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
Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations of the Body
1st Edition
By Michelle Keown
June 02, 2009
This groundbreaking interdisciplinary study focuses on the representation of the body in the work of eight of Polynesia's most significant contemporary writers. Drawing on anthropology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, history and medicine, Postcolonial Pacific Writing develops an innovative ...
Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific: Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction
1st Edition
By Susan Y. Najita
May 22, 2008
In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political independence. In particular, she ...
Caribbean-English Passages: Intertexuality in a Postcolonial Tradition
1st Edition
By Tobias Doring
September 05, 2006
Tobias Döring uses Postcolonialism as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevance to, and modification by, the Caribbean experience. Caribbean-English Passages opens an ...
Islands in History and Representation
1st Edition
Edited
By Rod Edmond, VANESSA SMITH
September 05, 2006
This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continentals. This study considers how island dwellers conceived of themselves and their relation to proximate mainlands, and examines the fascination that ...
Women Writing the West Indies, 1804-1939: 'A Hot Place, Belonging To Us'
1st Edition
By EVELYN O'CALLAGHAN
September 05, 2006
This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole. It introduces a fascinating wealth of relatively unknown material and constitutes a timely interrogation of the supposed homogeneity of Caribbean discourse, ...
African Literature, Animism and Politics
1st Edition
By Caroline Rooney
September 01, 2006
This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of the African discourse of consciousness and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism. It will be of great interest to scholars in many fields including literary and critical theory, ...
Postcolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of Empire
1st Edition
By Terry Collits
September 01, 2006
Winner of the 2006 NSW Prize for Literary Scholarship. The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so disparately that it is tempting to talk of many different Conrads. One lasting impression however, is that his colonial novels, which record encounters between Europe and Europe’s ‘Other’, are highly ...
Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction
1st Edition
By Sue Kossew
September 01, 2006
Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a problematic relationship to place and belonging, relations with indigenous people and the way in which women's subjectivity ...
Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry: Making Style
1st Edition
By Denise deCaires Narain
May 07, 2004
Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are contextualized both within Caribbean cultural debates and postcolonial and feminist critical ...
Magical Realism in West African Fiction
1st Edition
By Brenda Cooper
May 07, 2004
This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers: Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben Okri of Nigeria and Kojo Laing of Ghana. Brenda Cooper explores the distinct elements of the genre ...
The Postcolonial Jane Austen
1st Edition
Edited
By You-Me Park, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
May 07, 2004
This volume offers a unique contribution to both postcolonial studies and Austen scholarship by: * examining the texts to illumine nineteenth century attitudes to colonialism and the expanding Empire* revealing a new range of interpretations of Austen's work, each shaped by the critic's particular ...