The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political speeches all depicting a world consumed by vampires, zombies, meteors, aliens from outer space, disease, crazed terrorist…
During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around the world, including Britain's. As Nicole Rizzuto shows, the writings of Ukrainian-born Joseph Conrad, Anglo-Irish Rebecca West, Jama…
This work provides an overview of the emergence of postcolonialism as a discipline and examines its important critical writings. In particular, it demonstrates how many of the ideas and concepts can be applied when reading texts.
"A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today. Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revol…
El cautiverio en la literatura del Nuevo Mundo
by Mata Indurá́in, Carlos, Insúa, Mariela, Congreso Internacional "¡Ay Mísero de Mí! El Cautiverio en la Literatura del Nuevo Mundo : de las Crónicas de Indias a la Época Moderna", Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Donoso Pareja, Miguel, Universidad Católica de Chile, GRISO (Research group)
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