"John McLeod's study is essential reading for those interested in British or postcolonial literature, or in theorizations of the city and metropolitan culture."--Jacket.
The Kharijites were a splinter group that broke away from the main forces of Islam during the formative medieval period, purportedly refusing arbitration and committing bloody outrages against their fellow Muslims. After a look at Kharijite origins, this book focuses on contempo…
"After a brief look at Kharijite origins and the traditional image of these early rebels, this book focuses on references to the Kharijites in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1990s. Jeffrey T. Kenney shows how the traditional image of the Kharijites was reawakened to address the pro…
After three decades of reign, Mao left China a structurally rigid and functionally inefficient economy. The imperative for systemic transformation was self-evident. By 2009, China's nominal GDP reached $4.9 trillion. Its 2010 foreign reserve is in excess of $2.4 trillion. China …
This book develops an innovative Irish-Scottish postcolonial approach by galvanizing Emmanuel Levinas' ethics with the socio-cultural category of the 'subaltern'. It sheds new light on contemporary Scottish and Irish fiction, exploring how these writings interact with the recent…
Arguing that neo-Victorian fiction enacts and celebrates cultural memory, this book uses memory discourse to position these novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary. It revises historical fiction's relationship to history and moves critical debates…
Presenting an array of key texts, this is the first reader to gather together critical reactions to the moving image in contemporary art. It includes seminal historical texts as well as newly commissioned essays from leading art historians, critics, artists, theorists and philos…
