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  • Created in the West Indies: Caribbean Perspectives on V.S. Naipaul

    de Jennifer Rahim (Editor), Barbara Lalla (Editor) ...
    Created in the West Indies: Caribbean Perspectives on V.S. Naipaul updates and furthers the debates on the life and work of an internationally acclaimed writer, Nobel laureate and native son of Trinidad and Tobago. The essays in this collection are organised into three sections that represent a compression of the multifaceted range of V.S. Naipaul’s creative concerns, thematic explorations, even ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • Bookless in Baghdad

    Reflections on Writing and Writers

    de Shashi Tharoor ...
    Shashi Tharoor is once again at his provocative best. In the title essay, we learn the steep price paid by some Iraqis just to obtain a book; what does it mean when selling books, essentially selling culture, out of one’s own library is the only way to put bread on the table? Later, Tharoor reminisces about growing up with books in India and the central position of classics like the Mahabharata in ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Life and Words

    Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary

    de Veena Das ...
    In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology’s most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena Das examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in 1947 and the ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Religion: The Basics

    de Malory Nye ...
    Series series The Basics
    From the local to the global level, religion is – more than ever – an important and hotly debated part of modern life in the twenty-first century.From silver rings to ringtones and from clubs to headscarves, we often find the cultural role and discussion of religion in unexpected ways.Now in its second edition, Religion: The Basics remains the best introduction to religion and contemporary culture ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Violent Phenomena

    Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation

    de Kavita Bhanot, Jeremy Tiang ...
    “These essays, deftly blending the political and the personal, offer fresh, galvanizing, and passionate perspectives on literary translation.”—Jhumpa LahiriA manifesto in 22 essays, Violent Phenomena breaks stale rules about who can and should translate, envisioning a future more reflective of the beautiful polyphony of literature in all languages.?What would it take to unlearn centuries of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Mr Isherwood Changes Trains

    de Victor Marsh ...
    British expatriate writer Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) moved to America prior to the Second World War and lived more than half his life in California, writing for the Hollywood studios. Famous initially for the stories he wrote during the rise of the Nazis, he attracted a second wave of interest in the 1970s with his 'out' autobiography 'Christopher and His Kind' (1976). But much less is ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Post-Apocalyptic Culture

    Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel

    de Teresa Heffernan ...
    In Post-Apocalyptic Culture, Teresa Heffernan poses the question: what is at stake in a world that no longer believes in the power of the end? Although popular discourse increasingly understands apocalypse as synonymous with catastrophe, historically, in both its religious and secular usage, apocalypse was intricately linked to the emergence of a better world, to revelation, and to disclosure.In ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Life-Writing

    Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation

    de Bart Moore-Gilbert ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Postcolonial Life-Writing is the first attempt to offer a sustained critique of this increasingly visible and influential field of cultural production.Bart Moore-Gilbert considers the relationship between postcolonial life-writing and its western analogues, identifying the key characteristics that differentiate the genre in the postcolonial context. Focusing particularly on writing styles and ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie

    Edición de Abdulrazak Gurnah ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Salman Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to his entire oeuvre. Part I provides thematic readings of Rushdie and his work, with chapters on how Bollywood films are intertextual with the fiction, the place of family and gender in the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Travel Writing

    de Casey Blanton ...
    Series series Genres in Context
    Blanton follows the development of travel writing from classical times to the present, focusing in particular on Anglo-American travel writing since the eighteenth century. He identifies significant theoretical and critical contributions to the field, and also examines key texts by James Boswell, Mary Kingsley, Graham Greene, Peter Mathiessen, V.S. Naipaul, and Bruce Chatwin. ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Magical Realism in West African Fiction

    de Brenda Cooper ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This study contextualizes magical realism within current debates and theories of postcoloniality and examines the fiction of three of its West African pioneers: Syl Cheney-Coker of Sierra Leone, Ben Okri of Nigeria and Kojo Laing of Ghana. Brenda Cooper explores the distinct elements of the genre in a West African context, and in relation to: * a range of global expressions of magical realism, ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • The World's Religions: The Study of Religion, Traditional and New Religion

    Edición de Peter Clarke, Stewart Sutherland ...
    Examines the `primitive' (traditional) non -mainstream religion and also 20th century sects such as the Moonies and Scientology. Looks at the `nature' of religion - the general philosophical issues. Written by international specialists. ... Leer más

    $120.99 USD