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Return in Post-Colonial Writing : A Cultural Labyrinth
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ISBN: 9789004489639 9789051836486 Year: 1994 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL

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For writers and academics prominent in the field of the New Literatures in English today, the notion of return explodes into rich semantic difference to reveal the diversity of preoccupations underlying the use of the common tongue. From the Caribbean to Australia, Guyana to South Africa, India to Great Britain, literary, political and personal history collaborate in the poetic metamorphosis of an otherwise everyday experience. Now a state of being, now a reading rich with cross-cultural age, return draws from the collective memory, invokes revenants, digs up forgotten history, quests for roots. Just as it creates a dialogue with the past, textual or real, it negotiates turning points and perpetuates reversals. It reclaims territory, tradition and language in its yearning for home. Fraught with the tensions arising from awareness of the impossibility of return, from the exhilarations of imaginary, fictional return - even from the glimmering hope of a possible return - its contemplation can also lead to appreciation of the infinite re-turn, re-newal and re-creation that is the beauty of human experience. Discussion ranges from revenant supernaturalism in West Indian literature and the exploration of return in Australian, African and Indo-Anglian fiction to Caribbean poetry, South African praise poets, and West African drama. Writers treated include Ama Ata Aidoo, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Jean D'Costa, Bessie Head, Matsemela Manaka, Salman Rushdie, Derek Walcott, and Patrick White. The personal, biographical dimension of physical return is encompassed via the examination of the life and works of such writers as Es'kia Mphahlele and Wole Soyinka, and through autobiographical reflections. The essays, stories and poetry in this collection challenge patterns of conditioned reading and call for a multilayered poly logue with reality.

Unwinding threads : writing by women in Africa
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ISBN: 0435909894 Year: 1994 Publisher: Oxford Heinemann

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The state : critical concepts
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ISBN: 0415086833 0415086809 0415086817 0415086825 Year: 1994 Publisher: London Routledge

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Die Aussenpolitik der GUS-Staaten und ihr Verhältnis zu Deutschland und Europa
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ISBN: 3804687679 Year: 1994 Publisher: Bielefeld Wissenschaft und Politik

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Regiments : regiments and corps of the British empire and commonwealth, 1757-1993 : a critical bibliography of their published histories
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ISBN: 0950642932 Year: 1994 Publisher: Newton Abbot Perkins

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The Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English
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ISBN: 0198661479 9780198661474 Year: 1994 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Poetry --- English literature --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- American poetry --- Commonwealth poetry, English --- English poetry --- Poets, American --- Poets, Commonwealth --- Poets, English --- Poésie américaine --- Poésie du Commonwealth (anglaise) --- Poésie anglaise --- Poètes américains --- Poètes du Commonwealth --- Poètes anglais --- Dictionaries --- Biography --- Dictionnaires anglais --- Biographies --- Biographie --- Commonwealth poetry (English) --- Dictionaries. --- 820-1 "19" --- #KVHA:Literatuurgeschiedenis; Engels --- #KVHA:Poeziegeschiedenis; Engels --- -Poets, Commonwealth --- -Poets, American --- -Poets, English --- -Commonwealth poetry (English) --- -American poetry --- -American literature --- Commonwealth of Nations poetry (English) --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- English poets --- American poets --- Commonwealth poets --- Poets, Commonwealth of Nations --- Engelse literatuur: poëzie--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- -Dictionaries --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- -Engelse literatuur: poëzie--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 820-1 "19" Engelse literatuur: poëzie--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Poésie américaine --- Poésie du Commonwealth (anglaise) --- Poésie anglaise --- Poètes américains --- Poètes du Commonwealth --- Poètes anglais --- Biography&delete& --- Poets [American ] --- 20th century --- Poets [Commonwealth of Nations ] --- Poets [English ] --- English poetry - 20th century - Dictionaries. --- Poets, Commonwealth - 20th century - Biography - Dictionaries. --- Poets, English - 20th century - Biography - Dictionaries. --- Commonwealth poetry (English) - Dictionaries. --- Poets, American - 20th century - Biography - Dictionaries. --- American poetry - 20th century - Dictionaries. --- Poesie anglaise --- Poetes anglais --- 20e siecle


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The rise and fall of the British empire
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ISBN: 0316905062 Year: 1994 Publisher: London Little, Brown

Encyclopedia of post-colonial literatures in English
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ISBN: 0415051991 041511344X 0415113458 9780415051996 Year: 1994 Publisher: London Routledge

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English literature --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- Decolonization in literature --- Littérature du Commonwealth (Anglaise) --- Décolonisation dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- Encyclopedias --- Encyclopédie --- --1945-1990 --- --Littérature africaine d’expression anglaise --- --Littérature canadienne d’expression anglaise --- --Littérature australienne d’expression anglaise --- --Littérature indienne d’expression anglaise --- --Commonwealth literature (English) --- 820 <03> --- 820 <100> --- -English literature --- -Decolonization in literature --- -British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Commonwealth of Nations literature (English) --- Engelse literatuur--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- Encyclopedias. --- -Engelse literatuur--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- 820 <100> Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- 820 <03> Engelse literatuur--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- -820 <100> Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- Littérature du Commonwealth (Anglaise) --- Décolonisation dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- Encyclopédie --- British literature --- Littérature africaine d’expression anglaise --- Littérature canadienne d’expression anglaise --- Littérature australienne d’expression anglaise --- Littérature indienne d’expression anglaise --- Commonwealth literature (English) - Encyclopedias --- English literature - Developing countries - Encyclopedias --- English literature - 20th century - Encyclopedias --- Decolonization in literature - Encyclopedias

The social contract from Hobbes to Rawls
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ISBN: 0415108462 0415108454 0203396707 1134839685 1134839693 1280056622 0203392922 9780415108461 Year: 1994 Publisher: London Routledge

Political writings
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ISBN: 0521431425 0521437407 1139170465 9780521431422 9781139170468 9780521437400 Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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This book places Spencer's famous argument for political individualism in his The Man versus the State alongside his early The Proper Sphere of Government, out of which, after due gestation, emerged not only The Man versus the State but also Social Status and his all-embracing theory of evolution. Both are valuable as unyielding statements of anti-state political theory and as sources of perceptive comments on political events of the times. An introduction sets them in their context and examines their main themes. The book will be of interest to both undergraduates and specialists in politics, political theory, social policy, sociology and history.

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