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  A Small Place

  by Jamaica Kincaid

  A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a... (more)
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  Discourse on Colonialism

  by Aime?. Ce?saire, Robin D. G. Kelley

  "Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in which <he> played a prominent role." --Library Journal This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when... (more)
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  Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space

  by Radhika Mohanram

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  Where is Your Body?: And Other Essays on Race, Gender, and the Law

  by Mari J. Matsuda

  Where is Your Body? is a Beacon Press publication.
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  Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft® Reader (World of Warcraft Reader)

  World of Warcraft is the world's most popular massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), with (as of January 2008) more than ten million active subscribers across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia who play the game an astonishing average of twenty hours a week. This book examines the complexity of World of Warcraft from a variety of perspectives, exploring the cultural and social implications of the... (more)
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  The Autobiography of My Mother

  by Jamaica Kincaid

  After her mother dies at birth, Xuela is left by her father with his laundress for the next seven years in a home where she feels no love or affection, so when she moves in with her father's friends, the LaBattes, she finds pleasure however she can. Reprint. NYT.
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  Playing With Fire: Feminist Thought And Activism Through Seven Lives In India

  by Richa Nagar

  Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is based on diaries, interviews, and conversations among them. Together their personal stories reveal larger themes and questions of sexism, casteism, and... (more)
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  Homi K. Bhabha (Routledge Critical Thinkers (Paperback))

  by David Huddart

  Homi K. Bhabha is one of the most highly renowned figures in contemporary post-colonial studies. This volume explores his writings and their influence on postcolonial theory, introducing in clear and accessible language the key concepts of his work, such as "ambivalence," "mimicry," "hybridity" and "translation." David Huddart draws examples from a range of fields including cultural theory, film and literary... (more)
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  Orientalism (Vintage)

  by Edward W. Said

  The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.
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  Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule

  by Ann Laura Stoler

  Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the making of colonial categories and to what distinguished ruler from ruled? Contending that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one, Stoler shows that matters of the intimate were absolutely central to imperial politics. It was, after all, in the intimate sphere of... (more)