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Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian Fiction
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 42.95What do R.K. Narayan, G.V. Desani, Anita Desai, Zulfikar Ghose, Suniti Namjoshi, and Salman Rushdie have in common? They represent Indian writing in English over five decades. Vilified by many cultural nationalists for not writing in native languages, they nonetheless present a critique of the historical and cultural conditions that promoted... more...
Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Via readings of novels by J.M. Coetzee, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie and the later poetry of W.B. Yeats, this book reveals how postcolonial writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility needed to supplant ongoing forms of imperial violence with cosmopolitan institutions, relationships and ways of thinking. more...
Islam in the Eastern African Novel
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Islam in the Eastern African Novel offers an idiosyncratic perspective on the sub-Saharan African novel. Mirmotahari argues that Islam is not an incidental factor in the novels of Vassanji Gurnah and Farah, but a central organizing presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories... more...
Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00This book is an examination of how the space of the downtown served dual purposes as both a symbol of colonial influence and capital in Egypt, as well as a staging ground for the demonstrations of the Egyptian nationalist movement. It is through the lens of literature, in this case a body of texts that form an archive on the downtown, that one is able... more...
Exploring Arab Folk Literature
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 104.00The character and range of Arab folk literature are investigated by Pierre Cachia in this collection of his pioneering essays in the field. more...
Cosmopolitical Claims
University of Iowa Press 2007; US$ 29.95Cosmopolitical Claims is a profoundly original study of the works of Sten Nadonly, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Feridun Zaimoglu, and 2006 Nobel prize in literature recipient Orhan Pamuk. Rather than using the proverbial hyphen in ?Turkish-German? to indicate a culture caught between two nations, Venkat Mani is interested in how Turkish-German literature engages... more...
Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity. more...
The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful of them were interested in Europe. more...
Europe's Languages on England's Stages, 15901620
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 89.95Exploring issues of culture and performance raised by presentations of European languages-Welsh, French, Dutch, Spanish, Irish and Latin-on the stage, this book treats sound and performance as essential to understanding what these languages meant in the English theatre. It contributes to our emerging sense of how local identities and global knowledge... more...
A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature
Saqi 2012; US$ 10.19Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a unique overview, focusing on developments over the last fifty years. It provides a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas and debates. The picture... more...









