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Intimate Horizons by Bill Ashcroft 9781921511790
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921511790Author Bill AshcroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Garratt PublishingPublisher... -
Post-Colonial Transformation by Bill Ashcroft
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69In his new book, Bill Ashcroft gives us a revolutionary view of the ways in which post-colonial societies have responded to colonial control.The most comprehensive analysis of major features of... -
Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts Bill Ashcroft 9781032805917
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial... -
Caliban's Voice: The Transformation of English in Post-Colonial Literatures by Bill Ashcroft
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69In Shakespeare's Tempest, Caliban says to Miranda and Prospero: "...you taught me language, and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. "With this statement, he gives voice to an issue that lies at... -
Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures Bill Ashcroft (University of New South Wales, Australia) 9781138187801
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Postcolonial Studies is more often found looking back at the past, but in this brand new book, Bill Ashcroft looks to the future and the irrepressible demands of utopia. The concept of utopia -... -
The Postcolonial Studies Reader Bill Ashcroft (University of New South Wales, Australia) 9781032747057
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.79The most comprehensive collection of post-colonial writing theory and criticism, this third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 124 from key works in the field.Leading, as well... -
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures by Bill Ashcroft 9780415280204
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a... -
Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual by Ned Curthoys 9780522853568
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £23.21This collection is an enterprise of discovery and critical inquiry into the legacy of one of late modernity's greatest public intellectuals, Edward Said. Noted contributors, including Bill Ashcroft,... -
On Post-colonial Futures: Transformations of Colonial Culture by William D. Ashcroft 9780826452269
Booksplease Price: £41.36In this groundbreaking work, Bill Ashcroft extends the arguments posed in The Empire Writes Back to investigate the transformative effects of postcolonial resistance and the continuing relevance of... -
Literature and The Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present by Roger Luckhurst 9780582312043
Booksplease Price: £57.60At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the... -
Transformative Aesthetics by Erika Fischer-Lichte 9780367736002
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Aesthetic theory in the West has, until now, been dominated by ideas of effect, autonomy, and reception. Transformative Aesthetics uncovers these theories' mutual concern with the transformation of... -
The Future of Postcolonial Studies by Chantal Zabus
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34The Future of Postcolonial Studies celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Empire Writes Back by the now famous troika - Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin... -
Politics and Post-Colonial Theory: African Inflections Pal Ahluwalia 9780415247504
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This groundbreaking book makes sense of the complexities and dynamics of post-colonial politics, illustrating how post-colonial theory has marginalised a huge part of its constituency, namely Africa... -
Literature's Sensuous Geographies: Postcolonial Matters of Place by Sten Pultz Moslund 9781137479679
Booksplease Price: £46.28Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc. that often challenge the rationalizing logic of... -
Homi K. Bhabha by David Huddart
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Homi K. Bhabha is one of the most highly renowned figures in contemporary post-colonial studies. This volume explores his writings and their influence on postcolonial theory, introducing in clear... -
Remembering Patrick White: Contemporary Critical Essays by Elizabeth McMahon 9789042028494
Booksplease Price: £79.16Remembering Patrick White presents the first major study of the full range of White's work in over twenty-five years, and aims to bring this important author up to date for new generations of readers... -
Dickens and the Children of Empire by W. Jacobson 9780333770443
Booksplease Price: £90.56Dickens and the Children of Empire examines the themes of childhood and empire throughout Dickens' oeuvre. The prestigious group of contributors initiate and extend debates on the subjects of... -
Paradoxical Citizenship: Essays on Edward Said by Silvia Nagy-Zekmi 9780739132586
Booksplease Price: £51.70Edward Said (1935-2003) has been one of the most influential literary and social critics of the 20th century. His writings extend over topics such as literature, philosophy, music and political... -
Writing India Anew: Indian English Fiction 2000-2010 by Rituparna Roy 9789089645333
