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Keywords for Travel Writing Studies - A Critical Glossary (Paperback): Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley, Kathryn Walchester Keywords for Travel Writing Studies - A Critical Glossary (Paperback)
Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley, Kathryn Walchester
R978 Discovery Miles 9 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Microtravel - Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection (Hardcover): Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley, Kate Walchester Microtravel - Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection (Hardcover)
Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley, Kate Walchester
R2,176 Discovery Miles 21 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Framing the Penal Colony - Representing, Interpreting and Imagining Convict Transportation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Sophie... Framing the Penal Colony - Representing, Interpreting and Imagining Convict Transportation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Sophie Fuggle, Charles Forsdick, Katharina Massing
R3,606 Discovery Miles 36 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the representation of penal colonies both historically and in contemporary culture, across an array of media. Exploring a range of geographies and historical instances of the penal colony, it seeks to identify how the 'penal colony' as a widespread phenomenon is as much 'imagined' and creatively instrumentalized as it pertains to real sites and populations. It concentrates on the range of 'media' produced in and around penal colonies both during their operation and following their closures. This approach emphasizes the role of cross-disciplinary methods and approaches to examining the history and legacy of convict transportation, prison islands and other sites of exile. It develops a range of methodological tools for engaging with cultures and representations of incarceration, detention and transportation. The chapters draw on media discourse analysis, critical cartography, museum and heritage studies, ethnography, architectural history, visual culture including film and comics studies and gaming studies. It aims to disrupt the idea of adopting linear histories or isolated geographies in order to understand the impact and legacy of penal colonies. The overall claim made by the collection is that understanding the cultural production associated with this global phenomenon is a necessary part of a wider examination of carceral imaginaries or 'penal spectatorship' (Brown, 2009) past, present and future. It brings together historiography, criminology, media and cultural studies.

The Modern Essay in French - Movement, Instability, Performance (Paperback): Charles Forsdick, Andrew Stafford The Modern Essay in French - Movement, Instability, Performance (Paperback)
Charles Forsdick, Andrew Stafford
R1,804 Discovery Miles 18 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Travel and Ethics - Theory and Practice (Paperback): Corinne Fowler, Charles Forsdick, Ludmilla Kostova Travel and Ethics - Theory and Practice (Paperback)
Corinne Fowler, Charles Forsdick, Ludmilla Kostova
R1,444 Discovery Miles 14 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical dimensions have yet to be theorized with sufficient rigour. Drawing from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, literary studies and modern languages, the contributors in this volume apply themselves to a number of key theoretical questions pertaining to travel writing and ethics, ranging from travel-as-commoditization to encounters with minority languages under threat. Taken collectively, the essays assess key critical legacies from parallel disciplines to the debate so far, such as anthropological theory and postcolonial criticism. Also considered, and of equal significance, are the ethical implications of the form's parallel genres of writing, such as ethnography and journalism. As some of the contributors argue, innovations in these genres have important implications for the act of theorizing travel writing itself and the mode and spirit in which it continues to be conducted. In the light of such innovations, how might ethical theory maintain its critical edge?

Keywords for Travel Writing Studies - A Critical Glossary (Hardcover): Charles Forsdick, Zoe Kinsley, Kathryn Walchester Keywords for Travel Writing Studies - A Critical Glossary (Hardcover)
Charles Forsdick, Zoe Kinsley, Kathryn Walchester
R3,557 R3,347 Discovery Miles 33 470 Save R210 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Black Jacobins Reader (Paperback): Charles Forsdick, Christian Hogsbjerg The Black Jacobins Reader (Paperback)
Charles Forsdick, Christian Hogsbjerg
R841 R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Save R115 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution. In addition to considering the book's literary qualities and its role in James's emergence as a writer and thinker, the contributors discuss its production, context, and enduring importance in relation to debates about decolonization, globalization, postcolonialism, and the emergence of neocolonial modernity. The Reader also includes the reflections of activists and novelists on the book's influence and a transcript of James's 1970 interview with Studs Terkel. Contributors. Mumia Abu-Jamal, David Austin, Madison Smartt Bell, Anthony Bogues, John H. Bracey Jr., Rachel Douglas, Laurent Dubois, Claudius K. Fergus, Carolyn E. Fick, Charles Forsdick, Dan Georgakas, Robert A. Hill, Christian Hogsbjerg, Selma James, Pierre Naville, Nick Nesbitt, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Matthew Quest, David M. Rudder, Bill Schwarz, David Scott, Russell Maroon Shoatz, Matthew J. Smith, Studs Terkel

