The literature of Malaysia and Singapore, the multicultural epicentre of Asia, offers a rich body of source material for appreciating the intellectual heritage of colonial and postcolonial Southeast Asia. Focusing on themes of home and belonging, Eddie Tay illuminates many aspec…
What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in the English Renaissance? This innovative and wide-ranging study argues that writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect on the state of contemporary English politics, particularly their own lack of repre…
Long description: In Folge des Desasters von Annual 1921, der>>schmählichen<<Niederlage der Spanier im Kolonialkrieg in Marokko, entsteht in Spanien eine Welle an Erzähltexten, die die Geschehnisse im Rif rechtfertigen oder verurteilen sowie ihre kulturelle, soziale und politisc…
This book analyses the applicability of postcolonial theories and contemporary issues, and also revisits previously tackled cultural, social and literary phenomena. The contributions examine contemporary social, economic and cultural processes. The authors look back at older cul…
This book analyses the applicability of postcolonial theories and contemporary issues, and also revisits previously tackled cultural, social and literary phenomena. The contributions examine contemporary social, economic and cultural processes. The authors look back at older cul…
A new evaluation of New England's literature of dissent in works by early English settlers in America.
"In the first decades after the end of French rule, Francophone authors engaged in an exercise of rewriting narratives from the colonial literary canon. In The Author as Cannibal, Felisa Vergara Reynolds presents these textual revisions as figurative acts of cannibalism and exam…
Introduction: Infrastructure, resistance, literature -- Mapping humanitarianism: Flora Annie Steel and the contradictions of colonial capitalism -- Mapping segregation: literary geographies of South Africa -- Mapping frontiers: John Buchan and the topographies of imperial ideolo…
