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British Asian fiction : twenty-first-century voices
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ISBN: 1781703221 1847793533 9781781703229 9781847793539 9780719078330 9780719078323 0719078326 0719078334 1847797237 Year: 2010 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press,

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This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the unique contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic, migrant, and postcolonial literature in order to foreground both the continuities and tensions embedded in their relationship to such terms, engaging in particular with the ways in which this 'new' generation has been denied the right to a distinctive theoretical framework through absorption into pre-existing frames of reference. Focusing on the


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Human rights and the arts in global Asia
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ISBN: 0739194151 0739194143 9780739194140 9780739194133 0739194135 1322249741 9780739194157 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lanham

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This anthology presents literary and dramatic works from across Asia and the Asian diaspora, some appearing in English for the first time. These works question the standards that the analysis society employs to consider a historical period in which universal human rights and civil liberties are considered secondary to collective good.


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Forget English! Orientalisms and world literatures
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ISBN: 9780674734777 9780674986893 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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The idea of world literature has garnered much attention recently as a discipline that promises to move humanistic study beyond postcolonial theory and antiquated paradigms of “national” literary traditions. In Forget English! Aamir Mufti scrutinizes the claims made on behalf of world literature by its advocates. The notion of a borderless, egalitarian global literature has obvious appeal, he notes, but behind it lurks the continuing dominance of English as a literary language and a cultural system of international reach.The cultural logic of what Edward Said identified as Orientalism continues to structure world literature discourse, Mufti says—although in updated ways that conceal the persistence of the continental and civilizational inequalities of the colonial past. From the beginning, world literature has been an eminently Orientalist idea, one made possible by the translation labors of European Orientalist scholars and the canonizing of Orientalist concepts of cultural difference.World literature has always been a border regime, an implicit set of regulations governing the mobility of various national and local literatures across the world. Mufti explores how English historically achieved its literary preeminence, and he deepens our understanding of how the hegemony of English affects non-European languages—particularly those of India and South Asia—as vessels of literary expression. At the center of the very possibility of world literature is the dominance of English, as both a literary vernacular and the undisputed language of global capitalism.


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Race and antiracism in black British and British Asian literature
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ISBN: 1781388180 1846316251 9781781388181 9781846314827 1846314828 184631853X Year: 2010 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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This study argues that an understanding of how race and ethnicity function in contemporary Britain can only be gained through attention to antiracism. It offers a detailed working through of the impact of the political theory and practise of contemporary antiracism in Britain in a selection of novels by black British and British Asian writers.


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GEMA online journal of language studies.
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ISSN: 25502131 16758021 Year: 2001 Publisher: Bangi Selangor, Malaysia : School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

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Publishes works on literature, with an emphasis on postcolonial and Asian literature in English, linguistics, teaching English as a foreign language, teaching of other languages, and computer applications in language studies.


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Europa buitengaats: koloniale en postkoloniale literaturen in Europese talen
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ISBN: 9035123972 9035124804 9035124812 9789035123977 9789035124806 9789035124813 Year: 2002 Publisher: Amsterdam Bakker

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Gedurende bijna vijf eeuwen overheerste Europa de wereld. Eerst Portugal en Spanje, daarna Frankrijk, Engeland en Nederland, en tenslotte ook België vestigden grote overzeese rijken. Rondom deze koloniën groeide een rijke literatuur, die talloze klassiekers opleverde, zoals bijvoorbeeld Defoes Robinson Crusoe, Camões' Os Lusíadas en Multaltuli's Max Havelaar. Vaak verhieven de Europese mogendheden hun taal tot standaardtaal voor bestuur en onderwijs in de koloniën. Gaandeweg ontwikkelde zich een literatuur in de taal van de kolonisator, maar geschreven door gekoloniseerden. In onze tijd kwamen deze postkoloniale literaturen tot grote bloei, met schrijvers als Salman Rushdie, Maryse Condé, Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison en Etienne van Heerden. Europa buitengaats is het eerste boek dat een overkoepelend overzicht biedt van deze literaire tradities, van de Indische archipel tot de Caraïben, van Zuid-Afrika tot 'the Old South'. Niet alleen komen de belangrijkste werken uitgebreid aan bod, ook wordt ingegaan op verbindende thema's als de spanning tussen kolonisator en autochtone bevolking, de fascinatie voor het onbekende en de zoektocht naar een eigen identiteit. Het resultaat is een kleurrijk en verrassend boek, waaraan de liefhebber van verre paradijzen en exotische literatuur veel genoegen zal beleven.

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French literature (outside France) --- Austronesian literature --- Dutch literature --- Sociolinguistics --- English literature --- Thematology --- South Africa --- India --- Caribbean Area --- Colonies dans la littérature --- Colonies in literature --- Koloniale literatuur --- Kolonies in de literatuur --- Littérature coloniale --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Postkoloniale literatuur --- European literature --- American literature --- Littérature européenne --- Littérature américaine --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Colonies in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- 82 --- #KVHA:Literatuurgeschiedenis; Europa --- Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap --- 82 Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap --- Littérature européenne --- Littérature américaine --- History and criticism --- Oriental literature (English) --- Oriental literature (Dutch) --- Oriental literature (French) --- African literature (Dutch) --- African literature (French) --- African literature (English) --- African literature (Portuguese) --- Minority authors --- Caribbean literature (French) --- Caribbean literature (Dutch) --- Pacific Island literature [English ] --- French-American literature --- Latin American literature (Dutch) --- Latin American literature (Spanish) --- Brazilian literature --- Caribbean area --- 82 Literature in general --- Literature in general --- European literature - History and criticism. --- American literature - History and criticism. --- INDES NEERLANDAISES --- LITTERATURE NEERLANDAISE --- PAYS-BAS --- ANTILLES NEERLANDAISES --- LITTERATURE AFRIKAANS --- LITTERATURE SUD-AFRICAINE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- LITTERATURE AUSTRALIENNE --- LITTERATURE DE L'INDE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- LITTERATURE INDONESIENNE DE LANGUE NEERLANDAISE --- INDONESIE --- COLONIES --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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