Georges Perecs Geographies - Material, Performative and Textual Spaces (Hardcover): Charles Forsdick, Andrew Leak, Richard... Georges Perecs Geographies - Material, Performative and Textual Spaces (Hardcover)
Charles Forsdick, Andrew Leak, Richard Phillips
R1,465 Discovery Miles 14 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Transnational French Studies 2020 (Hardcover): Charles Forsdick, Claire Launchbury Transnational French Studies 2020 (Hardcover)
Charles Forsdick, Claire Launchbury
R3,787 Discovery Miles 37 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The contributors to Transnational French Studies situate this disciplinary subfield of Modern Languages in actively transnational frameworks. The key objective of the volume is to define the core set of skills and methodologies that constitute the study of French culture as a transnational, transcultural and translingual phenomenon. Written by leading scholars within the field, chapters demonstrate the type of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities – both material and non-material – that are integral to what is referred to as French culture. The book considers the transnational dimensions of being human in the world by focussing on four key practices which constitute the object of study for students of French: language and multilingualism; the construction of transcultural places and the corresponding sense of space; the experience of time; and transnational subjectivities. The underlying premise of the volume is that the transnational is present (and has long been present) throughout what we define as French history and culture. Chapters address instances and phenomena associated with the transnational, from prehistory to the present, opening up the geopolitical map of French studies beyond France and including sites where communities identified as French have formed.

Georges Perecs Geographies - Material, Performative and Textual Spaces (Paperback): Charles Forsdick, Andrew Leak, Richard... Georges Perecs Geographies - Material, Performative and Textual Spaces (Paperback)
Charles Forsdick, Andrew Leak, Richard Phillips
R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Postcolonial Thought in the French Speaking World (Paperback, New): Charles Forsdick, David Murphy Postcolonial Thought in the French Speaking World (Paperback, New)
Charles Forsdick, David Murphy
R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the late 1990's, Postcolonial Studies risked imploding as a credible area of academic enquiry. Repeated anthologization and an overemphasis on the English-language literatures led to sustained critiques of the field and to an active search for alternative approaches to the globalized and transnational formations of the post-colonial world. In the early twenty-first century, however, postcolonial began to reveal a new openness to its comparative dimensions. French-language contributors to postcolonial debate (such as Edouard Glissant and Abdelkebir Khatibi) have recently risen to greater prominence in the English-speaking world, and there have also appeared an increasing number of important critical and theoretical texts on postcolonial issues, written by scholars working principally on French-language material. It is to such a context that this book responds. Acknowledging these shifts, this volume provides an essential tool for students and scholars outside French departments seeking a way into the study of Francophone colonial postcolonial debates. At the same time, it supplies scholars in French with a comprehensive overview of essential ideas and key intellectuals in this area.

The Black Jacobins Reader (Hardcover): Charles Forsdick, Christian Hogsbjerg The Black Jacobins Reader (Hardcover)
Charles Forsdick, Christian Hogsbjerg
R2,848 R2,457 Discovery Miles 24 570 Save R391 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution. In addition to considering the book's literary qualities and its role in James's emergence as a writer and thinker, the contributors discuss its production, context, and enduring importance in relation to debates about decolonization, globalization, postcolonialism, and the emergence of neocolonial modernity. The Reader also includes the reflections of activists and novelists on the book's influence and a transcript of James's 1970 interview with Studs Terkel. Contributors. Mumia Abu-Jamal, David Austin, Madison Smartt Bell, Anthony Bogues, John H. Bracey Jr., Rachel Douglas, Laurent Dubois, Claudius K. Fergus, Carolyn E. Fick, Charles Forsdick, Dan Georgakas, Robert A. Hill, Christian Hogsbjerg, Selma James, Pierre Naville, Nick Nesbitt, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Matthew Quest, David M. Rudder, Bill Schwarz, David Scott, Russell Maroon Shoatz, Matthew J. Smith, Studs Terkel

Travel and Ethics - Theory and Practice (Hardcover, New): Corinne Fowler, Charles Forsdick, Ludmilla Kostova Travel and Ethics - Theory and Practice (Hardcover, New)
Corinne Fowler, Charles Forsdick, Ludmilla Kostova
R4,174 Discovery Miles 41 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical dimensions have yet to be theorized with sufficient rigour.

