Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913-1939

Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913-1939

Author: Bashir Abu-Manneh

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1611493528

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Fiction of the New Statesman is the first study of the short stories published in the renowned British journal theNew Statesman. This book argues that New Statesman fiction advances a strong realist preoccupation with ordinary, everyday life, and shows how British domestic concerns have a strong hold on the working-class and lower-middle-class imaginative output of this period.


The Palestinian Novel

The Palestinian Novel

Author: Bashir Abu-Manneh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1316592189

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What happens to the Palestinian novel after the national dispossession of the nakba, and how do Palestinian novelists respond to this massive crisis? This is the first study in English to chart the development of the Palestinian novel in exile and under occupation from 1948 onwards. By reading the novel in the context of the ebb and flow of Arab and Palestinian revolution, Bashir Abu-Manneh defines the links between aesthetics and politics. Combining historical analysis with textual readings of key novels by Jabra, Kanafani, Habiby, and Khalifeh, the chronicle of the Palestinian novel unfolds as one that articulates humanism, self-sacrifice as collective redemption, mutuality, and self-realization. Political challenge, hope, and possibility are followed by the decay of collective and individual agency. Genet's and Khoury's unrivalled literary homages to Palestinian revolt are also examined. By critically engaging with Lukács, Adorno, and postcolonial theory, questions of struggle and self-determination take centre stage.


Time and Tide

Time and Tide

Author: Catherine Clay

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1474418198

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"The first in-depth study of the landmark modern feminist magazine, "Time and Tide." Unique in establishing itself as the only female-run intellectual weekly in the golden age of the weekly review, "Time and Tide" both challenged persistent prejudices against women's participation in public life and played an instrumental role in redefining women's gender roles and identities. Drawing on extensive new archival research, Catherine Clay recovers the contributions to this magazine of both well- and lesser-known British women writers, editors, critics and journalists and explores a cultural dialogue about literature, politics and the arts that took place beyond the parameters of modernist 'little magazines.' The book makes a major contribution to the history of women's writing and feminism in Britain between the wars."--Publisher's description


After Said

After Said

Author: Bashir Abu-Manneh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1108429173

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This book focuses on the problems and opportunities afforded by Edward Said's work and develops a materialist critique of postcolonial studies.


Winifred Holtby's Social Vision

Winifred Holtby's Social Vision

Author: Lisa Regan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1317322908

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Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) is best-known today for her friendship with fellow feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain and for her last novel, South Riding. This is the first monograph to provide a literary criticism of Holtby’s social philosophy and presents in-depth readings of all her major works as well as some of her less well-known writing.


The Statesman's Year-Book

The Statesman's Year-Book

Author: M. Epstein

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-27

Total Pages: 1507

ISBN-13: 0230270743

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The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.


The Statesman's Year-Book

The Statesman's Year-Book

Author: Mortimer Epstein

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-27

Total Pages: 1492

ISBN-13: 0230270727

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The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.


The Statesman's Year-Book

The Statesman's Year-Book

Author: S. Steinberg

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-28

Total Pages: 1554

ISBN-13: 0230270786

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The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.


The Birmingham Group

The Birmingham Group

Author: Robin Harriott

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-10-14

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 3031143833

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The focus of this study is the collective of writers known variously as the Birmingham Group, the Birmingham School or the Birmingham Proletarian Writers who were active in the City of Birmingham in the decade prior to the Second World War. Their narratives chronicle the lived-experience of their fellow citizens in the urban manufacturing centre which had by this time become Britain’s second city. Presumed ‘guilty by association’ with a working-class literature considered overtly propagandistic, formally conservative, or merely the naive emulation of bourgeois realism, their narratives have in consequence suffered undue critical neglect. This book repudiates such assertions by arguing that their works not only contrast markedly with other examples of working-class writing produced in the 1930s but also prove themselves responsive to recent critical assessments seeking a more holistic and intersectional approach to issues of working-class identity.