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  • Salman Rushdie

    Fictions of Postcolonial Modernity

    by Stephen Morton ...
    Series series New British Fiction
    This introduction places the fiction of Salman Rushdie in a clear historical and theoretical context. Morton explores Rushdie's biography, the histories that inform his major works and his relevance to contemporary culture. Including a timeline of key dates, this study offers an overview of the varied critical reception Rushdie's work has provoked ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Terror and the Postcolonial

    A Concise Companion

    Edited by Elleke Boehmer, Stephen Morton ...
    Series series Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
    Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture.A ground-breaking study addressing and theorizing the relationship between postcolonial studies, colonial history, and terrorism through a series of contemporary and historical case studies from various postcolonial contextsCritically analyzes the figuration ... Read more

    $43.00 USD

  • Literature, Migration and the 'War on Terror'

    Edited by Fiona Tolan, Stephen Morton, Anastasia Valassopoulos, Robert Spencer ...
    This is a major new collection of essays on literary and cultural representations of migration and terrorism, the cultural impact of 9/11, and the subsequent ‘war on terror’. The collection commences with analyses of the relationship between migration and terrorism, which has been the focus of much mainstream political and media debate since the attacks on America in 2001 and the London bombings ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

    by Stephen Morton ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak offers an overtly political challenge to the way we think about literature and culture. As she highlights the many legacies of colonialism, she re-defines the ethical horizons of contemporary critical thought. This volume focuses on her key theoretical concepts, intellectual context and critical reception, providing an accessible introduction to one of the most important ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Foucault in Iran

    Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment

    by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi ...
    Series series Muslim International
    Were the thirteen essays Michel Foucault wrote in 1978–1979 endorsing the Iranian Revolution an aberration of his earlier work or an inevitable pitfall of his stance on Enlightenment rationality, as critics have long alleged? Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi argues that the critics are wrong. He declares that Foucault recognized that Iranians were at a threshold and were considering if it were possible to ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Identity and Violence

    The Illusion of Destiny

    by Amartya Sen ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    “One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine GordimerIn this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision ... Read more

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  • Fundamentalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Malise Ruthven ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Malise Ruthven tackles the polemic and stereotypes surrounding this complex phenomenon - one that eludes sim today, a conclusion impossible to ignore since the events in New York on September 11 2001. But what does 'fundamentalism' really mean? Since it was coined by American Protestant evangelicals in the 1920s, the use of the term 'fundamentalist' has expanded to include a diverse range of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Islam after Liberalism

    Edited by Faisal Devji, Zaheer Kazmi ...
    Forged in the age of empire, the relationship between Islam and liberalism has taken on a sense of urgency today, when global conflicts are seen as pitting one against the other. More than describing a civilizational fault-line between the Muslim world and the West, however, this relationship also offers the potential for consensus and the possibility of moral and political engagement or ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora

    Secularism, Religion, Representations

    Edited by Claire Chambers, Caroline Herbert ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Literary, cinematic and media representations of the disputed category of the ‘South Asian Muslim’ have undergone substantial change in the last few decades and particularly since the events of September 11, 2001. Here we find the first book-length critical analysis of these representations of Muslims from South Asia and its diaspora in literature, the media, culture and cinema.Contributors ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • At the Limits of Justice

    Women of Colour on Terror

    Edited by Sherene Razack, Suvendrini Perera ...
    The fear and violence that followed the events of September 11, 2001 touched lives all around the world, even in places that few would immediately associate with the global war on terror. In At the Limits of Justice, twenty-nine contributors from six countries explore the proximity of terror in their own lives and in places ranging from Canada and the United States to Jamaica, Palestine/Israel, ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

  • The Spectral Wound

    Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971

    by Nayanika Mookherjee ...
    Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators as birangonas, ("brave women”). Nayanika Mookherjee demonstrates that while this celebration of birangonas as heroes keeps them in the public memory, they exist in the public consciousness as what Mookherjee calls a spectral wound. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Political Torture in Popular Culture

    The Role of Representations in the Post-9/11 Torture Debate

    by Alex Adams ...
    Series series Popular Culture and World Politics
    Political Torture in Popular Culture argues that the literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has been one of the defining dimensions of the torture debate that has taken place in the course of the post-9/11 global war on terrorism. The book argues that cultural representations provide a vital arena in which political meaning is generated, negotiated, and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD