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  • COOLITUDE 2, AN ANTHOLOGY

    30 YEARS OF SIGN CROSSING IN INDENTURE

    by Khal Torabully ...
    This second volume comes after Coolitude, An anthology of the Indian Labour Diaspora (2002), which was an academic best-seller.It broadens the space of indenture studies and its heritage. It goes through strict academic categorizations, articulating methodologies and creative visions of indenture in past and present. This anthology, therefore, speaks to all persons concerned with the History of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Creole Indigeneity

    Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean

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  • The George Lamming Reader - The Aesthetics of Decolonisation

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  • The Routledge Companion To Postcolonial Studies

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    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies offers a unique and up-to-date mapping of the postcolonial world, and is composed of essays as well as shorter entries for ease of reference. Introducing students to the history of the great European empires and the cultural legacies created in their wake, this book brings together an international range of contributors on such topics as:the colonial ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial Ecologies

    Literatures of the Environment

    Edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, George B. Handley ...
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  • Borderlands

    Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition

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  • The Postcolonial Contemporary

    Political Imaginaries for the Global Present

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  • Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

    The Making of Calcutta

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    What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together. Pushing beyond narratives of environmental decline, Bhattacharyya argues that 'property-thinking', a governing ... Read more

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