Drawing from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, literary studies and modern languages, the contributors in this volume apply themselves to a number of key theoretical questions pertaining to travel writing and ethics, ranging from travel-as-commoditization to encounters with minority languages under threat. Taken collectively, the essays assess key critical legacies from parallel disciplines to the debate so far, such as anthropological theory and postcolonial criticism. Also considered, and of equal significance, are the ethical implications of the form s parallel genres of writing, such as ethnography and journalism. As some of the contributors argue, innovations in these genres have important implications for the act of theorizing travel writing itself and the mode and spirit in which it continues to be conducted. In the light of such innovations, how might ethical theory maintain its critical edge?

Human Zoos - Science and Spectacle in the Age of Empire (Paperback, Revised): Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, Gilles Boetsch,... Human Zoos - Science and Spectacle in the Age of Empire (Paperback, Revised)
Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, Gilles Boetsch, Eric Deroo, Sandrine Lemaire, …
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Human zoos', forgotten symbols of the colonial era, have been totally repressed in our collective memory. In these 'anthropo-zoological' exhibitions, 'exotic' individuals were placed alongside wild beasts and presented behind bars or in enclosures. Human zoos were a key factor, however, in the progressive shift in the West from scientific to popular racism. Beginning with the early nineteenth-century European exhibition of the Hottentot Venus, this thoroughly documented volume underlines the ways in which they affected the lives of tens of millions of visitors, from London to New York, from Warsaw to Milan, from Moscow to Tokyo... Through Barnum's freak shows, Hagenbeck's 'ethnic shows' (touring major European cities from their German base), French-style villages negres, as well as the great universal and colonial exhibitions, the West invented the 'savage', exhibited the 'peoples of the world', whilst in many cases preparing for or contributing to their colonization... This first mass contact between 'us' and 'them', between the West and elsewhere, created an invisible border. Measured by scientists, exploited in shows, used in official exhibitions, these men, women and children became extras in an imaginary and in a history that were not their own. Based on the best-selling French volume Zoos Humains but with a number of newly commissioned chapters, Human Zoos puts into perspective the 'spectacularization' of the Other, a process that is at the origin of contemporary stereotypes and of the construction of our own identities. A unique book, on a crucial phenomenon, which takes us to the heart of Western fantasies, and allows us to understand the genesis of identity in Japan, Europe and North America.

Toussaint Louverture - A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions (Paperback): Charles Forsdick, Christian Hogsbjerg Toussaint Louverture - A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions (Paperback)
Charles Forsdick, Christian Hogsbjerg
R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of liberty - it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.' - Toussaint Louverture The leader of the only successful slave revolt in history, Toussaint Louverture is seen by many to be one of the greatest anti-imperialist fighters who ever lived. Born into slavery on a Caribbean plantation, he was able to break from his bondage to lead an army of freed African slaves to victory against the professional armies of France, Spain and Britain in the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804. In this biography, Louverture's fascinating life is explored through the prism of his radical politics. It champions this 'black Robespierre' whose revolutionary legacy had inspired people and movements in the two centuries since his death. For anyone interested in the roots of modern-day resistance movements and black political radicalism, Louverture's extraordinary life provides the perfect starting point.

Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity - Journeys between Cultures (Hardcover): Charles Forsdick Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity - Journeys between Cultures (Hardcover)
Charles Forsdick
R4,897 R1,983 Discovery Miles 19 830 Save R2,914 (60%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Victor Segalen (1878-1919) is one of the leading twentieth-century critics of exoticism. Rejecting the colonial literature of his time, he sought new means of approaching non-Western cultures. Segalen has become a common point of reference for a series of important contemporary thinkers (Baudrillard, Glissant, Said, Todorov). However, his work is not yet widely available to English-language readers. This study will provide an invaluable introduction to Segalen for those interested in a variety of fields (travel writing, literary criticism, post-colonial criticism, anthropology).

Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures - The Persistence of Diversity (Hardcover): Charles Forsdick Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures - The Persistence of Diversity (Hardcover)
Charles Forsdick
R5,360 R4,899 Discovery Miles 48 990 Save R461 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is one of the first studies of twentieth-century travel literature in French, tracking the form from the colonial past to the postcolonial present. Whereas most recent explorations of travel literature have addressed English-language material, Forsdick's study complements these by presenting a body of material that has previously attracted little attention, ranging from conventional travel writing to other cultural phenomena (such as the Colonial Exposition of 1931) in which changing attitudes to travel are apparent.
Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures explores the evolution of attitudes to cultural diversity, explaining how each generation seems simultaneously to foretell the collapse and reinvention of "elsewhere." It also follows the progressive renegotiation of understandings of travel (and travel literature) across the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of travel narratives from France's former colonies. The book suggests that an exclusive colonial understanding of travel as a practice defined along the lines of class, gender, and ethnicity has slowly been transformed so that travel has become an enabling figure--encapsulated in notions such as James Clifford's "traveling cultures"--central to analyses of contemporary global culture. Engaging initially with Victor Segalen's early twentieth-century reflection on travel and exoticism and Albert Kahn's "Archives de la Planete," Forsdick goes on to examine a series of interrelated texts and phenomena: early African travel narratives, inter-war ethnography, post-war accounts of Citroen 2CV journeys, the travel stories of immigrant workers, the work of Nicholas Bouvier andthe Pour une litterature voyageuse movement, narratives of recent walking journeys, and contemporary Polynesian literature. In delineating a francophone space stretching far beyond metropolitan France itself, the book contributes to new understandings of French and Francophone Studies, and will also be of interest to those interested in issues of comparatism as well as colonial and postcolonial culture and identity.

Francophone Postcolonial Studies - A critical introduction (French, Paperback, New Ed): Charles Forsdick, David Murphy Francophone Postcolonial Studies - A critical introduction (French, Paperback, New Ed)
Charles Forsdick, David Murphy
R1,142 Discovery Miles 11 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Moving away from reductive geographical or linguistic surveys of the Francophone world, this collection of original essays provides a thematic discussion of the complex historical, political and cultural links between France and its former colonies. Providing a theoretical framework for poscolonial criticism of the field, it also aims to trigger a genuine dialogue between Francophone and Anglophone scholars of postcolonialism. Part one provides a historical overview, from the 18th to the 20th century, addressing issues of colonialism, slavery and exoticism. Part two looks at language issues and discusses France's belief in the universality of its language and culture and the postcolonial challenges to that view. Part three discusses issues of diversity and multiculturalism in contemporary Francophone cultures. Part four concludes with an analysis of the French language contribution to postcolonialism as well as an examination of Francophone postcolonial thought and culture in the principal areas of the French-speaking world.

Francophone Communities Past and Present 2014 - Paragraph Special Issue (Vol 37, Issue 2) (Paperback): Charles Forsdick,... Francophone Communities Past and Present 2014 - Paragraph Special Issue (Vol 37, Issue 2) (Paperback)
Charles Forsdick, Mairead Hanrahan, Martin Munro
R652 Discovery Miles 6 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is an exploration of Francophone communities from the 19th century to the present. It is a special Issue of Paragraph edited in 2001 by Celia Britton and Michael Syrotinski on Francophone Texts and Postcolonial Theory played a determining role in shaping the research field it helped to map. Ten years later, this collection of ten articles provides an opportunity to explore Francophone communities from a range of perspectives which similarly engage with today's most pressing questions in Francophone-Caribbean studies and postcolonial studies more generally. The contributions draw on material from different historical moments, ranging from the 19th century to the contemporary period, and explore questions of literature, culture, society and thought from across the Francophone Caribbean and beyond. They will bring together original work by some of the leading scholars in those fields, including Charles Forsdick, Kate Hodgson, Martin Munro, Lorna Milne, Eli Park Sorenson, Mary Gallagher, Maeve McCusker and Michael Syrotinski.

