9789042017634 - Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Human Rights in a 'Post'-Colonial World (Asnel Papers) (2 Ergebnisse)

Original publisher's paper-coverd boards, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: xvi, 332pp., 29 contributions with footnotes - bibliographical notes - works cited, acknowledgements, table of contents. Very fine copy - as new. Volume 76: Cross/Cultures. Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English.

Hardback. Zustand: Very good condition. Studying postcolonial literatures in English can (and indeed should) make a human rights activist of the reader - there is, after all, any amount of evidence to show the injustices and inhumanity thrown up by processes of decolonization and the struggle with past legacies and present corruptions. Yet the human-rights aspect of postcolonial literary studies has been somewhat marginalized by scholars preoccupied with more fashionable questions of theory. The present collection seeks to redress this neglect, whereby the definition of human rights adopted is intentionally broad. The volume reflects the human rights situation in many countries from Mauritius to New Zealand, from the Cameroon to Canada. It includes a focus on the Malawian writer Jack Mapanje.ASNEL Papers 8. Cross/Cultures 76.