This book explores four themes which are innately interconnected within the globalised landscape of the early 21st century: China, Islamic fundamentalism, civil war and environmentalism. It was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.
This book explores four themes which are innately interconnected within the globalised landscape of the early 21st century: China, Islamic fundamentalism, civil war and environmentalism. It was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Lucienne Loh is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is author of The Postcolonial Country in Contemporary Literature (2013) and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Malcolm Sen is an Irish Research Council Fellow at Harvard University's Center for the Environment. His essays have been published in a number of academic journals and books, and in literary magazines and newspapers. He is the editor of a podcast series, Irish Studies and the Environmental Humanities, which is available on University College Dublin's Scholarcast channel.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword: Postcolonial Studies in a Twenty-First Century Environment 1. Introduction: Postcolonial literature and challenges for the new millennium 2. Including China: Bei Dao, resistance and the imperial state 3. The epic spirit in Ma Jian's Beijing Coma and the 'new' China as twenty-first-century Empire 4. Reading Lolita in Tel Aviv: terrorism, fundamentalism and the novel 5. 'Representing the very ethic he battled': secularism, Islam(ism) and self-transgression in The Satanic Verses 6. Global civil war and post-9/11 discourse in The Wasted Vigil 7. Landmines, language, and dismemberment: Mia Couto's imperial residues 8. Bones of corals made: ecology and war in Gunesekara's Reef 9. Guns & Roses: reading the picturesque archive in Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain 10. Epilogue: the pterodactyl of history?
Foreword: Postcolonial Studies in a Twenty-First Century Environment 1. Introduction: Postcolonial literature and challenges for the new millennium 2. Including China: Bei Dao, resistance and the imperial state 3. The epic spirit in Ma Jian's Beijing Coma and the 'new' China as twenty-first-century Empire 4. Reading Lolita in Tel Aviv: terrorism, fundamentalism and the novel 5. 'Representing the very ethic he battled': secularism, Islam(ism) and self-transgression in The Satanic Verses 6. Global civil war and post-9/11 discourse in The Wasted Vigil 7. Landmines, language, and dismemberment: Mia Couto's imperial residues 8. Bones of corals made: ecology and war in Gunesekara's Reef 9. Guns & Roses: reading the picturesque archive in Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain 10. Epilogue: the pterodactyl of history?
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