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  • The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought

    by Michael R. Griffiths ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought promises to transform a decades old debate in literary studies about the relation between structure and agency, form and intention by giving a detailed account—previously unstudied—of the way colonized writers have responded to, learned from, and critiqued the death of the author postulate declared by Roland Barthes in 1967. The book is a cultural ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature

    by Belinda Wheeler, Michael R. Griffiths, Nichola Jose, Oliver Haag, Paula Anca Farca, Stuart Cooke, Theodore Sheckels, Andrew King, Danica Cerce, Jeanine Leane0, Jennifer Jones1, Katrin Althans2, Martina Horakova3, Maryrose Casey4 ...
    Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention. Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary Australian Aboriginals risen sharply, but scholars and publishers have also recently begun recovering earlier published and unpublished Indigenous works. Writing by Australian Aboriginals ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Unsettled Voices

    Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era

    Edited by Tanja Dreher, Michael R. Griffiths, Timothy Laurie ...
    From resurgent racisms to longstanding Islamophobia, from settler colonial refusals of First Nations voices to border politics and migration debates, ‘free speech’ has been weaponised to target racialized communities and bolster authoritarian rule. Unsettled Voices identifies the severe limitations and the violent consequences of ‘free speech debates’ typical of contemporary cultural politics, and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture

    by Michael R. Griffiths ...
    From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa to the United Nations Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, many worthwhile processes of public memory have been enacted on the national and international levels. But how do these extant practices of memory function to precipitate justice and recompense? Are there moments when such techniques, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Social Work of Narrative

    Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary

    by Gareth Griffiths, Philip Mead, Joseph R. Slaughter, Chantal Zabus, Mike Hill, Kieran Dolin, David Trigger, Richard Martin0, Nicholas Jose1, Asha Varadharajan2, Gillian Whitlock3, Russell West-Pavlov4, Ned Curthoys5, Golnar Nabizadeh6, Helen Gilbert7, Ethan Blue8, Jane Lydon9, Sukhmani Khorana0, Michael R. Griffiths1 ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in World Literature
    This book addresses the ways in which a range of representational forms have influenced and helped implement the project of human rights across the world, and seeks to show how public discourses on law and politics grow out of and are influenced by the imaginative representations of human rights. It draws on a multi-disciplinary approach, using historical, literary, anthropological, visual arts, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature

    Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature

    by Herb Wyile ...
    Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. By examining their treatment of work, culture, and history, author Herb Wyile highlights how these writers resist the image of Atlantic Canadians ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Telling Stories

    Indigenous history and memory in Australia and New Zealand

    by Bain Attwood, Fiona Magowan ...
    Recent decades have seen a tremendous upsurge of interest among the indigenous peoples of Australia and New Zealand in their history. Life stories, land claims, genealogy, song, dance and painting have all made new contributions to the recovery and representation of the past.Telling Stories looks at the place of life stories and of memory in history: who tells life stories, the purpose for which ... Read more

    $13.79 USD

  • Space, Place, and Sex

    Geographies of Sexualities

    by Robyn Longhurst, Lynda Johnston ...
    Series series Why of Where
    This accessible and engaging book explores the ways that "space, place, and sex" are inextricably linked from the micro to the macro level, from the individual body to the globe. Drawing on queer, feminist, gender, social, and cultural studies, Lynda Johnston and Robyn Longhurst highlight the complex nature of sex and sexuality and how they are connected to both virtual and physical spaces and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Matter of Images

    Essays on Representations

    by Richard Dyer ...
    Now published in a revised second edition, The Matter of Images searches through the resonances of the term ‘representation’, analysing images in terms of why they matter, what they are made of, and the material realities they refer to. Richard Dyer’s analyses consider representations of ‘out’ groups and traditionally dominant groups alike, and encompass the eclectic texts of contemporary culture, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Detecting Canada

    Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film

    Edited by Jeannette Sloniowski, Marilyn Rose ...
    Series Book 16 - Film and Media Studies
    The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka.Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels. The ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Subcultures

    Cultural Histories and Social Practice

    by Ken Gelder ...
    This book presents a cultural history of subcultures, covering a remarkable range of subcultural forms and practices. It begins with London’s ‘Elizabethan underworld’, taking the rogue and vagabond as subcultural prototypes: the basis for Marx’s later view of subcultures as the lumpenproletariat, and Henry Mayhew’s view of subcultures as ‘those that will not work’. Subcultures are always in some ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Rattling Spears

    A History of Indigenous Australian Art

    by Ian McLean ...
    Large, bold, and colorful, indigenous Australian art—sometimes known as Aboriginal art—has made an indelible impression on the contemporary art scene. But it is controversial, dividing the artists, purveyors, and collectors from those who smell a scam. Whether the artists are victims or victors, there is no denying the impact of their work in the media, on art collectors and the art world at large ... Read more

    $45.09 USD