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Beyond the Postcolonial World Englishes Literature Emma Dawson Varughese, Sessional Lecturer in Humanities, Keele University, UK
'A highly original book: it makes a clear argument about the role of the postcolonial, it uses an innovative range of methodologies and most importantly, it introduces many writers to a global audience for the first time. It is a model for going 'beyond the postcolonial''. - Professor Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction From Faulkner to Morrison John N. Duvall, Professor of English, Purdue University, USA; Author of Faulkner’s Marginal Couple: Invisible Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities
With the backdrop of new global powers, this volume interrogates the state of writing in English. Strongly interdisciplinary, it challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of postcolonial literary theory. An insistence on fieldwork and linguistics makes this book scene-changing in its approach to understanding and reading emerging literature in English.
Explores a form of literary racial passing that has gone largely unnoticed in fictional characters who present a white face to the world even as they unconsciously perform cultural blackness, such as in the work of William Faulkner among others, revealing that being merely Caucasian was insufficient to claim Southern Whiteness.
Contents: Preface / Acknowledgements / Introduction: Being beyond / Methodology and Overview of Findings: Stories as Data/ Cameroon: (Fr)Anglophone? / Nigeria: Generation ‘Y’ / Uganda: The Power of The Pen Kenya: Rifts Apart / Malaysia: Bahasa Manglish(es) / Singapore: Mad About Singlish / India: Emerging Economy, Emerging Literature / Conclusion: Beyond This / References / Index
Contents: Preface: White Face, Black Performance / Artificial Negroes, White Homelessness, and Diaspora Consciousness / William Faulkner, Whiteface, and Black Identity / Flannery O’Connor, (G)race, and Colored Identity / John Barth, Blackface, and Invisible Identity / Dorothy Allison, ‘Nigger Trash,’ and Miscegenated Identity / Black Writing and Whiteface
August 2012 Hardback
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British Crime Film Subverting the Social Order Barry Forshaw, Writer and Journalist specializing in crime fiction and cinema
Presenting a social history of British crime film, this book focuses on the strategies used in order to address more radical notions surrounding class, politics, sex, delinquency, violence and censorship. Spanning post-war crime cinema to present-day 'Mockney' productions, it contextualizes the films and identifies important and neglected works. Contents: A Social History of the Crime Film / The Age of Austerity: Post-war Crime Movies / Class and Crime: Social Divisions / Between Left and Right: Politics and Individuals / Heritage Britain / Shame of a Nation: Juvenile Delinquents and Exploitation / The New Violence: The Loss of Innocence / Scourging the Unacceptable: Censorship Battles / Metropolitan Murder: London / The Regions / Breaking Taboos: Sex and the Crime Film / Corporate Crime: Curtains for the Maverick / Mockney Menace: The New Wave / The Age of Acquisition: New Crime / 21st Century Hybrids / The Directors: Makers of Key Crime Films / APPENDIX I: TV Crime / APPENDIX II: Crime and Espionage / Index August 2012 Hardback Paperback
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Crime Files Series Editor: Clive Bloom
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