A Poetics of Space - Images of Con Dao (Paperback): Charles Fox, Sophie Fuggle, Charles Forsdick A Poetics of Space - Images of Con Dao (Paperback)
Charles Fox, Sophie Fuggle, Charles Forsdick
R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Human Zoos - Science and Spectacle in the Age of Empire (Hardcover): Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, Gilles Boetsch, Eric... Human Zoos - Science and Spectacle in the Age of Empire (Hardcover)
Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, Gilles Boetsch, Eric Deroo, Sandrine Lemaire, …
R4,232 Discovery Miles 42 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Human zoos', forgotten symbols of the colonial era, have been totally repressed in our collective memory. In these 'anthropo-zoological' exhibitions, 'exotic' individuals were placed alongside wild beasts and presented behind bars or in enclosures. Human zoos were a key factor, however, in the progressive shift in the West from scientific to popular racism. Beginning with the early nineteenth-century European exhibition of the Hottentot Venus, this thoroughly documented volume underlines the ways in which they affected the lives of tens of millions of visitors, from London to New York, from Warsaw to Milan, from Moscow to Tokyo... Through Barnum's freak shows, Hagenbeck's 'ethnic shows' (touring major European cities from their German base), French-style villages negres, as well as the great universal and colonial exhibitions, the West invented the 'savage', exhibited the 'peoples of the world', whilst in many cases preparing for or contributing to their colonization... This first mass contact between 'us' and 'them', between the West and elsewhere, created an invisible border. Measured by scientists, exploited in shows, used in official exhibitions, these men, women and children became extras in an imaginary and in a history that were not their own. Based on the best-selling French volume Zoos Humains but with a number of newly commissioned chapters, Human Zoos puts into perspective the 'spectacularization' of the Other, a process that is at the origin of contemporary stereotypes and of the construction of our own identities. A unique book, on a crucial phenomenon, which takes us to the heart of Western fantasies, and allows us to understand the genesis of identity in Japan, Europe and North America.

Transnational French Studies 2020 (Paperback): Charles Forsdick, Claire Launchbury Transnational French Studies 2020 (Paperback)
Charles Forsdick, Claire Launchbury
R2,167 Discovery Miles 21 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The contributors to Transnational French Studies situate this disciplinary subfield of Modern Languages in actively transnational frameworks. The key objective of the volume is to define the core set of skills and methodologies that constitute the study of French culture as a transnational, transcultural and translingual phenomenon. Written by leading scholars within the field, chapters demonstrate the type of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities – both material and non-material – that are integral to what is referred to as French culture. The book considers the transnational dimensions of being human in the world by focussing on four key practices which constitute the object of study for students of French: language and multilingualism; the construction of transcultural places and the corresponding sense of space; the experience of time; and transnational subjectivities. The underlying premise of the volume is that the transnational is present (and has long been present) throughout what we define as French history and culture. Chapters address instances and phenomena associated with the transnational, from prehistory to the present, opening up the geopolitical map of French studies beyond France and including sites where communities identified as French have formed.

Postcolonial Realms of Memory - Sites and Symbols in Modern France (Paperback): Etienne Achille, Charles Forsdick, Lydie... Postcolonial Realms of Memory - Sites and Symbols in Modern France (Paperback)
Etienne Achille, Charles Forsdick, Lydie Moudileno
R1,526 Discovery Miles 15 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Recognized as one of the most influential studies of memory in the late twentieth century, Pierre Nora's monumental project Les Lieux de memoire has been celebrated for its elaboration of a ground-breaking paradigm for rethinking the relationship between the nation, territory, history and memory. It has also, however, been criticized for implying a narrow perception of national memory from which the legacy of colonialism was excluded. Driven by an increasingly critical postcolonial discourse on French historiography and fuelled by the will to acknowledge the relevance of the colonial in the making of modern and contemporary France, the present volume intends to address in a collective and sustained manner this critical gap by postcolonializing the French Republic's lieux de memoire. The various chapters discern and explore an initial repertoire of realms and sites in France and the so-called Outremer that crystalize traces of colonial memory, while highlighting its inherent dialectical relationship with firmly instituted national memory. By making visible the invisible thread that links the colonial to various manifestations of French heritage, the objective is to bring to the fore the need to anchor the colonial in a collective memory that has often silenced it, and to foster new readings of the past as it is represented, remembered and inscribed in the nation's collective imaginary.

The Modern Essay in French - Movement, Instability, Performance (English, French, Paperback): Charles Forsdick, Andrew... The Modern Essay in French - Movement, Instability, Performance (English, French, Paperback)
Charles Forsdick, Andrew Stafford, Peter Collier
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Out of stock
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