A Life Adrift

Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan

By Azembo Soeda

A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding...

November 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-7103-1337-9 (Routledge)

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The Literary Quest for an American National Character

By Finn Pollard

"What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each of whom...

November 2008 | : 978-0-203-88591-8 (Routledge)

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The Literary Quest for an American National Character

By Finn Pollard

"What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each of whom...

November 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96373-2 (Routledge)

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Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa

A Study of Contemporary Fiction

By Yulisa Amadu Maddy, Donnarae MacCann

In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann once again come...

November 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99390-6 (Routledge)

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Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

Origins

By Justine Tally

This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the...

November 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32045-0 (Routledge)

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Caliban's Voice

The Transformation of English in Post-Colonial Literatures

By 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...

November 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47044-5 (Routledge)

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The Child That Haunts Us

Symbols and Images in Fairytale and Miniature Literature

By Susan Hancock

The Child That Haunts Us focuses on the symbolic use of the child archetype through the exploration of miniature characters from the realms of children’s...

November 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44776-8 (Routledge)

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Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture

By Marisa Parham

Looking at texts including Jean Toomer’s Cane, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, James Baldwin’s Another Country, and Beat poetry by Bob Kaufmann, in this original study, Parham describes...

November 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99094-3 (Routledge)

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Visualizing Africa in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Accounts

By Leila Koivunen

This study examines and explains how British explorers visualized the African interior in the latter part of the nineteenth century, providing the first sustained analysis...

November 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99001-1 (Routledge)

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Originality and Intellectual Property in the French and English Enlightenment

Edited by Reginald McGinnis

Are legal concepts of intellectual property and copyright related to artistic notions of invention and originality? Do literary and legal scholars have anything to learn...

November 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96288-9 (Routledge)

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