"Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studiesNeither modernity nor colonalism (and likewise, neither postmodernity nor postcoloniality) can be properly understood without recognition of their intertwined development. This book interprets modernity as an asymmetrically global phenomenon complexly connected to the course of Western imperialism, and demonstr ..."
"'Radical, intrepid, compendious, /A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures/, goes far toward restoring 'postcolonialism' to its historical premises by resituating that imperial project in its much changed and still controversial cartographies. It is Marlow's map of the 'heart of darkness' drastically redrawn: what was once the 'vast amount of red,' a 'deuce of a lot of blue,' a 'little green,' those 'smears of orange,' and the ..."
"Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay ''The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'' revolutionized the way we look at the social function of the work of art, and the paradigms through which we appreciate it. Using this legendary essay--and its idea of the "aura" in unique works of art--as a springboard, the essays collected in "Benjamin's Blind Spot" apply Benjamin's insights to a wide range of topics. Subjects range from Benjamin's ..."
The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens(1st Edition) An Interpretative Study by Rajeev S. Patke Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-11513-1, ISBN: 0-521-11513-2
"Series. Editors'. Preface. Postcolonial Literary Studies foregrounds the colonial
and neo-colonial contexts of literary and cultural texts, and demonstrates how
these texts help to understand past and present histories of empires. The books
in the series relate key literary and cultural texts both to their historical and
geographical moments, and to contemporary issues of neo-colonialism and
global inequality. In addition to introd ..."
"With reference to this work, Marco Thomas Bosshard has recently observed that
this is a text that 'frightens', adding that the marginalisation it suffered in the
intellectual circles of Lima was due to the engagement of its author with Andean
indigenous cultures. According to Bosshard, 'The reader that Churata addresses
has perhaps existed for only two decades (this doesn't coincide with the reader of
José María Arguedas, but certa ..."
"with all of Head's work, remarks Craig MacKenzie in his book Bessie Head, “The
Cardinals leaves the reader bewitched, ... into the psychospiritual domain that
would form the battleground of her novelistic tour de force, A Question of Power” (
p. 22). ... of apartheid South Africa, Head's life and work are integrally intertwined
in her re-creations of the exile and outsider. She personally suffered the trauma
of racism and sexism and ..."
Postcolonial Poetry in English (Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures) by Rajeev Shridhar Patke Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2006 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-929888-4, ISBN: 0-19-929888-2
Poetry and Islands Materiality and the Creative Imagination (Rethinking the Island) by Rajeev S. Patke Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2018 by Rowman & Littlefield International ISBN-13: 978-1-78348-411-9, ISBN: 1-78348-411-X
Rethinking the Island Ser. Poetry and Islands : Materiality and the Creative Imagination by Rajeev S. Patke Paperback, 185 Pages, Published 2017 by Rowman And Littlefield International ISBN-13: 978-1-78348-410-2, ISBN: 1-78348-410-1
Complicities(1st Edition) Connections and Divisions: Perspectives on Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region by Chitra Sankaran, Liew Geok Leong, Rajeev Shidhar Patke, RajeevPatke Paperback, 361 Pages, Published 2003 by Peter Lang Ag, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN-13: 978-3-906770-48-2, ISBN: 3-906770-48-6
"The twenty-seven essays in this volume are the product of the Ninth Biennial Symposium on the Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region held in Singapore in December 1999. The contributions explore complicitous interactions between cultures, nations and people in the Asia-Pacific Region. Grouped into the three sections of «Asia-Pacific Relations», «The Politics of Identity» and «Language, Gender and Empowerment», these essays ..."
"The book represents a selection of papers presented at an international symposium in Singapore on the role of theory and practice in the mutually interactive and mutating relations between institutions and cultures. In effect, the papers turn about a single theme: the ways in which power is expressed through those institutions by means of which cultures mediate their requirements. The symposium brought together scholars and academics f ..."
Postcolonial Poetry in English(1st Edition) (Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures in English) by Rajeev Shridhar Patke Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2006 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927564-9, ISBN: 0-19-927564-5