Noting that the ways of interpreting the Bible now practiced in the West are patriarchal and oppressive of those in other parts of the world, Dube offers an alternative interpretation that attends to and respects needs of women in the two-thirds world. In a provocative and insig…
Noting that the ways of interpreting the Bible now practiced in the West are patriarchal and oppressive of those in other parts of the world, Dube offers an alternative interpretation that attends to and respects the needs of women in the two-thirds world. In a provocative and i…
"Postcolonial studies has recently made significant inroads into biblical studies, giving rise to numerous conference papers, articles, essays and books. Postcolonial Biblical Criticism is the most in-depth introduction to this emerging field to date. It probes postcolonial bibl…
"One of the first Western studies of Indian theater to link the aesthetics and the politics of that theater, Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance combines in-depth archival research with close readings of dramatic texts performed at critical moments in history. Each chapter ampl…
Explores the relationship between nationalism, colonialism, and the politics of theater in colonial and postcolonial India.
The linguistic-literary coordinates of English, Creole, and Indonesian modernism: Joseph Conrad's Polish English; Jean Rhys's Creole English; Pramoedya Ananta Toer's "pre-Indonesian" Indonesian -- Opera, modernism, and modernity: reading counterpoint in Conrad's Malay trilogy an…
Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this devastating critique, mounted on beh…
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.
