The Post-Colonial Studies Reader
10 best books like The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (Bill Ashcroft): Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice, A Handbook to Literature, Critical Terms for Literary Study, Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things, Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays, The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume, The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology, Nation and Narration, My Century
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
| Author | Mahmood Mamdani |
| ISBN | 0691027935 |
In this provocative analysis of the obstacles to democratization in post-independence Africa, Mahmood Mandani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy: a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity...
| Author | Loretta J. Ross |
| ISBN | 0896087298 |
“If you have come to help me, please go away. But, if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, let us work together.”—Lila Watson, Aboriginal Activist
Vibrant. Strong. Fierce. Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women...
| Author | William Harmon |
| ISBN | 0130127310 |
It is a handy book that can be read for pleasure. However, the publisher really doesn't need to update it every 3 years to force poor students to buy the new editions. In this 10th edition the editor admitted there was little substantial he could add. In fact, he mentioned his children suggested three new...
| Author | Frank Lentricchia |
| ISBN | 0226472035 |
Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory—giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six...
| Author | Ann Laura Stoler |
| ISBN | 0822316900 |
Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to this key work, Ann Laura Stoler examines...
| Author | Giselle Liza Anatol |
| ISBN | 0313320675 |
J. K. Rowling achieved astounding commercial success with her series of novels about Harry Potter, the boy-wizard who finds out about his magical powers on the morning of his eleventh birthday. The books' incredible popularity, and the subsequent likelihood that they are among this generation's...
| Author | Ephraim Katz |
| ISBN | 0060742143 |
A completely revised and udpated edition of the classic film reference which has sold nearly 150,000 copies in its previous editions.
Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed Bible of the movie industry....
| Author | Fritz Stern |
| ISBN | 0520026268 |
This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbein, and Moeller van den Bruck-their active lives...
| Author | Homi K. Bhabha |
| ISBN | 0415014832 |
This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic. Based on archival work it will demonstrate how members of the medical profession successfully manipulated their pre-1945 past in order...
| Author | Aleksander Wat |
| ISBN | 1590170652 |
In My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentation --in...
| Author | Patricia Bizzell |
| ISBN | 0312148399 |
As anthologies go, this one isn't here to fuck around. The binding is horrifyingly stubborn, the pages are Bible-thin, and the text is tiny and in two columns. Despite a maybe unavoidable Western bias, Bizzell and Herzburg cover an admirably comprehensive swath of the rhetorical field, with generous...
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
| Author | Ania Loomba |
| ISBN | 0415350646 |
Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies.
Ania Loomba deftly introduces and examines:
key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism
the relationship...
| Author | Michael Billig |
| ISBN | 0803975252 |
Michael Billig presents a major challenge to orthodox conceptions of nationalism in this elegantly written book. While traditional theorizing has tended to the focus on extreme expressions of nationalism, the author turns his attention to the everyday, less visible forms which are neither exotic...
| Author | Leela Gandhi |
| ISBN | 0231112734 |
Postcolonial Theory is a critical introduction to the burgeoning field of postcolonial studies. Leela Gandhi is the first to clearly map out this field in terms of its wider philosophical and intellectual context, drawing important connections between postcolonial theory and poststructuralism,...
| Author | Lana A. Whited |
| ISBN | 0826215491 |
Now available in paper, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter is the first book-length analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. A significant portion of the book explores the Harry Potter series' literary...
| Author | Chris Horrocks |
| ISBN | 1874166544 |
Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as "the most important event of thought in our century." As a philosopher, historian, and political activist he most certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim justified? Introducing Foucault places Foucault's...
An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization
| Author | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
| ISBN | 0674051831 |
During the past twenty years, the world’s most renowned critical theorist—the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studies—has experienced a radical reorientation in her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial and postcolonial, no longer sufficient...
| Author | Ellen Moers |
| ISBN | 0195035828 |
This groundbreaking 1976 work of feminist literary criticism is exactly the kind of book I like: erudite, wide-ranging, well written, and frequently very witty. Moers examines English, American, and French women writers from the eighteenth century (plus seventeenth century Anne Bradstreet)...
Beginning Postcolonialism (Beginnings)
| Author | John McLeod |
| ISBN | 0719052092 |
Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, expanding and challenging areas of literary and cultural studies today. Designed especially for those studying the topic for the first time, Beginning Postcolonialism introduces the major areas of concern in a clear, accessible, and organized...
| Author | Grace Chang |
| ISBN | 0896086178 |
Contents
Introduction
Breeding Ignorance, Breeding Hatred
Chapter 1: Undocumented Latinas: The New Employable Mother
Chapter 2: The Nanny Visa: The Bracero Program Revisited
Chapter 3: Immigrants and Workfare Workers: Emplyable but "Not Employed"
Chapter 4:...
Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement
| Author | Jennifer Nelson |
| ISBN | 0814758274 |
While most people believe that the movement to secure voluntary reproductive control for women centered solely on abortion rights, for many women abortion was not the only, or even primary, focus.
Jennifer Nelson tells the story of the feminist struggle for legal abortion and reproductive...
| Author | Drew Hayden Taylor |
| ISBN | 1553651375 |
Humor has always been an essential part of North American aboriginal culture. This fact remained unnoticed by most settlers, however, since non-aboriginals just didn’t get the joke.
For most of written history, a stern, unyielding profile of “the Indian” dominated the popular mainstream...
| Author | Roger Hardy |
| ISBN | 0190623209 |
The conflicts and crises of today's Middle East are rooted in the colonial era. To better understand them, we need to acknowledge how Western imperialism negatively shaped the region and its destiny in the half-century between World War I and the happenings of the Cold War. That is the challenging argument...
| Author | Linda Hutcheon |
| ISBN | 0415967953 |
Renowned literary scholar Linda Hutcheon explores the ubiquity of adaptations in all their various media incarnations and challenges their constant critical denigration. Adaptation, Hutcheon argues, has always been a central mode of the story-telling imagination and deserves to be studied...
