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  • Mothering and Matrifocality in Contemporary Caribbean Literature

    by Leighan Renaud, Aaron Kamugisha, Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, Elleke Boehmer, Samia Khatun, Minkah Makalani ...
    Series Book 8 - Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century
    This book examines representations of mothering and matrifocality in twenty-first-century Caribbean fiction. Through an analysis of several contemporary novels from Anglophone Caribbean writers, this study rejects the historic problematisation of matrifocality (mother-centeredness) as an alternative to the nuclear family structure by positioning it instead as a vital and capacious building block ... Read more

    $93.59 CAD

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  • The Empire Writes Back

    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

    by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    Series series New Accents
    The 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 specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment

    by Timothy Clark ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoretical approach to culture more generally, 'ecocriticism' is a varied and fast-changing set of practices which challenges inherited thinking and ... Read more

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  • Caribbean Reasonings: Culture, Politics and Diaspora - The Thought of Stuart Hall

    by Brian Meeks (Editor) ...
    Stuart Hall, in whose honour this volume is compiled, has made significant contributions to contemporary social and political discourse. Constantly praised for his scholarly prescience, he was at the helm of the forging and definition of the discipline of Cultural Studies and nurtured an entire cadre of young intellectuals who continue to make remarkable contributions in the fields of Cultural ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Ecologies

    Literatures of the Environment

    Edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, George B. Handley ...
    The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial ... Read more

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  • There's a Disco Ball Between Us

    A Theory of Black Gay Life

    by Jafari Sinclaire Allen ...
    In There’s a Disco Ball Between Us, Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what he calls “Black gay habits of mind.” In conversational and lyrical language, Allen locates this sensibility as it emerged from radical Black lesbian activism and writing during the long 1980s. He traverses multiple temporalities and locations, drawing on research and ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature

    Edited by Douglas A. Vakoch ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature. Covering the main theoretical approaches and key literary genres of the area, this volume includes ... Read more

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  • Looking for the Other

    Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze

    by E. Ann Kaplan ...
    What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? Looking for the Other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. It focuses attention on the male gaze across cultures, as illustrated by women filmmakers of color whose films deal with travel.Looking relations are determined ... Read more

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  • Everywhen

    Australia and the Language of Deep History

    Edited by Ann McGrath, Jakelin Troy, Laura Rademaker ...
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    Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia’s Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice. Indigenous embodied practices for ... Read more

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    Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition

    by Aaron Kamugisha ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    Against the lethargy and despair of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean experience, Aaron Kamugisha gives a powerful argument for advancing Caribbean radical thought as an answer to the conundrums of the present. Beyond Coloniality is an extended meditation on Caribbean thought and freedom at the beginning of the 21st century and a profound rejection of the postindependence social and political ... Read more

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  • Research Through, With and As Storying

    by Louise Gwenneth Phillips, Tracey Bunda ...
    Research Through, With and As Storying explores how Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars can engage with storying as a tool that disassembles conventions of research. The authors explore the concept of storying across different cultures, times and places, and discuss principles of storying and storying research, considering Indigenous, feminist and critical theory standpoints. Through the book, ... Read more

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