Postcolonial Masquerades
Author: Niti Sampat Patel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1136537155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Masquerade and Postsocialism
Author: Gerald W. Creed
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011-01-24
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0253222613
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Post-colonial Intertexts
Author: Geetha Ramanathan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-02-27
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9004541152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn investigation about the way how contemporary post-colonial intertexts take colonialism and euro-modernism to trial.
Historical Representation and the Postcolonial Imaginary
Author: John Hartnett
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2011-01-18
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 1443828084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical Representation and the Postcolonial Imaginary: Constructing Travellers and Aborigines endeavours to provide an overview of the role which oral history plays in the documentation, representation and subsequent empowerment of neglected and long-marginalised social groups, in this case: the cultural minorities that are the Irish Travellers and the Australian Aborigines. Oral history has proved paramount in enabling such groups to document their pasts, pasts which until recently had been occluded and often-ignored. This work explores the genre that is oral history through the prism that is the construction of the ‘Other’ in society and with particular reference to two minorities whose histories share a range of similar characteristics. In examining this process, it is possible to trace the transformation of folklore and storytelling into documented historical narrative.
The Waste Fix
Author: William G. Little
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-03-11
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1136746838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2002. This book explores the philosophical, social, and aesthetic implications of twentieth-century America's obsession with eliminating waste. Through interdisciplinary engagement with fiction and popular culture, William Little traces the way this obsession finds expression in powerful social forces (e.g., the drive to consume conspicuously; the Progressive-era campaign to manage scientifically; the current demand to "reduce, reuse, recycle"), and shows how such forces are governed by an idealism that links proper treatment of waste with the promise of salvation.
The Merchant of Modernism
Author: Gary Levine
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1136719172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Merchant of Modernism examines how the figure of the economic Jew symbolizes the struggle of authors from Dickens to Pound to reconcile their critique of capitalism with their own literary practices and how the shifting of the representations of this figure parallels the development of literary Modernism. From the sudden rise of the Victorian stock market to the Great Depression, the prominence of economic Jews in the writings of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, Henry James, Abraham Cahan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce documents major shifts and events in capitalism, their impact on literature, and advances in economic thought. The Merchant of Modernism provides a sophisticated analysis of the role of economic history and economic thought in shaping both literary Modernism and modern anti-Semitism.
Out of Touch
Author: Maureen F. Curtin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1135373647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOut of Touch investigates how skin has become a crucial but disavowed figure in twentieth-century literature, theory, and cultural criticism. These discourses reveal the extent to which skin figures in the cultural effect of changes in visual technologies, a development argued by critics to be at the heart of the contest between surface and depth and, by extension, Western globalization and identity politics. The skin has a complex history as a metaphorical terrain over which ideological wars are fought, identity is asserted through modification as in tattooing, and meaning is inscribed upon the human being. Yet even as interventions on the skin characterize much of this history, fantasy and science fiction literature and film trumpet skin's passing in the cybernetic age, and feminist theory calls for abandoning the skin as a hostile boundary.
Writing the City
Author: Desmond Harding
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1135947473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work examines and challenges the traditional transatlantic axis, London-Paris-New York, that marks the intersection between western thinking about the City and the advent of literary modernism.
Border Modernism
Author: Christopher Schedler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1136720642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReorienting the field of American literary modernism, Christopher Schedler defines an intercultural form of representation termed border modernism that challenges the aesthetic hegemony of metropolitan (high) modernism. In this study, Schedler compares the works of European and Anglo-American modernists with the works of Mexican, Native American, and Chicano writers who engaged with modernist theories and practices. In the process he uncovers a unique intercultural aesthetic produced in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico aimed at modernizing the native literary traditions of the Americas. Addressing issues of migration, cultural identity, and ethnography, Border Modernism is a major contribution to current debates over the origins and development of American literary modernism and a new model for transnational and intercultural reconstructions of American literary history.
Word of Mouth
Author: Susanne M. Skubal
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1136713298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the importance of oral experience as reflected in literature, Word of Mouth extends psychoanalytic theory as forwarded by Freud, Karl Abraham, Melanie Klein, and Julia Kristeva. The meaning of oral experience is explored with reference to several texts, looking at the oral bond between mother and child in Proust and questions of disordered eating, raised by aggressive orality, found in Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Throughout, the author draws forth the myriad expressions relating the desires and dramas of the mouth, its pervasive pleasures and its dreads.
