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  • Contested Masculinities

    Crises in Colonial Male Identity from Joseph Conrad to Satyajit Ray

    de Nalin Jayasena ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Exploring how English masculinity - that was so contingent on the relative health of the British imperial project - negotiated the decline and ultimate dissolution of the empire by the middle of the twentieth century, this book argues that by defining itself in relation to indigenous masculinity, English masculinity began to share a common idiom with its colonial other. The rhetoric of indigenous ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Revolution, War, and Protest in Sri Lanka

    From Armed Struggle to Nonviolent Resistance

    Edición de Nalin Jayasena ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Interrogating the divide between violent and nonviolent protest, this volume highlights the importance of strategically connecting seemingly unrelated historical events and political movements across Sri Lanka's North and South, spanning the period from 1971 to 2022, to offer fresh insights into intranational conflict.By bringing the different protest movements of insurgency and civil disobedience ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • Japan Through the Looking Glass

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  • What Would Gandhi Do?

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    de Michael Kirby ...
    Regarded as the Father of the Nation in India and globally as the most successful exponent of nonviolent civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi is known as a symbol of wisdom and compassion. Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby, himself a tireless advocate for non-discrimination and human rights, here shows the applicability of Gandhi's views on some of the world's most pressing current issues: ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation

    Community, Religion and Cultural Nationalism

    de Tanika Sarkar ...
    This book is a brilliant historicisation and scathing critique of many of the dominant concepts by which Indians generally, and north Indian Hindus more specifically, think and live today. Historians, sociologists, political scientists and serious readers who wish to understand how the immediate past has shaped Indias life will value this incisive work of a major historian. ... Leer más

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  • Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

    Migrant Metaphors

    de Elleke Boehmer ...
    Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is the leading critical overview of and historical introduction to colonial and postcolonial literary studies. Highly praised from the time of its first publication for its lucidity, breadth, and insight, the book has itself played a crucial part in founding and shaping this rapidly expanding field. The author, an internationally renowned postcolonial critic, ... Leer más

    $41.39 USD

  • Masks of Conquest

    Literary Study and British Rule in India

    de Gauri Viswanathan ...
    A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no ... Leer más

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  • For the Record

    On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India

    de Anjali Arondekar, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely, what kind of “archive” does such a recuperative hermeneutics produce? Rather than render sexuality’s relationship to the ... Leer más

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  • After the Victorians

    Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain

    Edición de Peter Mandler, Susan Pedersen ...
    Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as `civilisation', `domesticity', `conscience' and `improvement' to modern conditions of democracy, feminism and mass culture. Covering such figures as J.M. Keynes, E.M. Forster and Lord Reith of the BBC, these interdisciplinary ... Leer más

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  • Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination

    Nineteenth-Century Visions of a Greater Britain

    de Theodore Koditschek ...
    This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. Froude, James Mill, Rammohun Roy, T. B. Macaulay, E. A. Freeman, W. E. Gladstone, and J. R. Seeley among others, Theodore Koditschek sheds light on the ... Leer más

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  • Enslaved Daughters

    Colonialism, Law and Women’s Rights

    de Sudhir Chandra ...
    This is the second edition of a remarkable study of a young woman's defiant stand against Hindu orthodoxy and the colonial legal establishment in the late nineteenth century India. It revolves around a suit for 'restitution of conjugal rights' filed against Rukhmabai, who was married at age eleven and refused to go and live with her husband. This lucid and engaging account captures the dramatic ... Leer más

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