English literature is studied, at some stage or other, by almost every middle and upper-class person in India. Its importance as a discipline, or as a body of texts, that...
Questions the reasoning behind Western images of the environmental destruction taking place in Africa.
This work questions the reasoning behind Western images of the environmental destruction taking place in Africa. It asks how environmental orthodoxies become established, and what the alternative and appropriate approaches...
Mitchell's analysis appropriates the best of studies of representation while critiquing their abstraction from material production. All this while capturing the role of migrant workers in the making of the California landscape.
The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape
Fintan O'Toole highlights the contradictions and the mythologies at work in Ireland's ever-changing idea of itself.
A suspenseful black comedy, this is a rich, compassionate and enthralling novel in its depiction of the English countryside, and the potentially lethal interplay between money and marriage.