Dominic (Hrsg.) Davies

Fighting Words

Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World

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Can a book change the world? If books were integral to the creation of the imperial global order, what role have they played in resisting that order throughout the twentieth century? To what extent have theories and movements of anti-imperial and anticolonial resistance across the planet been shaped by books as they are read across the world?This updated edition of Fighting Words responds to these questions by examining how the book as a cultural form has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century. Through fifteen case studies that bring together literary, historical and book historical perspectives, this collection explores t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Mountford, Benjamin (Hrsg.) / Lombard, Erica (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78997-422-5
EAN: 9781789974225
Produktnummer: 31776187
Verlag: Peter Lang
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Masse: H22.5 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.6 cm 430 g
Auflage: 2. Auflage
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 430

Über den Autor

Dominic Davies is a Lecturer in English at City, University of London. He holds a DPhil and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Oxford. He is the author of Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 (Peter Lang, 2017) and Urban Comics: Infrastructure & the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives (Routledge, 2019). Erica Lombard is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town. She holds a DPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford. Benjamin Mountford is Senior Lecturer in History at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. He was formerly a David Myers Research Fellow at La Trobe University (2017-18) and a Michael Brock Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.