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  • THE PRODUCTIVITY OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS IN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE
    WEHRS, DONALD R.
    This volume explores the possibilities and potentialities of “negative” affect in postcolonial literature and literary theory, featuring work on postcolonial studies, First Nations studies, cognitive cultural studies, cognitive historicism, reader response theory, postcolonial feminist studies, and trauma studies. The chapters of this work investigate negative affect in all its...

    $1,300.00

  • ETHICAL SENSE AND LITERARY SIGNIFICANCE
    DONALD R. WEHRS
    This study blends together ethical philosophy, neurocognitive-evolutionary studies, and literary theory to explore how imaginative discourse addresses a distinctively human deep sociality, and by doing so helps shape cultural and literary history. Deep sociality, arising from an improbable evolutionary history, both entwines and leaves non-reconciled what is felt to be signific...

    $1,160.00

  • CULTURAL MEMORY
    DONALD R. WEHRS
    Bringing together neuroscientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars in cross-disciplinary exploration of the topic of cultural memory, this collection moves from seminal discussions of the latest findings in neuroscience to variegated, specific case studies of social practices and artistic expressions. This volume highlights what can be gained from drawing on broad in...

    $1,280.00

  • PRE-COLONIAL AFRICA IN COLONIAL AFRICAN NARRATIVES
    DONALD R. WEHRS
    In his study of the origins of political reflection in twentieth-century African fiction, Donald Wehrs examines a neglected but important body of African texts written in colonial (English and French) and indigenous (Hausa and Yoruba) languages. He explores pioneering narrative representations of pre-colonial African history and society in seven texts: Casely Hayford's Ethiopia...

    $1,600.00

  • ETHICS AND LITERARY WORLDMAKING
    DONALD R. WEHRS
    Considering poetry, narrative, and performances from diverse oral societies and the earliest scribal cultures, Ethics and Literary Worldmaking traces ways that both oral and written genres participate in communal shaping and reshaping of affectivity, sociality, deliberation, and evaluation. The study views delineation and revision of shared imagined “worlds” as itself an evolut...

    $1,220.00