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
Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921
1st Edition
By Anindyo Roy
September 11, 2014
This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the ...
Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa
1st Edition
By James Graham
September 11, 2014
In this volume, Graham investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s to the present. This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses a wide range of writing against a backdrop of regional decolonization, including novels by ...
Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden
1st Edition
By Sharae Deckard
September 11, 2014
This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses paradise discourse in a wide range of writing from Mexico, Zanzibar, and Sri Lanka, including novels by authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera. Tracing dialectical ...
The Idea of the Antipodes: Place, People, and Voices
1st Edition
By Matthew Boyd Goldie
September 11, 2014
This study uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes—the places and people on the other side of the world—from ancient Greece to present-day literature and digital media. Taking into account maps, letters, book illustrations, travel writing, ...
Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Cultural Expression in Context
1st Edition
By Anastasia Valassopoulos
August 12, 2014
This book engages with contemporary Arab women writers from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. In spite of Edward Said’s groundbreaking reappraisal of the uneven relationship between the West and the Arab world in Orientalism, there has been little postcolonial criticism of Arab writing. ...
Decolonising Gender: Literature and a Poetics of the Real
1st Edition
By Caroline Rooney
July 17, 2014
Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature – from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare – Rooney explores the nature of the real, providing: a way out of some of the current deadlocks of feminist theory an anti-essentialist ...
The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay
1st Edition
By Rashmi Varma
July 17, 2014
This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and contemporary debates on urbanism through the filter of postcolonial fictions and the ...
Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature: Remitting the Text
1st Edition
By Kezia Page
June 19, 2014
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Page casts light on the role of citizenship, immigration, and transnational mobility in Caribbean migrant and diaspora fiction. Page's historical, socio-cultural study responds to the general trend in migration discourse that presents the Caribbean experience ...
English Writing and India, 1600-1920: Colonizing Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Pramod K. Nayar
May 16, 2014
This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian ...
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary
1st Edition
By Vijay Mishra
May 16, 2014
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the ‘old’ Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery, ...
Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography
1st Edition
By David Huddart
April 24, 2014
Cultural theory has often been criticized for covert Eurocentric and universalist tendencies. Its concepts and ideas are implicitly applicable to everyone, ironing over any individuality or cultural difference. Postcolonial theory has challenged these limitations of cultural theory, and ...
Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook
1st Edition
Edited
By Walid El Hamamsy, Mounira Soliman
March 19, 2014
This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural issues in film, cartoons...