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  • Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World

    Edited by Rebecca Romdhani, Daria Tunca ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This book examines representations of violence across the postcolonial world—from the Americas to Australia—in novels, short stories, plays, and films. The chapters move from what appear to be interpersonal instances of violence to communal conflicts such as civil war, showing how these acts of violence are specifically rooted in colonial forms of abuse and oppression but constantly move and morph ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Edited by Daria Tunca ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, and essays on feminism, she is also an outspoken intellectual. As she puts it in an interview with Lia Grainger, in her characteristically straightforward style: “I have things to say and I’ll say ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

    On the Edge

    Edited by Bénédicte Ledent, Evelyn O'Callaghan, Daria Tunca ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection takes as its starting point the ubiquitous representation of various forms of mental illness, breakdown and psychopathology in Caribbean writing, and the fact that this topic has been relatively neglected in criticism, especially in Anglophone texts, apart from the scholarship devoted to Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). The contributions to this volume demonstrate that much ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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    Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora

    by Nadia Ellis ...
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    $38.99 CAD

  • Genders

    by David Glover, Cora Kaplan ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications, including:an overview of the critical language and concepts ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Postmodern Literature and Race

    Edited by Len Platt, Sara Upstone ...
    Postmodernism Literature and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • Other Selves

    Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination

    Edited by Janice Fiamengo ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination begins with the premise, first suggested by Margaret Atwood in The Animals in That Country (1968), that animals have occupied a peculiarly central position in the Canadian imagination. Unlike the longer-settled countries of Europe or the more densely-populated United States, in Canada animals have always been the loved and feared co ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Ghosts of the African Diaspora

    Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity

    by Joanne Chassot ...
    The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary writers—Fred D’Aguiar, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff, and Toni Morrison. Joanne Chassot argues that reading these texts through the lens of the ghost does ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Rewriting the Victorians

    Modes of Literary Engagement with the 19th Century

    by Andrea Kirchknopf ...
    The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as well as the explosion of commodities and even interactive theme parks. This book is an introduction to the novelistic refashionings that have come after the Victorian age with a special focus on revisions of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edited by David Rudd ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of children’s literature in all its manifestations. It features a series of essays written by expert contributors who provide an illuminating examination of why children’s literature is the way it is. Topics covered include:the history and development of children's literaturevarious theoretical approaches ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives

    Violence and Violation

    Edited by Sorcha Gunne, Zoe Brigley Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the contributors aim to incorporate arguments about trauma and resistance in order to establish new dimensions of healing. This book makes a vital contribution ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature

    by Kathryn James ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Knowledge about carnality and its limits provides the agenda for much of the fiction written for adolescent readers today, yet there exists little critical engagement with the ways in which it has been represented in the young adult novel in either discursive, ideological, or rhetorical forms. Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature is a pioneering study that addresses ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD