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Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism
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Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, TransnationalismAustralian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English.
 
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Tags: postcolonial, literary, field, diversifying, rapidly, Australian, Racism, Transnationalism, Literature, Postcolonialism
The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere
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The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from ElsewhereThe Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere

'This is a fascinating, diverse and rich book which combines across the Gothic and the postcolonial in its concern with varieties of colonial and imperial Gothic 'Other', at different times, introducing a focus on the "war on terror" as a topical "hook."
 
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Understanding Postcolonialism (Understanding Movements in Modern Thought)
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Understanding Postcolonialism (Understanding Movements in Modern Thought)Understanding Postcolonialism (Understanding Movements in Modern Thought)

Postcolonialism offers challenging and provocative ways of thinking about colonial and neocolonial power, about self and other, and about the discourses that perpetuate postcolonial inequality and violence. Much of the seminal work in postcolonialism has been shaped by currents in philosophy, notably Marxism and ethics. "Understanding Postcolonialism" examines the philosophy of postcolonialism in order to reveal the often conflicting systems of thought which underpin it. In so doing, the book presents a reappraisal of the major postcolonial thinkers of the twentieth century.
 
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Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
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Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction

Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial challenge to western dominance. This lively and innovative account of both the history and key debates of postcolonialism discusses its importance as an historical condition, and as a means of changing the way we think about the world. Key concepts and issues are considered, with reference to particular cultural and historical examples, such as the status of aboriginal people, cultural nomadism, Western feminism, the innovative fiction of Garcia Marquez ..
 
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Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)
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Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)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 the White Man's 'imperial fantasies', and the ways in which the many metropolitan discourses to which Burton contributed drew upon and reinforced an intimate connection between fantasy and power in the space of Empire.
 
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