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
Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947
1st Edition
By Alex Tickell
November 08, 2013
In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key crisis moments in the history of British colonial rule such as the ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta, the ...
The Postcolonial Gramsci
1st Edition
Edited
By Neelam Srivastava, Baidik Bhattacharya
November 08, 2013
The importance of Antonio Gramsci’s work for postcolonial studies can hardly be exaggerated, and in this volume, contributors situate Gramsci's work in the vast and complex oeuvre of postcolonial studies. Specifically, this book endeavors to reassess the impact on postcolonial studies of the ...
Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence
1st Edition
By Priyamvada Gopal
February 13, 2013
Literary Radicalism in India situates postcolonial Indian literature in relation to the hugely influential radical literary movements initiated by the Progressive Writers Association and the Indian People's Theatre Association. In so doing, it redresses a visible historical gap in studies of ...
Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance & the Politics of Place
1st Edition
By Minoli Salgado
November 01, 2012
Focusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced both the production and critical reception of texts, Salgado presents a detailed analysis of eight leading Sri Lankan writers - Michael Ondaatje, Romesh Gunasekera, Shyam Selvadurai, A. Sivanandan, Jean Arasanayagam, Carl Muller, James ...
Postcolonial Tourism: Literature, Culture, and Environment
1st Edition
By Anthony Carrigan
September 05, 2012
This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in highly exoticized island states that are still grappling with the legacies of western colonialism, Carrigan contends that postcolonial writers not only ...
American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination
1st Edition
By Paul Lyons
July 11, 2012
This provocative analysis and critique of American representations of Oceania and Oceanians from the nineteenth century to the present, argues that imperial fantasies have glossed over a complex, violent history. It introduces the concept of ‘American Pacificism’, a theoretical framework that draws...
Publishing the Postcolonial: Anglophone West African and Caribbean Writing in the UK 1948-1968
1st Edition
By Gail Low
July 11, 2012
This book explores how writers such as Amos Tutuola, George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, VS Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, and Wole Soyinka came to be published in London in important educational series such as the Three Crown Series and African Writers Series. Low takes ...
Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire
1st Edition
By Ben Grant
April 10, 2012
By engaging closely with the work of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the iconic nineteenth-century imperial spy, explorer, anthropologist and translator, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton explores the White Man’s ‘imperial fantasies’, and the ways in which the many metropolitan ...
Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation and Memory
1st Edition
By Dennis Walder
March 29, 2012
This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread, yet often misunderstood, condition — nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national, historical, and personal boundaries. Walder analyses the writings of some of those entangled in the aftermath of ...
Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture
1st Edition
By Stefan Helgesson
August 16, 2011
Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone literature of Angola and Mozambique. Stefan Helgesson suggests that the prevalence of ‘colonial’ languages such as English and Portuguese...
Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation
1st Edition
Edited
By Sorcha Gunne, Zoe Brigley Thompson
May 16, 2011
The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the contributors aim to incorporate arguments about trauma...
Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation
1st Edition
By Bart Moore-Gilbert
July 10, 2009
Postcolonial Life-Writing is the first attempt to offer a sustained critique of this increasingly visible and influential field of cultural production. Bart Moore-Gilbert considers the relationship between postcolonial life-writing and its western analogues, identifying the key characteristics that...