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  • Burden or Benefit?

    Imperial Benevolence and Its Legacies

    Edited by Helen Gilbert, Chris Tiffin ...
    Essays on philanthropy, power, and the continuing influence of the British Empire on humanitarian efforts in today's world.In the name of benevolence, philanthropy, and humanitarian aid, individuals, groups, and nations have sought to assist others and to redress forms of suffering and deprivation. Yet the inherent imbalances of power between the giver and the recipient of this benevolence have ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Postcolonial Plays

    An Anthology

    Edited by Helen Gilbert ...
    This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with imperialism and its aftermath. It includes work from Canada, the Carribean, South and West Africa, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Sightlines

    Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre

    by Helen Gilbert ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre asserts the centrality of theater to the ongoing negotiations of the Australian context. By exploring ways in which ideas about race, gender, and nation are expressed in concrete theatrical contexts, the performative qualities of theatrical representation are revealed as compelling, important sites of critique. Helen Gilbert ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent

    by Dany Adone, Katrin Althans, Eva Bischoff, Melanie Brück, Norbert Finzsch, Ken Gelder, Helen Gilbert, Anna Haebich, Victoria Herche, Bentley James, David Kern, Catherine Laudine, Philip Mead, Anke Tonnaer, Rachael Weaver, Carsten Wergin, Sandra Williams, Alexis Wright, C.A. Cranston ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent investigates literary, historical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives in connection with activist engagements. The necessary cross-fertilization between these different perspectives throughout this volume emerges in the resonances between essays exploring recurring concerns ranging from biodiversity and preservation policies to the ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Diasporas

    Concepts, Intersections, Identities

    by Jeffrey Lesser, Homi Bhabha, Peter Mandaville, Terrance Lyons, Claire Dwyer, Manuel Vasquez, Jaine Beswick, Karim H Karim, Doctor Daniela Berghahn, Ian Cook, Tariq Modood, Toshio Watanbe, Paul Gilroy, Doctor Larissa Remennick, Gerd Baumann, Professor Martin Baumann, David Richardson, Professor Robin Cohen, Ulirke Meinhof, Sara Wills, Professor Flemming Christiansen, Junior Professor Doctor Kira Kosnick, Doctor Dibyesh Anand, Sanaz Raji, Anastasia Christou, Juan Flores, Madeleine Wong, Professor Russell King, Pnina Werbner, Susheila Nasta, Doctor James Procter, Helen Gilbert, Victoria Bernal, Avtar Brah, Khachig Tololyan, Peggy Levitt, Marie Gillespie, Philip Crang, Mark Johnson, Nicholas Van Hear, Virinder Kalra, Professor Graham Huggan, Steven Vertovec, Vijay Agnew, Simon Turner, Nadje Sadig Al-Ali ...
    Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora.Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping the field, such as migration, ethnicity, post-colonialism and cosmopolitanism. It also examines key ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The Social Work of Narrative

    Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary

    by Gareth Griffiths, Philip Mead, Joseph R. Slaughter, Chantal Zabus, Mike Hill, Kieran Dolin, David Trigger, Richard Martin0, Nicholas Jose1, Asha Varadharajan2, Gillian Whitlock3, Russell West-Pavlov4, Ned Curthoys5, Golnar Nabizadeh6, Helen Gilbert7, Ethan Blue8, Jane Lydon9, Sukhmani Khorana0, Michael R. Griffiths1 ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in World Literature
    This book addresses the ways in which a range of representational forms have influenced and helped implement the project of human rights across the world, and seeks to show how public discourses on law and politics grow out of and are influenced by the imaginative representations of human rights. It draws on a multi-disciplinary approach, using historical, literary, anthropological, visual arts, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Post-Colonial Drama

    Theory, Practice, Politics

    by Helen Gilbert, Joanne Tompkins ...
    Post-Colonial Drama is the first full-length study to address the ways in which performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism. It brings to bear the latest theoretical approaches from post-colonial and performance studies to a range of plays from Australia, Africa, Canada, New Zealand, the Caribbean and other former colonial regions. Some of the major topics ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

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  • The Empire Writes Back

    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

    by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    Series series New Accents
    The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism

    Edited by Sarah Gamble ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    Approachable for general readers as well as for students in women's studies related courses at all levels, this invaluable guide follows the unique Companion format in combining over a dozen in-depth background chapters with more than 400 A-Z dictionary entries. The background chapters are written by major figures in the field of feminist studies, and include thorough coverage of the history of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Haunted Nations

    The Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalisms

    by Sneja Gunew ...
    Series series Transformations
    Postcolonialism has attracted a large amount of interest in cultural theory, but the adjacent area of multiculturalism has not been scrutinised to quite the same extent. In this innovative new book, Sneja Gunew sets out to interrogate the ways in which the transnational discourse of multiculturalism may be related to the politics of race and indigeneity, grounding her discussion in a variety of ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Gender Space Architecture

    An Interdisciplinary Introduction

    Edited by Iain Borden, Barbara Penner, Jane Rendell ...
    Series series Architext
    This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured and with numerous introductory essays, it guides the reader through theoretical and multi-disciplinary texts to direct considerations of gender in relation to particular architectural sites, projects and ideas. This ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Drifting - Architecture and Migrancy

    Edited by Stephen Cairns ...
    Series series Architext
    To dwell in these globalizing times requires us to negotiate increasingly palpable flows - of capital, ideas, images, goods, technology, and people. Such flows seem to pressurize, breach and sometimes even disaggregate the places we always imagined to be distinctive and stable. This book is focussed on the interaction of two elements within this contemporary situation. The first is the very idea ... Read more

    $87.99 USD