The Routledge Companion To Postcolonial Studies

Edited by John McLeod

The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies offers a unique and up-to-date mapping of the postcolonial world, and is composed of essays as well as shorter...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32497-7 (Routledge)

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The Fantasy of Family

Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal

By Elizabeth Thiel

The myth of the Victorian family remains a pervasive influence within a contemporary Britain that perceives itself to be in social crisis. Nostalgic for a...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98035-7 (Routledge)

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Representing Africa in Children's Literature

Old and New Ways of Seeing

By Vivian Yenika-Agbaw

Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97468-4 (Routledge)

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Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography

By David Huddart

Cultural theory has often been criticized for covert Eurocentric and universalist tendencies. Its concepts and ideas are implicitly applicable to everyone, ironing over any individuality...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35342-7 (Routledge)

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By Laurel Plapp

Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95718-2 (Routledge)

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Pacific Traversals Online

By M. I. Franklin

The dotcom boom may well have come and gone but information and communication technologies (ICTs) are now an inescapable part of both everyday life and...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45990-7 (Routledge)

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Stephen Greenblatt

By Mark Robson

Stephen Greenblatt is the most important exponent of 'new historicism', a dynamic critical movement which rejects the traditional reliance on individual canonical texts, exploring a...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34385-5 (Routledge)

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The Routledge Companion to Gothic

Edited by Catherine Spooner, Emma McEvoy

In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential guide explores the world of...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39843-5 (Routledge)

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By Randall Martin

This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96115-8 (Routledge)

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Contemporary Arab Women Writers

Cultural Expression in Context

By Anastasia Valassopoulos

This book engages with contemporary Arab women writers from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. In spite of Edward Said’s groundbreaking reappraisal of the uneven relationship...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35355-7 (Routledge)

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