul lets rip – on John Howard: “The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on.”On Peter Costello: “The thing about poor old Costello is he is all tip and no iceberg.”On John Hewson: “[His performance] is like being flogged with a warm ... Read more

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