This book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels comprehend and construct colonized peoples, fashion French identity in the context of colonialism, and record the encounter between Eu..
Merging concepts from business studies, postcolonial studies, queer studies, and literary and cultural studies in an informed way, Critical Branding: Postcolonial Studies and the Market sets on a thorough theoretical footing a range of categories which, while increasingly current, remain surprisingl..
A compelling new interpretation of how we understand race, using Lacanian analysis to explore the visual discrimination we make between races, and including close readings of literary and film texts...
Working with processes of translocation enabled Edward Said to point out interdependence and complementarity across geographical borders and disciplinary boundaries while recognizing cultural difference and the distinct historical experiences of colonizer and colonized. This book brings into focus S..
Modern ideas of freedom and human rights have been repeatedly contested and are hotly debated at the beginning of the third millennium in response to new theories, needs, and changes in the world today. This volume offers culturally diverse responses to the contemporary idea of ‘freedom’ from the li..
The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the contributors to this volume aim to incorporate arguments..
This book examines current trends in the Environmental Humanities, focusing on how globalization and imperialism challenge approaches to environmental issues, and visiting narrative’s role in shaping ideas about problems like climate change, militarism, deforestation, toxicity, and agricultural reso..
This book examines current trends in the Environmental Humanities, focusing on how globalization and imperialism challenge approaches to environmental issues, and visiting narrative’s role in shaping ideas about problems like climate change, militarism, deforestation, toxicity, and agricultural reso..