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  • Australianama

    The South Asian Odyssey in Australia

    by Samia Khatun ...
    Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of various peoples colonized by the British Empire to chart a history of South Asian diaspora. Australia has long been an outpost of Anglo empires in the Indian Ocean world, today ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • 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

  • The Politics of Gender in Nigerian and Zimbabwean Women’s Fiction

    Agencies and Strategies of Resistance

    by Isabella Villanova, Aaron Kamugisha, Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, Elleke Boehmer, Samia Khatun, Minkah Makalani ...
    Series Book 7 - Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century
    The book presents the first comparative study of four prominent African women writers: Buchi Emecheta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Nigeria, and Tsitsi Dangarembga and Yvonne Vera from Zimbabwe. The study explores issues of gender and resistance, while historicising and emphasising the literary legacies and genealogies of Anglophone African women’s writing from the twentieth and twenty-first ... Read more

    $93.59 CAD

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  • Diasporic Women’s Writing of the Black Atlantic

    (En)Gendering Literature and Performance

    Edited by Emilia María Durán-Almarza, Esther Álvarez López ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies
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  • Black Women, Writing and Identity

    Migrations of the Subject

    by Carole Boyce-Davies ...
    Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set of interrelated issues, establishing the significance of such wide-ranging subjects as:* re-mapping, re-naming and cultural crossings* tourist ideologies and playful world travelling* gender, heritage and identity* African women's writing and ... Read more

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  • Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    Series series Pelican Books
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    by John McLeod ...
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    What is Pakistan? The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest partition of territory and population that accompanied the end of British empire in South Asia. But the region of the Indus Valley has a four-thousand-year-old history, and was the site of one of the earliest and greatest riverine civilisations in the world. Although the modern nation of Pakistan as we ... Read more

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  • The Rule of the Clan

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    by Mark S. Weiner ...
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    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

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