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The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and
extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an
important and timely reappraisal of postcolonialism as an
aesthetic, political, and historical movement, and of postcolonial
studies as a multidisciplinary, transcultural field. Essays map the
terrain of the postcolonial as a global phenomenon at the
intersection of several disciplinary inquiries. Framed by an
introductory chapter and a concluding essay, the eight sections
examine: Affective, Postcolonial Histories Postcolonial Desires
Religious Imaginings Postcolonial Geographies and Spatial Practices
Human Rights and Postcolonial Conflicts Postcolonial Cultures and
Digital Humanities Ecocritical Inquiries in Postcolonial Studies
Postcolonialism versus Neoliberalism The Postcolonial World looks
afresh at re-emerging conditions of postcoloniality in the
twenty-first century and draws on a wide range of representational
strategies, cultural practices, material forms, and affective
affiliations. The volume is an essential reading for scholars and
students of postcolonialism.
The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and
extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an
important and timely reappraisal of postcolonialism as an
aesthetic, political, and historical movement, and of postcolonial
studies as a multidisciplinary, transcultural field. Essays map the
terrain of the postcolonial as a global phenomenon at the
intersection of several disciplinary inquiries. Framed by an
introductory chapter and a concluding essay, the eight sections
examine: Affective, Postcolonial Histories Postcolonial Desires
Religious Imaginings Postcolonial Geographies and Spatial Practices
Human Rights and Postcolonial Conflicts Postcolonial Cultures and
Digital Humanities Ecocritical Inquiries in Postcolonial Studies
Postcolonialism versus Neoliberalism The Postcolonial World looks
afresh at re-emerging conditions of postcoloniality in the
twenty-first century and draws on a wide range of representational
strategies, cultural practices, material forms, and affective
affiliations. The volume is an essential reading for scholars and
students of postcolonialism.
Featuring twenty one newly-commissioned essays, "A Companion to the
Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of
Expansion" demonstrates how today's globalization is the result of
a complex and lengthy historical process that had its roots in
England's mercantile and cross-cultural interactions of the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. An innovative collection that
interrogates the global paradigm of our period and offers a new
history of globalization by exploring its influences on English
culture and literature of the early modern period.Moves beyond
traditional notions of Renaissance history mainly as a revival of
antiquity and presents a new perspective on England's mercantile
and cross-cultural interactions with the New and Old Worlds of the
Americas, Africa, and the East, as well with Northern
Europe.Illustrates how twentieth-century globalization was the
result of a lengthy and complex historical process linked to the
emergence of capitalism and colonialismExplores vital topics such
as East-West relations and Islam; visual representations of
cultural 'others'; gender and race struggles within the new
economies and cultures; global drama on the cosmopolitan English
stage, and many more
Now available in paperback, Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory is
an up-to-date guide to contemporary debates in postcolonial studies
and how these shape our understanding of Shakespeare's politics and
poetics. Taking a historical perspective, it covers early modern
discourses of colonialism, 'race', gender and globalization,
through to contemporary intercultural appropriations and global
adaptations of Shakespeare. Showing how the dialogue between
Shakespeare criticism and postcolonial studies has evolved, this
book offers a critical vocabulary that connects contemporary and
early modern cultural struggles. Shakespeare and Postcolonial
Theory also provides guides to further reading and online resources
which make this an essential resource for students and scholars of
Shakespeare.
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