The concise Oxford companion to English literature
Fusion of cultures?
by Stummer, Peter O., Balme, Christopher, (Christopher B.)
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These essays discuss trauma studies as refracted through literature, focusing on the many ways in which the terms 'cultural trauma' and 'personal trauma' intertwine in postcolonial fiction. In a catastrophic age such as the present, trauma itself may serve to provide linkage thr…
Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. This book combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, "daugh…
Introduction -- The Global Anglophone: Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali -- People of Color: M. K. Gandhi's Satyagraha -- The Global South: W. E. B. Du Bois's Brownies -- Conclusion. "Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone theorizes print inter…
"Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone theorizes print internationalism, which creates new terms within the worldwide hegemony of the English language to encourage alternate geographies and collectivities"--
"Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone theorizes print internationalism, which creates new terms within the worldwide hegemony of the English language to encourage alternate geographies and collectivities"--
"Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone theorizes print internationalism, which creates new terms within the worldwide hegemony of the English language to encourage alternate geographies and collectivities"--
Groundbreaking collection of specially commissioned essays in which the ethnic literatures of North America are added to the developing postcolonial canon.
Post-Colonial Literatures challenges the emerging consensus on post-colonial literatures. The contributors discuss case studies of specific authors, and the role of literary study within multicultural societies.