Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
About the Book Series
Edited in collaboration with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the field. Volumes concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonized areas, and include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures.
Part of our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections, this series considers postcolonial literature alongside topics such as gender, race, ecology, religion, politics, and science. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics. Currently the series is managed by Bahriye Kemal, Donna Landry and Caroline Rooney
Verbal-Visual Configurations in Postcolonial Literature: Intermedial Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Birgit Neumann, Gabriele Rippl
December 13, 2021
Examining a range of contemporary Anglophone texts, this book opens up postcolonial and transcultural studies for discussions of visuality and vision. It argues that the preoccupation with visual practices in Anglophone literatures addresses the power of images, vision and visual aesthetics to ...
Writing Cyprus: Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space
1st Edition
By Bahriye Kemal
December 13, 2021
Bahriye Kemal's ground-breaking new work serves as the first study of the literatures of Cyprus from a postcolonial and partition perspective. Her book explores Anglophone, Hellenophone and Turkophone writings from the 1920s to the present.Drawing on Yi-Fu Tuan’s humanistic geography and Henri ...
A Century of Encounters: Writing the Other in Arab North Africa
1st Edition
By Tanja Stampfl
June 30, 2021
A Century of Encounters analyzes Arab, American, and European literary depictions of self and other as they interact with each other in Arab North Africa throughout the twentieth century and introduces the trope of the encounter as a lens through which to read contemporary world literature ...
Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public
1st Edition
By May Hawas
June 30, 2021
Politicising World Literature: Egypt, Between Pedagogy and the Public engages with postcolonial and world literature approaches to examine the worldly imaginary of the novel genre and assert the political imperative to teaching world literature. How does canonising world literature relate to ...
The Body, Desire and Storytelling in Novels by J. M. Coetzee
1st Edition
By Olfa Belgacem
June 30, 2021
Asserting that Coetzee’s representation of the body as subject to dismemberment counters the colonial representation of the other’s body as exotic and erotically-charged, this study inspects the ambivalence pertaining to Coetzee’s embodied representation of the other and reveals the risks that come...
Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women's Writing
1st Edition
By Anne Brewster, Sue Kossew
March 31, 2021
This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on ...
Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter
1st Edition
Edited
By Michelle Keown, Andrew Taylor, Mandy Treagus
September 30, 2020
This interdisciplinary collection explores the confluence of American and British (neo)imperalism in the Pacific, as represented in various forms of Pacific discourse including literature, ethnography, film, painting, autobiography, journalism, and environmental discourse. It investigates the ...
Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels
1st Edition
By Marijke Denger
September 30, 2020
Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels focuses on four highly acclaimed publications in order to argue for a new understanding of community and its ethical framework in recent literary texts. Traditionally, community has been understood to ...
Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique: Critical Engagements with Benita Parry
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharae Deckard, Rashmi Varma
September 30, 2020
Using the aesthetic and political concerns of Parry’s oeuvre as a touchstone, this book explores new directions for postcolonial studies, Marxist literary criticism, and world literature in the contemporary moment, seeking to re-imagine the field, and alongside it, new possibilities for left ...
Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations: Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Palestine
1st Edition
By Lindsey Moore
September 30, 2020
Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations significantly enhances the interface between postcolonial literary studies and the hitherto under-studied Arab world. Lindsey Moore brings together canonical and less familiar Arab novels and memoirs from the last half century to consider colonial continuities ...
Popular Postcolonialisms: Discourses of Empire and Popular Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Nadia Atia, Kate Houlden
September 30, 2020
Drawing together the insights of postcolonial scholarship and cultural studies, Popular Postcolonialisms questions the place of ‘the popular’ in the postcolonial paradigm. Multidisciplinary in focus, this collection explores the extent to which popular forms are infused with colonial logics, and ...
Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities
1st Edition
Edited
By Binita Mehta, Pia Mukherji
September 30, 2020
This collection examines new comic-book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinée texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. The individual chapters are framed within a larger enquiry that considers definitive aspects of the postcolonial ...