Under an Imperial Sun examines literary, linguistic, and cultural representations of Japan's colonial South (nanpô). Building on the most recent scholarship from Japan, Taiwan, and the West, it takes a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary, comparative approach that considers the vi…
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…
Die koloniale Populärkultur boomte im »Dritten Reich«. Dennoch gab es bisher kaum Forschung zu diesem Material. Mit dem Verlust der Kolonien im Ersten Weltkrieg begann in Deutschland eine postkoloniale Phase, die mit der späteren Dekolonisierung anderer Kolonialreiche kaum vergl…
"Effeminism charts the flows of colonial desire in the works of British writers in India. Working on the assumption that desire is intensely political, historically constituted, and materially determined, the book shows how the inscriptions of masculinity in the fictions of Flor…
This book attempts to chart the flows of colonial desire in the works of British writers in India. Arguing that the Indo-British colonial encounter is based on an ideological opposition between masculinity and effeminacy, rather than on a more conventional distinction between ma…
