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    1 507,-

    Far from suggesting that we replace theories of an omnipresent 'end of history' with a traditional, single, diachronic timeline, this book encourages the development of such a timeline's rigorous inverse: a synchronic, multi-faceted and multi-temporal history of the contemporary in literature, and thus of contemporary global literatures.

  • - The Aesthetics of Commodity Frontiers, 1890-1950
    av Michael Niblett
    1 028 - 1 074,-

    Located at the intersection of world-literary studies and the environmental humanities, this book analyses how fiction and poetry respond to the ecological transformations entailed by commodity frontiers.

  • - On Catastrophic Realism
    av Sourit Bhattacharya
    662 - 681,-

  • - Spaces of Transition
    av Jane Poyner
    669 - 678,-

    The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy, little in South Africa's socio-economic reality has actually changed.

  • - Contemporary Literary Narratives
    av Treasa De Loughry
    1 028,-

    This book examines how contemporary global novels by Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, Rana Dasgupta and Rachel Kushner have evolved new aesthetics to represent global economic and ecological crises.

  • av Filippo Menozzi
    672 - 680,-

    Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia.

  • - Reading Transnational Cultural Commodities
     
    1 218,-

    This book is about how the marketing of transnational cultural commodities capitalizes on difference and its appeal for cosmopolitan consumers in our postmodern globalized world.

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    1 466,-

    Using a world-systems perspective for cultural studies, the essays in this collection examine cultural productions from across the neoliberal world-system, bringing together works that might have in the past been separated into postcolonial studies and Anglo-American Studies.

  • - Polyglot Passages
    av James Reay Williams
    955,-

    Drawing principally upon four authors - Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, Wilson Harris and Junot Diaz - this study argues that a close engagement with the novel reveals a series of ways to apprehend, depict and theorise various kinds of language diversity.

  • - Located Reading
    av Jenni Ramone
    1 651,-

    This book asks what reading means in India, Nigeria, the UK, and Cuba, through close readings of literary texts from postcolonial, spatial, architectural, cartographic, materialist, trauma, and gender perspectives.

  • - Reading Transnational Cultural Commodities
     
    1 259,-

    This book is about how the marketing of transnational cultural commodities capitalizes on difference and its appeal for cosmopolitan consumers in our postmodern globalized world.

  • - Barbarisms in Spanish and American Literature
    av Laura Lonsdale
    1 147 - 1 220,-

    This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature.

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    1 362,-

    Far from suggesting that we replace theories of an omnipresent 'end of history' with a traditional, single, diachronic timeline, this book encourages the development of such a timeline's rigorous inverse: a synchronic, multi-faceted and multi-temporal history of the contemporary in literature, and thus of contemporary global literatures.

  • - Postcolonial Literary Economics
    av Melissa Kennedy
    1 074 - 1 466,-

  • - Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century
    av Regenia Gagnier
    1 074,-

    Based in extensive experience in collaborative, multilingual, interdisciplinary networks, the book synthesizes existing theoretical scholarship, provides original case studies of world-historical Victorian and modern writers, and articulates a new interdisciplinary methodology for literary studies in a global context.

  • - Customs Officers or Smugglers?
     
    1 174,-

    This book sets the grounds for a new approach exploring cultural mediators as key figures in literary and cultural history.

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