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Para leer al Pato Donald Para leer al Pato Donald Ariel Dorfmann,Armand Mattelart,Ariel Dorfman,Ariel Dorfman First published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third printing was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the… OL1003890W
The Imperialist Imaginary The Imperialist Imaginary John R. Eperjesi In a groundbreaking work of "New Americanist" studies, John R. Eperjesi explores the cultural and economic formation of the Unites States relationship to China and the Pacific Rim in the nineteenth a… OL11634725W
Sitting in Darkness Sitting in Darkness Peter Schmidt Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards i… OL1452983W
Debunking the Myths of Colonization Debunking the Myths of Colonization Samar Attar Debunking the Myths of Colonization examines Salman Rushdie's thesis on the paradoxical nature of colonialism and its horrific impact on the psyche of the colonized. It probes Frantz Fanon's theories… OL15184681W
Defoe's America Defoe's America Dennis Todd "The Americas appear as an evocative setting in more than half of Daniel Defoe's novels, and often offer a new beginning for his characters. In the first full-length study of Defoe and colonialism, D… OL15603302W
The ambivalence of imperial discourse The ambivalence of imperial discourse Aaron M. Kahn A new reading of Miguel de Cervantes' play 'La Destrucción de Numancia' (c. 1583), analysing the work in relation to theories of empire in 16th century Spain, in the context of plays written immediat… OL15610896W
An Image of Africa An Image of Africa Chinua Achebe "Beautifully written yet highly controversial, "An Image of Africa" asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness" only serve… OL15747369W
Sympathy and India in British literature, 1770-1830 Sympathy and India in British literature, 1770-1830 Andrew Rudd "India exerted a powerful grip over the imagination of British authors during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of their engagement with the Subcontinent? This study argues that depic… OL16151636W
Hemispheric imaginings Hemispheric imaginings Gretchen Murphy Summary:In 1823, President James Monroe announced that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future European colonization and that the United States would protect the Americas as a space destined … OL17925888W
Close encounters of the invasive kind Close encounters of the invasive kind Sarah Seymore Before the breakthrough of postcolonial studies, British science-fiction authors already saw the opportunity to discuss political and ethical issues of imperialism by projecting human history and beh… OL24158910W
The long recessional The long recessional Gilmour, David "Rudyard Kipling was a unique figure in British history, a great writer and a great imperial icon. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he added more phrases to the language than any man since Shak… OL3084519W
Captivity and Sentiment Captivity and Sentiment Michelle Burnham In a radically new interpretation and synthesis of highly popular 18th- and 19th-century genres, Michelle Burnham examines the literature of captivity, and, using Homi Bhabha's concept of interstitia… OL3352792W
Imperial Masochism Imperial Masochism John Kucich "In Imperial Masochism, John Kucich reveals the central role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. Pl… OL3472497W
Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Ma… OL38663W
Ngugi wa Thiong'o Ngugi wa Thiong'o Simon Gikandi A study of the works of Kenyan dramatist and novelist Ngugu wa Thiong'o explores the development of his major novels and plays against a background of colonialsim and its aftermath in Kenya. OL481187W
Sexual antipodes Sexual antipodes Pamela Cheek "The title refers to a premise in utopian and exoticist fiction about the southern portion of the globe: sexual order defines the character of the state. The book begins by examining how the idea of … OL5968789W
George Eliot and Victorian attitudes to racial diversity George Eliot and Victorian attitudes to racial diversity Brenda McKay This work is a broadly focussed & intensively researched study of the multifarious ways in which the Victorians looked at discourses on race & how these affected people's daily lives: Slavery, 19th-c… OL6036686W
A cultural studies approach to two exotic citizen romances by Thomas Heywood A cultural studies approach to two exotic citizen romances by Thomas Heywood Joseph Courtland "Modern literary scholars have, for the most part, devoted little critical attention to that remarkable group of romance dramas featuring citizen heroes that flourished during the late Elizabethan pe… OL6210428W
Shakespeare jungle fever Shakespeare jungle fever Arthur L. Little "This book takes Shakespeare's plays as a site for studying the specter of interracial sex - of a "jungle fever" - in early modern England's envisionings of itself. Shakespeare's works here assume th… OL7798052W
The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing Debbie Lisle To what extent do best-selling travel books, such as those by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Bruce Chatwin and Michael Palin, tell us as much about world politics as newspaper articles, policy documents … OL8332632W
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