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Chris Abani

by Annalisa Oboe e Elisa Bordin

124,85€ + 10% CARD

 Touching on global issues such as violence, sexual abuse, gender, performativity, marginality, migration and human rights, Abaniâ€™s work testifies to the centrality of his literary voice in the contemporary literary panorama. This book shows how aesthetics overlaps with ethics and how forms of extreme abuse may coexist with love and redemption. -- .
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Rohinton Mistry

by Peter Morey

3,96€ + 10% CARD

 This study - the first of its kind - situates Rohinton Mistry's writing in its cultural and historical context. It explores key features, such as the legacy of Zoroastrianism, Parsi anglophilia, recent Indian history, and the Persian and European narrative traditions on which Mistry draws to produce his distinctive postcolonial fictions. -- .
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Chris Abani

by Annalisa Oboe e Elisa Bordin

114,91€ + 10% CARD

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 Touching on global issues such as violence, sexual abuse, gender, performativity, marginality, migration and human rights, Abaniâ€™s work testifies to the centrality of his literary voice in the contemporary literary panorama. This book shows how aesthetics overlaps with ethics and how forms of extreme abuse may coexist with love and redemption. -- .
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Chinua Achebe

by Jago Morrison

23,96€ + 10% CARD

 A major new study of Africaâ€™s most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebeâ€™s work as a novelist, broadcaster and political thinker -- .
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Chinua Achebe

by Jago Morrison

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 A major new study of Africaâ€™s most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebeâ€™s work as a novelist, broadcaster and political thinker -- .
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Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen And Fred D'Aguiar - Representations Of Slavery

by Abigail Ward

23,96€ + 10% CARD

 This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred DÃ¢â‚¬â„¢Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain may be seen as legacies of this largely ignored, but deeply significant, past. -- .
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Salman Rushdie

by Andrew Teverson

21,08€ + 10% CARD

 In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdieâ€™s fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of this major contemporary figure. -- .
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Amitav Ghosh

by Anshuman A. Mondal

18,20€ + 10% CARD

 Amitav Ghosh is the first full-length critical monograph on this important post-colonial contemporary writer to be published outside India. It offers in-depth analysis of all Ghosh's major fictional and non-fictional works and is an authoritative introduction to the themes, ideas and contexts that have informed and shaped his work. -- .
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David Malouf

by Don Randall

35,49€ + 10% CARD

 Don Randall's comprehensive study situates acclaimed author David Malouf within the field of contemporary international and psotcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts. The book presents an original reading of Malouf, but also engages with the full body of preceding Malouf criticism. -- .
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Rohinton Mistry

by Peter Morey

3,96€ + 10% CARD

 This study - the first of its kind - situates Rohinton Mistry's writing in its cultural and historical context. It explores key features, such as the legacy of Zoroastrianism, Parsi anglophilia, recent Indian history, and the Persian and European narrative traditions on which Mistry draws to produce his distinctive postcolonial fictions. -- .
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Michael Ondaatje

by Lee Spinks

21,08€ + 10% CARD

 This book provided the first comprehensive account of the Booker Prize-winning poet and novellist, Michael Ondaatje. It also offers a guide to key issues in postcolonial writing and theory. -- .
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Maxine Hong Kingston

by Helena Grice

18,20€ + 10% CARD

 Part of the "Contemporary World Writers" series, this book talks about Maxine Hong Kingston - one of America's most successful writers. It covers Maxine Hong Kingston's works, including her fiction and non-fiction works.
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Peter Carey

by Bruce Woodcock

18,20€ + 10% CARD

 This is a revised and expanded edition of Woodcock's accessible study, now including detailed readings of Carey's latest novels, 'Jack Maggs' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'. -- .
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Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen And Fred D'Aguiar - Representations Of Slavery

by Abigail Ward

40,56€ + 10% CARD

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 This book focuses on representations of slavery in the works of contemporary British authors Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred Dâ€™Aguiar, specifically exploring how racial anxieties in twenty-first century Britain may be seen as legacies of this largely ignored, but deeply significant, past. -- .
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Chinua Achebe

by Jago Morrison

114,91€ + 10% CARD

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 A major new study of Africaâ€™s most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebeâ€™s work as a novelist, broadcaster and political thinker -- .
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Salman Rushdie

by Andrew Teverson

27,03€ + 10% CARD

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 In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdieâ€™s fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of this major contemporary figure. -- .
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Amitav Ghosh

by Anshuman A. Mondal

27,04€ + 10% CARD

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 Amitav Ghosh is the first full-length critical monograph on this important post-colonial contemporary writer to be published outside India. It offers in-depth analysis of all Ghosh's major fictional and non-fictional works and is an authoritative introduction to the themes, ideas and contexts that have informed and shaped his work. -- .
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Michael Ondaatje

by Lee Spinks

108,15€ + 10% CARD

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 This book provided the first comprehensive account of the Booker Prize-winning poet and novellist, Michael Ondaatje. It also offers a guide to key issues in postcolonial writing and theory. -- .
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Amitav Ghosh

by Anshuman A. Mondal

108,15€ + 10% CARD

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 Amitav Ghosh is the first full-length critical monograph on this important post-colonial contemporary writer to be published outside India. It offers in-depth analysis of all Ghosh's major fictional and non-fictional works and is an authoritative introduction to the themes, ideas and contexts that have informed and shaped his work. -- .
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R. K. Narayan

by John Thieme

20,27€ + 10% CARD

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 A comprehensive study of Narayanâ€™s fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels -- .
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R. K. Narayan

by John Thieme

108,15€ + 10% CARD

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 A comprehensive study of Narayanâ€™s fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels -- .
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David Malouf

by Don Randall

108,15€ + 10% CARD

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 Don Randall's comprehensive study situates acclaimed author David Malouf within the field of contemporary international and psotcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts. The book presents an original reading of Malouf, but also engages with the full body of preceding Malouf criticism. -- .
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Alice Munro

by Coral Howells

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 This study of the work of Alice Munro explores the appeal of her fictions of small-town Canada with their precise attention to social surfaces and their fascination with local gossip and scandal.
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Amy Tan

by Bella Adams

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 This is the first study to cover Tan's entire oeuvre, and offers students and general readers an accessible, probing analysis of Tan's highly successful novels within broader debates about the representation of identity, history and reality. -- .
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