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  • The Rise of Pacific Literature

    Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism

    by Matthew Hayward, Maebh Long ...
    Series series Modernist Latitudes
    Winner, 2025 Modernist Studies Association Book PrizeWinner, 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleShortlisted, 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book PrizeIn the 1960s and 1970s, the staff and students of two newly founded universities in the Pacific Islands helped foster a golden age of Oceanian literature. At the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of the South Pacific, bold experiments ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • New Oceania

    Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific

    Edited by Matthew Hayward, Maebh Long ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    For so long figured in European discourses as the antithesis of modernity, the Pacific Islands have remained all but absent from the modernist studies’ critical map. Yet, as the chapters of New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific collectively show, Pacific artists and writers have been as creatively engaged in the construction and representation of modernity as any of their global ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Assembling Flann O'Brien

    by Dr Maebh Long ...
    Winner of the International Flann O'Brien Society Award for Best Book-Length Study 2014Flann O'Brien - also known as Brian O'Nolan or Myles na gCopaleen - is now widely recognised as one of the foremost of Ireland's modern authors. Assembling Flann O'Brien explores the author's innovative and experimental work by reading him in relation to some of the 20th century's most important theorists, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Extreme Pursuits

    Travel/Writing in an Age of Globalization

    by Graham Huggan ...
    Recent figures suggest that there will be 1.6 billion arrivals at world airports by the year 2020. Extreme Pursuits looks at the new conditions of global travel and the unease, even paranoia, that underlies them---at the opportunities they offer for alternative identities and their oscillation between remembered and anticipated states. Graham Huggan offers a provocative account of what is ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Postcolonial Ecologies

    Literatures of the Environment

    Edited by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, George B. Handley ...
    The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific Islands and South Asia. Turning to contemporary works by both well- and little-known postcolonial ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • The Myth of Continents

    A Critique of Metageography

    by Martin W. Lewis, Kären Wigen ...
    In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial frameworks that govern the way we perceive the world. Arguing that notions of East vs. West, First World vs. Third World, and even the sevenfold continental system are simplistic and misconceived, the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment

    Edited by Louise Westling ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment is an authoritative guide to the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism. The collection traces the development of ecocriticism from its origins in European pastoral literature and offers fifteen rigorous but accessible essays on the present state of environmental literary scholarship. Contributions from ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing

    Edited by Robert Clarke ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles, performances and forms, postcolonial travel writing recounts journeys undertaken through places, cultures, and communities that are simultaneously living within, through, and after ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Singapore Literature and Culture

    Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts

    Edited by Angus Whitehead, Angelia Poon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore literature in English has blossomed energetically, and yet there have been few books focusing on contextualizing and analyzing Singapore literature despite the increasing international attention garnered by Singaporean writers. This volume brings Anglophone Singapore literature to a wider global audience for the first time, embedding it ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures

    by Bill Ashcroft ...
    Postcolonial Studies is more often found looking back at the past, but in this brand new book, Bill Ashcroft looks to the future and the irrepressible demands of utopia. The concept of utopia – whether playful satire or a serious proposal for an ideal community – is examined in relation to the postcolonial and the communities with which it engages. Studying a very broad range of literature, poetry ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • A Transnational Poetics

    by Jahan Ramazani ...
    Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous—“stubbornly national,” in T. S. Eliot’s phrase, or “the most provincial of the arts,” according to W. H. Auden. But in A Transnational Poetics, Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the poetic imagination—in modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; in post–World War II North America and the North Atlantic; and in ethnic American, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel

    Edited by Ato Quayson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel provides an engaging account of the postcolonial novel, from Joseph Conrad to Jean Rhys. Reflecting the development of postcolonial literary studies into a significant and intellectually vibrant field, this Companion explores genres and theoretical movements such as magical realism, crime fiction, ecocriticism, and gender and sexuality. Written by ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD