Bücher der Reihe Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Postcolonialism is used as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevence to the Caribbean experience.

Examines the aesthetic portrayal of tourism in postcolonial literatures. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in states, this title argues that postcolonial writers not only dramatize the industry's most exploitative operations but also provide blueprints toward sustainable tourism futures.

Examining prose, poetry and drama by writers including Achebe, Naipaul, Coetzee, Walcott, Krog, Fugard, and versions of Shakespeare, this title pursues the often ambiguous paths of nostalgia as it has been represented within and beyond Europe.

Explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. This work argues that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape.

This text provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves.

Focusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced, this book presents an analysis of eight leading Sri Lankan writers: Michael Ondaatje, Romesh Gunasekera, Shyam Selvadurai, A Sivanandan, Jean Arasanayagam, Carl Muller, James Goonewardene, and Punyakante Wijenaike. It interrogates the discourses of territoriality and boundary marking.

Defines versions of the transnational in their historical and cultural specificity. This title contextualizes historical and contemporary understandings of the fluid term 'transnational', which vary in relation to the disciplines involved. It aims to rediscover distinctions between transnationalisms and cosmopolitanisms.

Includes the essays that discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir or drama. This book incorporates arguments about trauma and resistance in order to establish different dimensions of healing.

A study that uses critical theory to investigate the history of how people have thought about the antipodes - the places and people on the other side of the world - from ancient Greece to present-day literature and digital media.

Analyzes authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera to make a materialist study of the relation between paradise myths and the ideologies and economies of colonialism and neo-imperialism in literature from Mexico, Zanzibar and Sri Lanka.

Presents the two important fields of postcolonial studies and life writing.