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This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot¿s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot ¿ whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India ¿ and also dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also investigates Victorian Islamophobia in light of E...

The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology. Over the past two decades, musicians associated with this period have produced a large amount of important autobiographical writing. This book situates these works -- in the forms of formal autobiographies and memoirs, auto-fiction, songs, and self-fashioned museum exhibitions -- within the context of...

The essays in this collection are the participant observations of performers and attendees of Woodstock and related festivals, and also the reflections of cultural historians on aspects of the festival, its representation, and its ambiguous legacy.

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Oliver Lovesey examines the conundrum of the postcolonial intellectual, a central yet critically overlooked figure in the postcolonial project. He focuses on Ngägäwa Thiong'o within his cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts, primarily with respect to his non-fictional prose writings, including his neglected early journalism and his most

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This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot — whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India — and also dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also investigates Victorian Islamophobia in light of E...

Novelist, playwright, and literary theorist, Ngugi is one of the most important contemporary writers in Anglophone Africa. His prize-winning "Weep Not, Child" was the first major novel in English by an East African.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one of the most important and celebrated authors of post-independence Africa as well as a ground breaking postcolonial theorist. Part 1 of this volume provides resources and background for the teaching the novels, plays, memoirs, and criticism. The essays of part 2, consider the influence of Frantz Fanon, Karl Marx, and Joseph Conrad, the role of women in and influence of feminism on his fiction, his interpretation and pol...

Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one of the most important and celebrated authors of post-independence Africa as well as a ground breaking postcolonial theorist. Part 1 of this volume provides resources and background for the teaching the novels, plays, memoirs, and criticism. The essays of part 2, consider the influence of Frantz Fanon, Karl Marx, and Joseph Conrad, the role of women in and influence of feminism on his fiction, his interpretation and pol...

Oliver Lovesey examines the conundrum of the postcolonial intellectual, a central yet critically overlooked figure in the postcolonial project. He focuses on Ngägäwa Thiong'o within his cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts, primarily with respect to his non-fictional prose writings, including his neglected early journalism and his most recent autobiographical and theoretical work. Lovesey argues for Ngägäwa Thiong'o position as a ma...