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Contesting Postcolonialisms is a collection of essays which address the complexity of the term and its myriad meanings. They seek to define, analyse, critique and contest its meanings, its history and implications. In the process of doing so, they are compelled to confront the plurality of its origins and the essential fluidity of the term. It is not possible to draw a linear graph of the development of postcolonialism because of the complexity of the concept. ...
Women's Writing: Dialogues with Patriarachy is a collection of essays on the major women writers of the nineteenth century and their questioning of and response to the ideas of the Enlightenment. The essays travel a journey of more than a hundred years, explore the philosophical aspects of novels relegated to the category of 'romance', trace the interconnections between socio-political ideas and the construction of 'femininity' and 'morality' as they excavate the ...
This book attempts to unravel some of the causes of and tensions involved in this paradoxical situation; to explore the complexities of the subject matter of the field; to explain what is actually happening in the world of environmental education at the close of the twentieth century; and to consider aspects of the field's priorities and potential as we enter the twenty-first. If readers are hoping to find here the ultimate answers and practical tips for the ...