RRP: £68.99Booksplease Price: £60.94This groundbreaking study assesses the genre of Indian-English fiction in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Some of the most prominent scholars in the field, including Rimi B. Chatterjee,... -
Modernism and Empire: Writing and British Coloniality, 1890-1940 by Howard Booth 9780719053078
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54This is the first book to explore the relationship between literary modernism and the British Empire. Contributors look at works from the traditional modernist canon as well as extending the range of... -
Comparative Postcolonialism in the Works of V.S. Naipaul and Toni Morrison: Fragmented Identities by Alshaymaa Mohamed Ahmed 9781666921625
Booksplease Price: £86.43Comparative Postcolonialism in the Works of V.S. Naipaul and Toni Morrison: Fragmented Identities begins with an overview of its theoretical framework, highlighting the intersectional relationship... -
Reading Jhumpa Lahiri: Women, Domesticity and the Indian American Diaspora by Nilanjana Chatterjee 9781032107325
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book is an innovative and rigorous study of Jhumpa Lahiri's Indian American female characters' lived and imagined diasporic house space, using domesticity and the house as an analytical tool to... -
New Directions in Travel Writing Studies by Paul Smethurst 9781137457578
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical... -
Involuntary Associations: Postcolonial Studies and World Englishes by David Huddart 9781781380253
Booksplease Price: £40.29An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.The consequences of English's spread have become increasingly clear to its diverse... -
Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation by Adel Iskandar 9780520258907
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.85Edward W. Said (1935-2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book... -
Postcolonial Satire: Indian Fiction and the Reimagining of Menippean Satire by Amy L. Friedman 9781498571968
Booksplease Price: £91.39Postcolonial Satire: Indian Fiction and the Reimagining of Menippean Satire positions postcolonial South Asian satiric fiction at the intersection of the cutting-edge territory of political... -
Archaeology of Colonisation: From Aesthetics to Biopolitics by Carlos Rivera-Santana 9781538147979
Booksplease Price: £33.84This book rethinks the history of colonisation by focusing on the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the Caribbean, and how these ideas were deployed as markers... -
Global Crusoe: Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Theory and Transnational Aesthetics by Ann Marie Fallon
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Global Crusoe travels across the twentieth-century globe, from a Native American reservation to a Botswanan village, to explore the huge variety of contemporary incarnations of Daniel Defoe's... -
Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation by Adel Iskandar 9780520245464
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £52.25Edward W. Said (1935-2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book... -
The Postcolonial Intellectual: Ngugi wa Thiong o in Context by Oliver Lovesey
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship, Oliver Lovesey examines the figure of the postcolonial intellectual as repeatedly evoked by the fabled troika of Said, Spivak, and Bhabha... -
Colonization or Globalization?: Postcolonial Explorations of Imperial Expansion by Silvia Nagy-Zekmi 9780739131763
Booksplease Price: £95.49This book articles presents new scholarship on the subject of imperial expansion through colonization and globalization from a variety of postcolonial perspectives. The essays in this volume, grouped... -
Mabo’s Cultural Legacy: History, Literature, Film and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Australia by Geoff Rodoreda 9781785274244
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09More than any other event in Australia's legal, political and cultural history, the High Court of Australia's 1992 Mabo decision challenged previous ways of thinking about land, identity, belonging,... -
Partitions and Their Afterlives: Violence, Memories, Living by Radhika Mohanram 9781783488391
Booksplease Price: £43.33How can we theorise partitions differently? How are new identities, moralities, polities and life constructed post-partition? How are gender and sexuality recalibrated after partition? How can... -
Presence: Philosophy, History, and Cultural Theory for the Twenty-First Century by Ranjan Ghosh 9780801452208
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £48.80The philosophy of "presence" seeks to challenge current understandings of meaning and understanding. One can trace its origins back to Vico, Dilthey, and Heidegger, though its more immediate... -
Memory, Trauma, Asia: Recall, Affect, and Orientalism in Contemporary Narratives Rahul K. Gairola (Murdoch University, Australia) 9780367645014
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The contributors to this volume re-think established insights of memory and trauma theory and enrich those studies with diverse Asian texts, critically analyzing literary and cultural representations...