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Serie: Contemporary world writers
GebondenEngels9780719066320
3-8-2009
This book provided the first comprehensive account of the Booker Prize-winning poet and novellist, Michael Ondaatje. It also offers a guide to key issues in postcolonial writing and theory. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719066337
3-8-2009
This book provided the first comprehensive account of the Booker Prize-winning poet and novellist, Michael Ondaatje. It also offers a guide to key issues in postcolonial writing and theory. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719084362
31-10-2014
A major new study of Africa’s most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebe’s work as a novelist, broadcaster and political thinker -- . Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719047312
1-12-1999
Patrick William’s lucid analysis offers the most up-to-date study of Ngugi’s writing, including his most rcent collection of essays. Ngugi is one of the most important novelists on the contemporary world stage, and someone whose name has for many become synonymous with cultural controversy and political struggle. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719055140
28-12-2000
This study considers all of Kazuo Ishiguro's work, exploring the centrality of dignity and displacement in his vision and teasing out the connotations of home and homelessness in his fictions. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719059261
1-11-2007
A comprehensive study of Narayan’s fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels -- . Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719059278
1-11-2007
A comprehensive study of Narayan’s fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels -- . Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719067150
16-9-2004
This study - the first of its kind - situates Rohinton Mistry's writing in its cultural and historical context. It explores key features, such as the legacy of Zoroastrianism, Parsi anglophilia, recent Indian history, and the Persian and European narrative traditions on which Mistry draws to produce his distinctive postcolonial fictions. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719062070
20-1-2005
This is the first study to cover Tan's entire oeuvre, and offers students and general readers an accessible, probing analysis of Tan's highly successful novels within broader debates about the representation of identity, history and reality. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719045592
6-8-1998
This study of the work of Alice Munro explores the appeal of her fictions of small-town Canada with their precise attention to social surfaces and their fascination with local gossip and scandal. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719097645
1-6-2015
This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain may be seen as legacies of this largely ignored, but deeply significant, past. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719070044
1-5-2007
Amitav Ghosh is the first full-length critical monograph on this important post-colonial contemporary writer to be published outside India. It offers in-depth analysis of all Ghosh's major fictional and non-fictional works and is an authoritative introduction to the themes, ideas and contexts that have informed and shaped his work. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719070051
1-5-2007
Amitav Ghosh is the first full-length critical monograph on this important post-colonial contemporary writer to be published outside India. It offers in-depth analysis of all Ghosh's major fictional and non-fictional works and is an authoritative introduction to the themes, ideas and contexts that have informed and shaped his work. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719044489
23-7-1998
An introduction to Toni Morrison's fiction, this text focuses on its engagement with African-American history and the way the traumas of the collective past shape Morrison's work. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719055355
28-6-2001
In this comprehensive critical study of Kureishi's work Bart Moore-Gilbert provides a detailed account of his work to date. The author locates Kureishi's work securely in its historical, social, cultural and critical contexts, as well as providing detailed readings of all the major works. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719068324
1-5-2007
Don Randall's comprehensive study situates acclaimed author David Malouf within the field of contemporary international and psotcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719068331
30-4-2007
Don Randall's comprehensive study situates acclaimed author David Malouf within the field of contemporary international and psotcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719067983
13-11-2003
This is a revised and expanded edition of Woodcock's accessible study, now including detailed readings of Carey's latest novels, 'Jack Maggs' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780719070518
1-11-2007
In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdie’s fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of this major contemporary figure. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781526116796
16-3-2017
A major new study of Africa’s most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebe’s work as a novelist, broadcaster and political thinker -- . Meer