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The postcolonial unconscious by Lazarus, Neil, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the political unconscious of postcolonial studies -- The politics of postcolonial modernism -- Fredric Jameson on 'third-world literature': a defence -- 'A figure glimpsed in a rear-view mirror': the question of representation in 'postcolonial' fiction -- Frantz Fanon after the 'postcolonial prerogative' -- The battle over Edward Said.…”
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Sound and script in Chinese diaspora by Tsu, Jing

Table of Contents: “…Literary governance -- Chinese lessons -- Lin Yutang's typewriter (Anglophone) -- Bilingual loyalty, betrayal, and accountability (Anglophone) -- Chen Jitong's "World Literature" and the Republicanism of letters (Francophone) -- The missing script of Taiwan (Taiwanese) -- Look-alikes, bad relations, and spectral genealogies (Chinese Malaysian) -- The elephant in the room (Chinese Malaysian).…”
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Sound and script in Chinese diaspora by Tsu, Jing

Table of Contents: “…Literary governance -- Chinese lessons -- Lin Yutang's typewriter (Anglophone) -- Bilingual loyalty, betrayal, and accountability (Anglophone) -- Chen Jitong's "World Literature" and the Republicanism of letters (Francophone) -- The missing script of Taiwan (Taiwanese) -- Look-alikes, bad relations, and spectral genealogies (Chinese Malaysian) -- The elephant in the room (Chinese Malaysian).…”
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Drought and the human story braving the bull of heaven / by Heathcote, R. L.

Table of Contents: “…The Mitigation Strategies of the Industrialized Countries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Drought Reporting and Drought Relief as Moral Hazards? -- Drought in World Literature, Art, Philosophy and Community -- The Scientists and Drought -- The Coming Droughts.…”
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Drought and the human story braving the bull of heaven / by Heathcote, R. L.

Table of Contents: “…The Mitigation Strategies of the Industrialized Countries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Drought Reporting and Drought Relief as Moral Hazards? -- Drought in World Literature, Art, Philosophy and Community -- The Scientists and Drought -- The Coming Droughts.…”
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Involuntary Associations : Postcolonial Studies and World Englishes / by Huddart, David (David Paul)

Table of Contents: “…Involuntary associations : "Postcolonial Studies" and "World Englishes" -- Grammars of living break their Tense : world Englishes and cultural translation -- English in the conversation of mankind : world Englishes and global citizenship -- Declarations of linguistic independence: the postcolonial dictionary -- Writing after the end of empire : Composition, community, and creativity -- Slow reading : the opacity of world literatures -- Conclusion : English remains, englishes remain.…”
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Involuntary Associations : Postcolonial Studies and World Englishes / by Huddart, David (David Paul)

Table of Contents: “…Involuntary associations : "Postcolonial Studies" and "World Englishes" -- Grammars of living break their Tense : world Englishes and cultural translation -- English in the conversation of mankind : world Englishes and global citizenship -- Declarations of linguistic independence: the postcolonial dictionary -- Writing after the end of empire : Composition, community, and creativity -- Slow reading : the opacity of world literatures -- Conclusion : English remains, englishes remain.…”
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Melville, mapping and globalization literary cartography in the American baroque writer / by Tally, Robert T.

Table of Contents: “…Preface: "when Leviathan's the text" -- Out of bounds: Melville's American baroque -- Spaces of American literature: geography and narrative form -- 'An everlasting terra incognita': globalization and world literature -- Anti-Ishmael -- Marine nomadology: Melville's antinomy of pure reason -- 'spaces that before were blank': the utopia of the periphery -- A prosy stroll: overview and the urban itinerary -- The ambiguities of place: local narrative and the global city -- Conclusion: "Leviathan is not the biggest fish", or, the cartography of the Kraken.…”
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Melville, mapping and globalization literary cartography in the American baroque writer / by Tally, Robert T.

