Offers a lucid introduction to postcolonial studies, one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.
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The volume aims to introduce readers to key concepts, methods, theories, thematic concerns, and contemporary debates in the field.
She is the author of Recalling Recitation in the Americas: Borderless Curriculum, Performance Poetry, and Reading, forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press. anjali nerlekar is Associate Professor in the Department of African, ...
Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.
This Companion addresses an exciting emerging field of literary scholarship that charts the intersections of postcolonial studies and travel writing.
This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.
This Companion rethinks food in literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to contemporary food blogs, and recovers cookbooks as literary texts.
This authoritative collection of rigorous but accessible essays investigates the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism.
With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field.
Albert Camus is one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century French literature, one of France's most widely read modern literary authors and one of the youngest winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature.