Literature: History & Criticism

The Indian novelist R.K. Narayan was a key figure in the development of a distinctive postcolonial literature. This detailed critical study covers ...

Paid critics are an endangered species, and good criticism is a dying art. Editors are culling many, and frequently all, of their best critics. In ...

Can todays society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance...

This book presents Chinese short-short stories in English and Chinese, integrating language learning with cultural studies for intermediate to adva...

Selected by Cathy Park Hong as winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize Written in and of the protest encampments of one of the most so...

This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, W...

During the colonial period in Guyana, the countrys coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Sh...

This book, the first of its kind in English, examines the reinvention of loyalism in colonial Taiwan through the lens of literature. It analyzes th...