Table of Contents: “…Preface: "when Leviathan's the text" -- Out of bounds: Melville's American baroque -- Spaces of American literature: geography and narrative form -- 'An everlasting terra incognita': globalization and world literature -- Anti-Ishmael -- Marine nomadology: Melville's antinomy of pure reason -- 'spaces that before were blank': the utopia of the periphery -- A prosy stroll: overview and the urban itinerary -- The ambiguities of place: local narrative and the global city -- Conclusion: "Leviathan is not the biggest fish", or, the cartography of the Kraken.…”
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A companion to comparative literature

Table of Contents: “…Worlds in Collision:" The Languages and Locations of World Literature.30. Graham Huggan.The Trouble with World Literature.…”
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A companion to comparative literature

Table of Contents: “…Worlds in Collision:" The Languages and Locations of World Literature.30. Graham Huggan.The Trouble with World Literature.…”
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Africa and France postcolonial cultures, migration, and racism / by Thomas, Dominic Richard David

Table of Contents: “…Museology and globalization: the Quai Branly Museum -- Object/subject migration: The National Centre for the History of Immigration -- Sarkozy's Law: national identity and the institutionalization of xenophobia -- Africa, France, and Eurafrica in the twenty-first century -- From mirage to image: contest(ed)ing space in diasporic films (1955-2011) -- The "Marie Ndiaye Affair," or the coming of a postcolonial évoluée -- The Euro-mediterranean: literature and migration -- Into the "jungle": migration and grammar in the new Europe -- Documenting the periphery: the French banlieues in words and film -- Decolonizing France: national literatures, world literature, and world identities.…”
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Africa and France postcolonial cultures, migration, and racism / by Thomas, Dominic Richard David

Table of Contents: “…Museology and globalization: the Quai Branly Museum -- Object/subject migration: The National Centre for the History of Immigration -- Sarkozy's Law: national identity and the institutionalization of xenophobia -- Africa, France, and Eurafrica in the twenty-first century -- From mirage to image: contest(ed)ing space in diasporic films (1955-2011) -- The "Marie Ndiaye Affair," or the coming of a postcolonial évoluée -- The Euro-mediterranean: literature and migration -- Into the "jungle": migration and grammar in the new Europe -- Documenting the periphery: the French banlieues in words and film -- Decolonizing France: national literatures, world literature, and world identities.…”
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Encountering China : early modern European responses /

Table of Contents: “…European responses to child abandonment, sale of children and social welfare policies in Ming China / Rachana Sachdev -- Of golden lilies and gentlewomen : constructions of Chinese women in early modern European travel narratives / Qingjun Li -- Earlier moderns : the novel form as national development in China and Europe / Daniel Dooghan -- "A strong resemblance" : Samuel Richardson, Chinese talent-beauty novels, and a secret origin of "world literature" / Ning Ma -- 'Magicians, enchanters, and professional crooks' : early modern understandings of Daoism / Ronnie Littlejohn -- Buddhism and idolatry / Terry Logan Mazurak.…”
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Encountering China : early modern European responses /

Table of Contents: “…European responses to child abandonment, sale of children and social welfare policies in Ming China / Rachana Sachdev -- Of golden lilies and gentlewomen : constructions of Chinese women in early modern European travel narratives / Qingjun Li -- Earlier moderns : the novel form as national development in China and Europe / Daniel Dooghan -- "A strong resemblance" : Samuel Richardson, Chinese talent-beauty novels, and a secret origin of "world literature" / Ning Ma -- 'Magicians, enchanters, and professional crooks' : early modern understandings of Daoism / Ronnie Littlejohn -- Buddhism and idolatry / Terry Logan Mazurak.…”
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Thinking Literature across Continents / by Ghosh, Ranjan, Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021

Table of Contents: “…Hillis Miller -- More than global / Ranjan Ghosh -- Globalization and world literature / J. Hillis Miller -- Reinventing the teaching machine : looking for a text in an Indian classroom / Ranjan Ghosh -- Should we read or teach literature now? …”
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Thinking Literature across Continents / by Ghosh, Ranjan, Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021

Table of Contents: “…Hillis Miller -- More than global / Ranjan Ghosh -- Globalization and world literature / J. Hillis Miller -- Reinventing the teaching machine : looking for a text in an Indian classroom / Ranjan Ghosh -- Should we read or teach literature now? …”
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The song of the soul set free / by McAlister, Jack

Change the world school of prayer / by Eastman, Dick

Dawn of a new era : a "one evening" world missionary tour / by Lee, Johnny