Book Series in Literature

Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

New & Published Titles:

The Idea of the Antipodes

Place, People, and Voices

By Matthew Boyd Goldie

This study uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes—the places and people on the other side of…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99906-9 (Routledge)

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Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives

Violence and Violation

Edited by Sorcha Gunne, Zoe Brigley Thompson

The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-80608-4 (Routledge)

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Locating Transnational Ideals

Edited by Walter Goebel, Saskia Schabio

This volume defines versions of the transnational in their historical and cultural specificity. By "locating," the contributors contextualize historical and contemporary understandings of the fluid…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-87136-5 (Routledge)

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Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization

Exploiting Eden

By Sharae Deckard

This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses paradise discourse in a wide range of writing from Mexico, Zanzibar, and Sri Lanka, including novels…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99739-3 (Routledge)

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Postcolonial Life-Writing

Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation

By Bart Moore-Gilbert

Postcolonial Life-Writing is the first attempt to offer a sustained critique of this increasingly visible and influential field of cultural production.

Bart Moore-Gilbert considers the relationship…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44300-5 (Routledge)

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Postcolonial Pacific Writing

Representations of the Body

By Michelle Keown

This major new interdisciplinary study focuses on the representation of the body in the work of eight of Polynesia's most significant contemporary writers. Drawing on…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55050-5 (Routledge)

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Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa

By James Graham

In this volume, Graham investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s to the present. This comparative…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99581-8 (Routledge)

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Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton

Power Play of Empire

By Ben Grant

By engaging closely with the work of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the iconic nineteenth-century imperial spy, explorer, anthropologist and translator, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton explores…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45086-7 (Routledge)

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Transnationalism in Southern African Literature

Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture

By Stefan Helgesson

Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46239-6 (Routledge)

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Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific

Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction

By Susan Y. Najita

In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46885-5 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Generating the Hybrid City: Women Writers Create Urban Space
By Isabel Carrera Suárez
To be published May 1st 2011

Terrorism and Insurgency in Indian-English Literature: Writing Violence and Empire
By Alex Tickell
To be published May 1st 2011

The Postcolonial Secular: God and Country in South Asian Anglophone Fiction
By Manav Ratti
To be published May 1st 2011

Postapartheid Literature: Mourning and the Reinvention of Community
By Sam Durrant
To be published February 1st 2011

The Postcolonial Gramsci
Edited by Neelam Srivastava, Baidik BHATTACHARYA
To be published November 30th 2010

The Postcolonial City and Its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay
By Rashmi Varma
To be published November 15th 2010

Postcolonial Tourism: Literature, Culture, and Environment
By Anthony Carrigan
To be published November 15th 2010

Publishing the Postcolonial: Anglophone West African and Caribbean Writing in the UK 1948-1968
By Gail Low
To be published October 26th 2010

Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation and Memory
By Dennis Walder
To be published September 27th 2010

Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature: Remitting the Text
By Kezia Page
To be published August 17th 2010

Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present
By S. Salih
To be published August 16th 2010