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L' environnement traductionnel
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1992; US$ 26.25La traduction est vraiment l'outil indispensable du monde moderne et de la modernité. Mais on sait qu'elle demande du temps, beaucoup de temps, trop de temps parfois! Il s'agit alors de rationaliser le travail indispensable du traducteur, de créer un environnement qui lui permette de mieux faire face à sa tâche d'être... more...
Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Edinburgh University Press 2013; US$ 112.00Demonstrates the importance of postcolonial approaches to understanding the literature of the period 1787-1833. Arguing that literature of the Romantic period must be understood in the context of British colonial expansion and imperial rule, this text surveys Romantic literatures role in consolidating Britain as the centre of empire. It highlights... more...
Language of Postcolonial Literatures
Routledge 2002; US$ 41.95Exploring literatures from a range of countries this book provides a comprehensive introduction to some of the central features of language in a wide variety of postcolonial texts. more...
Empire Writes Back
Routledge 2002; US$ 30.95This was the first major theoretical account of a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the larger issues of post-colonial culture, and remains one of the most significant works published in this field. more...
Interdisciplinary Measures
Liverpool University Press 2008; US$ 85.00Where now for postcolonial studies? That is the central question in this new volume from one of the fields most original thinkers. Huggans answer is interdisciplinarity and here he sets out a series of conversations between literary studies and other disciplines, notably geography, environmental studies, history and anthropology.Huggan... more...
CliffsNotes on Morrison's Beloved
John Wiley & Sons 1999; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. CliffsNotes on Beloved sheds light on Toni Morrison’s skill in... more...
Aesthetic Nervousness
Columbia University Press 2007; US$ 27.99Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal unease and moral panic invoked by the disabled is refracted within the structures of literature... more...
The Politics of the Female Body
Rutgers University Press 2006; US$ 26.95Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? In Politics of the Female Body, Ketu H. Katrak argues that it is not only possible, but common, especially for women who have been subjects of colonial empires. Through her careful analysis of postcolonial literary texts, Katrak uncovers the ways that the female body becomes... more...
Postcolonial Studies
Routledge 2004; US$ 35.95Parry offers the compelling argument that theoretical work must strive to join remembrance of the material past with a critique of the contemporary condition, remaining unreconciled to the past and unconsoled by the present. more...
Connections
Aboriginal Studies Press 1988; US$ 12.00A collection of 8 essays which were presented at the International Conference on Black Literatures at the University of Queensland in 1986. The essays foucs on Aboriginal literature, including the writings of David Unaipon, Jack Davis, Ed Bullins, Colin Johnson and Kevin Cibert, but also examine other black experiences, including the works of Maori... more...









