Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

✍ Ato Quayson 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric of

Tragedy And Postcolonial Literature

📁 Tragedy And Postcolonial Literature

✍ Ato Quayson 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric of

Medieval Literature and Postcolonial Stu

📁 Medieval Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonial Literary Studies)

✍ Lisa Lampert-Weissig 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Edinburgh University Press 🌐 English

In this extensive introduction to a rich new area of research, Lisa Lamper-Weissig examines the historical connections between postcolonial and medieval studies, conducting new readings of key medieval texts from different European traditions. These include Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Bernar

Victorian Literature and Postcolonial St

📁 Victorian Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonial Literary Studies)

✍ Patrick Brantlinger 📂 Library 📅 2010 🌐 English

Adopting a postcolonial perspective, this survey traces the influence of the British Empire on nineteenth-century British literature, closely reading the work of several major Victorian authors: Dickens, Eliot, Charlotte Bront?, Disraeli, Tennyson, Yeats, Kipling, and Conrad. The book discusses pro-

Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial

📁 Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature

✍ Robert Spencer 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan 🌐 English

Via 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 institut

Modernist Literature and Postcolonial St

📁 Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies

✍ Rajeev S. Patke 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Edinburgh University Press 🌐 English

Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studiesNeither modernity nor colonalism (and likewise, neither postmodernity nor postcoloniality) can be properly understood without recognition of th