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  • Multicultural British Screen Comedy

    Race, Racism and Antiracism

    by Sarah Ilott ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book traces the shifting politics of race in contemporary Britain through analysis of screen comedy that has worked to parrot, cloak or confront racist discourse. Moving from 1950s minstrelsy through to contemporary streaming-era content, Ilott demonstrates how race is made and unmade through screen comedy’s engagements with the tacit (and often racist) premises of British multicultural ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • New Postcolonial British Genres

    Shifting the Boundaries

    by Sarah Ilott ...
    This study analyses four new genres of literature and film that have evolved to accommodate and negotiate the changing face of postcolonial Britain since 1990: British Muslim Bildungsromane, gothic tales of postcolonial England, the subcultural urban novel and multicultural British comedy. ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • New Directions in Diaspora Studies

    Cultural and Literary Approaches

    Edited by Sarah Ilott, Ana Cristina Mendes, Lucinda Newns ...
    This collection brings together new critical approaches to diaspora studies, branching out to areas such as literary studies, visual culture, and museum studies, and explores them in relation to a variety of fictional works, cultural traditions, theoretical paradigms, and geo-political contexts. The innovation of this volume lies in the interplay of both texts and theoretical insights from these ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Comedy and the Politics of Representation

    Mocking the Weak

    Edited by Helen Davies, Sarah Ilott ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which “humorous” constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability raise serious issues about privilege, agency and oppression in popular culture. Should there be limits to free speech when humour is aimed at marginalised social groups? What are the limits of free ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Postcolonial Theory in the Global Age

    Interdisciplinary Essays

    Edited by Om Prakash Dwivedi, Martin Kich ...
    The new essays in this collection examine newer forms of colonialism operating today in an increasingly globalized world. Recognizing the complexities and culpability of postcolonial politics, the contributors fill gaps that exist at theoretical levels of postcolonial studies. By studying film, literature, history and architecture, they arrive at new ideas about immigration, gender, cultural ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Postcolonial Exotic

    Marketing the Margins

    by Graham Huggan ...
    Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial writing?In The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is attributed to postcolonial works within their cultural field. Using varied methods of analysis, Huggan discusses both the exoticist discourses that run ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Migrant Image

    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    by T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Multicultural Horizons

    Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation

    by Anne-Marie Fortier ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites is considered in this timely analysis of how the ‘New Britain’ of the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined as multicultural. Introducing the concept of ‘multicultural intimacies’, Anne-Marie Fortier offers a new form of critical engagement with the cultural politics of multiculturalism, one that attends to ideals of mixing, ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Radicalization

    The Life Writings of Political Prisoners

    by Melissa Dearey ...
    Expanding the influence of auto/biography studies into cultural criminology, Radicalization: The Life Writings of Political Prisoners addresses the origins, processes and cultures of terrorist criminality and political resistance in a globalized world.Criminologists and penologists have long been aware of the sheer volume of autobiography emerging from our prisons. Political prisoners, POWs, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Transformations of the Liminal Self

    Configurations of Home and Identity for Muslim Characters in British Postcolonial Fiction

    by Alaa Alghamdi ...
    The concept of home has been changing for more than a century. This change began with colonialism and the movement of people across the globe, often within a set power dynamic. Since people now move with greater frequency, the question of where home is and what home means is more relevant than ever before. Meticulously researched, Transformations of the Liminal Self addresses the formation of home ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Debating Cultural Hybridity

    Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism

    Edited by Pnina Werbner, Tariq Modood ...
    Series series Postcolonial Encounters
    Why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? In what ways does racism continue to strike at the foundations of multiculturalism?Bringing together some of the world's most influential postcolonial theorists, this classic collection examines the place and meaning of cultural hybridity in the context of growing global crisis, xenophobia and racism.Starting from the reality ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Edward Said

    A Critical Introduction

    by Valerie Kennedy ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Edward Said is one of the foremost thinkers writing today. His work as a literary and cultural critic, a political commentator, and the champion of the cause of Palestinian rights has given him a unique position in western intellectual life. This new book is a major exploration and assessment of his writings in all these main areas.Focusing on Said's insistence on the connection between literature ... Read more

    $22.00 USD