Post-Colonial Studies

Presents a major challenge to our current understanding of the history of Western literature, in the first feminist and anti-imperialist account of the development of the novel...

The publication in 1648 of the first authentic account of the provinces of New Spain and Central America by a well-known and educated Englishman excited widespread interest, and The English American found many readers...

This transnational collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces on the 1982 Siege of Beirut explores representations of the siege by a diverse set of writers alongside journalism and other media, asking how they challenge geopolitical, intellectual, and psychological states of siege and ins..

This transnational collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces on the 1982 Siege of Beirut explores representations of the siege by a diverse set of writers alongside journalism and other media, asking how they challenge geopolitical, intellectual, and psychological states of siege and ins..

This study uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes -- the places and people on the other side of the world -- from ancient Greece to present-day literature and digital media. Taking into account maps, letters, book illustrations, travel writing,..

Exploring the work of key writers from across the globe, this significant contribution to diaspora theory constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora...

This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and contemporary debates on urbanism through the filter of postcolonial fictions and the cultural..

The importance of Antonio Gramsci’s work for postcolonial studies can hardly be exaggerated, and in this volume, contributors situate Gramsci's work in the vast and complex oeuvre of postcolonial studies. Specifically, this book endeavors to reassess the impact on postcolonial studies of the central..

The importance of Antonio Gramsci’s work for postcolonial studies can hardly be exaggerated, and in this volume, contributors situate Gramsci's work in the vast and complex oeuvre of postcolonial studies. Specifically, this book endeavors to reassess the impact on postcolonial studies of the central..

This cutting-edge volume bridges two significant bodies of recent Austen scholarship, one emphasizing the issue of gender and one centralising the history of colonialism and slavery...

This cutting-edge volume bridges two significant bodies of recent Austen scholarship, one emphasizing the issue of gender and one centralising the history of colonialism and slavery...

This book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre...