Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: bill ashcroft

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  • POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
    BILL ASHCROFT / GARETH GRIFFITHS / HELEN TIFFIN
    Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize postcolonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition contains more than 30 new entries, including: Anthropocene ...

    $1,040.00

  • THE POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES READER
    BILL ASHCROFT, GARETH GRIFFITHS AND HELEN TIFFIN
    The most comprehensive collection of postcolonial writing theory and criticism, this third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 125 extracts from key works in the field. Leading, as well as lesser-known figures in the fields of writing, theory and criticism contribute to this inspiring body of work that includes sections on nationalism, hybridity, diaspora...

    $1,100.00

  • UTOPIANISM IN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES
    BILL ASHCROFT
    Postcolonial Studies is more often found looking back at the past, but in this brand new book, Bill Ashcroft looks to the future and the irrepressible demands of utopia. The concept of utopia – whether playful satire or a serious proposal for an ideal community – is examined in relation to the postcolonial and the communities with which it engages. Studying a very broad range o...

    $1,160.00

  • POST-COLONIAL TRANSFORMATION
    BILL ASHCROFT
    In his new book, Bill Ashcroft gives us a revolutionary view of the ways in which post-colonial societies have responded to colonial control. The most comprehensive analysis of major features of post-colonial studies ever compiled, Post-Colonial Transformation: * demonstrates how widespread the strategy of transformation has been * investigates political and literary resistance...

    $1,160.00

  • CALIBAN'S VOICE
    BILL ASHCROFT
    In Shakespeare’s Tempest, Caliban says to Miranda and Prospero: "...you taught me language, and my profit on’t Is, I know how to curse. " With this statement, he gives voice to an issue that lies at the centre of post-colonial studies. Can Caliban own Prospero’s language? Can he use it to do more than curse? Caliban’s Voice examines the ways in which post-colonial literatures h...

    $1,160.00

  • EDWARD SAID
    BILL ASHCROFT / PAL AHLUWALIA
    Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of the landmark study Orientalism, a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies, and for his controversial journalism on the Palestinian political situation. Looking at the context and the impact of Said's scholarship and journalism, this book examines Said's key ideas, in...

    $800.00

  • THE EMPIRE WRITES BACK
    BILL ASHCROFT / GARETH GRIFFITHS / HELEN TIFFIN
    The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of liter...

    $980.00

  • TRANSNATION
    BILL ASHCROFT
    Transnation: Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature and Culture offers a fresh and thought-provoking exploration of transnationalism, focusing on the mobility of populations who may not physically leave their national borders, but whose potential for movement subtly challenges the power and authority of the state. Drawing from postcolonial studies, it examines how mar...

    $1,160.00