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  • Nuclear Cultures
    Pramod K. Nayar
    Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity　aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events. ...
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    77,48 €

  • Alzheimer’s Disease Memoirs
    Pramod K Nayar
    This book examines writings by people living with Alzheimer’s Disease and their caregivers. Its focus areas include the construction of the self in the face of diminishing linguistic and cognitive abilities, the stigmatization of ageing, the various narrative strategies that these texts (often collaborative) employ, the health activism and advocacy generated via a ’biosociality...
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    134,50 €

  • Alzheimer’s Disease Memoirs
    Pramod K Nayar
    This book examines writings by people living with Alzheimer’s Disease and their caregivers. Its focus areas include the construction of the self in the face of diminishing linguistic and cognitive abilities, the stigmatization of ageing, the various narrative strategies that these texts (often collaborative) employ, the health activism and advocacy generated via a ’biosociality...
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    48,43 €

  • Ecoprecarity
    Pramod K. Nayar
    Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture presents an examination of ecoprecarity - the precarious　lives that humans lead in the process and event of ecological disaster, and the state of the environment as a result of human interventions - in contemporary literary-cultural texts. ...
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    82,96 €

  • The Human Rights Graphic Novel
    Pramod K. Nayar
    This book studies human rights discourse across a variety of graphic novels, both fiction and non-fiction, originating in different parts of the world. It demonstrates the emergence of the ‘universal’ subject of human rights, despite the variations, through a study of these vastly different authors and styles. ...
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    95,01 €

  • Human Rights and Literature
    Pramod K. Nayar
    Set at the intersection of Human Rights, social justice and Literature, this cutting edge book examines a range of literary texts, fiction, plays and poetry, and through them considers representations of Human Rights and their violations. Examining violated bodies and subjects, the settings and environments in which these are embedded and the witnessing of atrocities, it ...
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    79,13 €

  • Extreme in Contemporary Culture
    Pramod K Nayar / Pramod K. Nayar / Pramod KNayar
    Examines extremity as a political and cultural phenomenon in the late 20th and early 21st century. It argues that we can discern a ‘continuum of extremes/extremity’ on which we may locate practices as diverse as Abu Ghraib, extreme sports, biomedical TV series and horror films. ...
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    72,44 €

  • Writing Wrongs
    Pramod K. Nayar
    This book examines the ’cultural apparatus’ of Human Rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witnessing through a study of autobiographies, memoirs, reportage and media coverage, and documentaries. Moving across multiple media and genres for their representations of Dalits, riot victims, prisoners, abused and abandoned women and ch...
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    104,51 €

  • The Transnational in English Literature
    Pramod K. Nayar
    Transnational English Literature examines English literary history through its transnational engagements and argues that every period of English Literature can be characterised through its global relations. English identity and nationhood is therefore defined through its negotiation with other regions and cultures. ...
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    76,94 €

  • English Writing and India, 1600-1920
    Pramod K. Nayar
    This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics furnished a vocabulary and repres...
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    97,70 €

  • Frantz Fanon
    Pramod K. Nayar
    This clear, student-friendly guidebook considers Fanon’s key texts and theories, looking at:Postcolonial theory’s appropriation of psychoanalysisAnxieties around cultural nationalisms and the rise of native consciousnessPostcoloniality’s relationship with violence and separatismNew humanism and ideas of community. ...
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    51,96 €

  • Postcolonialism
    Pramod K. Nayar
    Postcolonialism as a critical approach and pedagogic practice has informed literary and cultural studies since the late 1980s. The term is heavily loaded and has come to mean a wide, and often bewildering, variety of approaches, methods, politics and ideas. Beginning with the historical origins of postcolonial thought in the writings of Gandhi, Cesaire and Fanon, this guide mov...
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    44,55 €