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  • The Fiction of Chinua Achebe

    by Dr Jago Morrison ...
    Series series Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
    Since the emergence of Things Fall Apart in 1958, Chinua Achebe has come to be regarded by many as the 'Godfather' of modern African writing. Over 150 full length studies of his work have been published, together with many hundreds of scholarly articles.This Reader's Guide enables students to navigate the rich and bewildering field of Achebe criticism, setting out the key areas of critical debate, ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Women's Fiction and Post-9/11 Contexts

    by Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Emily Horton, Kristine Miller, Jago Morrison, Ana-Karina Schneider, Corina Selejan, Karin Sellberg, Heather Yeung, Noraini Md Yusof, Roberta Garrett ...
    9/11 is not simple a date on the calendar but marks a distinct historical threshold, ushering in the war on terror, various states of emergency, a supposed “clash of civilizations,” and the putative legitimation of counter-democratic procedures ranging from extraordinary renditions to enhanced interrogation. Perhaps no date, since Virginia Woolf declared that “on or about December 1910 human ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Chinua Achebe

    by Jago Morrison ...
    Series series Contemporary World Writers
    Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa’s foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and political thinker.With new, historically contextualised readings of all of his major works, this is the first study to view Achebe’s oeuvre in its entirety, from Things Fall Apart and the early novels, through ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Contemporary Fiction

    by Jago Morrison ...
    This is the ideal guide for those studying contemporary fiction for the first time. The last twenty-five years have seen an explosion of new developments in the English language novel. Because of its enormous diversity, however, the field of contemporary fiction studies can appear complex and confusing. Jago Morrison's Contemporary Fiction provides a much-needed accessible introduction to the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by David Whittaker, Mpalive-Hangson Msiska ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement of cross-cultural encounters.This guide to Chinua Achebe’s compelling novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Things ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Identity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet 'identity' is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different scientific disciplines. To many its meaning seems self-evident, since its various uses share common ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Literary Theory: A Complete Introduction

    by Sara Upstone ...
    Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the biographical or historical contexts of the work, but also about the different approaches that literary theory offers. By making use of these, they create new interpretations of the text that would not otherwise be possible. In your own reading and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture

    A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies

    Edited by Rosemarie Buikema, Liedeke Plate, Kathrin Thiele ...
    Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture, 2nd edition is a comprehensive gender studies textbook with an international focus and relevance across a broad range of academic disciplines. Covering an array of topics, theories and approaches to gender studies, it introduces students to the study of gender through geographically diverse case studies on different historical and contemporary figures. The ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Outside in the Teaching Machine

    by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak’s most engaging essays on works of literature such as Salman Rushdie's controversial Satanic Verses, and twentieth century thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and Karl Marx. Spivak relentlessly ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Religion: The Basics

    by Malory Nye ...
    Series series The Basics
    From the local to the global level, religion is – more than ever – an important and hotly debated part of modern life in the twenty-first century.From silver rings to ringtones and from clubs to headscarves, we often find the cultural role and discussion of religion in unexpected ways.Now in its second edition, Religion: The Basics remains the best introduction to religion and contemporary culture ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Death of a Discipline

    by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Feminist Postcolonial Theory

    A Reader

    Edited by Reina Lewis, Sara Mills ...
    Feminism and postcolonialism are allies, and the impressive selection of writings brought together in this volume demonstrate how fruitful that alliance can be. Reina Lewis and Sara Mills have assembled a brilliant selection of thinkers, organizing them into six categories: "Gendering Colonialism and Postcolonialism/Radicalizing Feminism," "Rethink ... Read more

    $79.99 USD