Books in the Cultural Margins series

An historical and theoretical analysis of the way gender and race become objects of academic inquiry.

Why has autobiography been central to African American political speech throughout the twentieth century? Kenneth Mostern illustrates the relationship between narrative and racial categories in the work of writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Paul Robeson, Angela Davis and bell hooks.

In this 1998 book, an international team from a variety of disciplines discusses the historical and cultural significance of cannibalism. Addressing the theme as it appears popular culture, film, literature, travel writing and anthropology, this group places the discussion of cannibalism in the context of postcolonial and cultural studies.

This wide-ranging study includes extended discussions of Frantz Fanon, C. L. R. James, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Samir Amin, Raymond Williams, Paul Gilroy and Partha Chatterjee. Neil Lazarus's book offers a politically focused, materialist intervention into postcolonial and cultural studies, and constitutes a major reappraisal of politics and culture in these fields.

In this first full-length study of race and colonialism in the works of James Joyce, Vincent J. Cheng argues that Joyce's texts constitute a trenchant and significant political commentary not only on British imperialism in Ireland, but on colonial discourses and imperial ideologies in general.

In this 1994 study of racism and homophobia in British politics, Anna Marie Smith produces powerful readings of key moments in right-wing discourse, and challenges the silence on issues of race and sexuality in previous studies of Thatcherism and the New Right.

Writings about and depictions of 'savage' peoples by conquering races are here examined as a form of textual practice. What emerges is a composite picture of anthropological representation as a textual genre in its own right, embracing literature, literary theory and colonial/postcolonial studies.

Los Angeles is the most fragmented and the most minoritized metropolis in America, and its most luridly abstract and aestheticised city. Literature and Race in Los Angeles is the first full-length attempt to think through some of the representational contradictions inherent in literary production in this city, and contemporary America at large.

In this 1998 book, an international team from a variety of disciplines discusses the historical and cultural significance of cannibalism. Addressing the theme as it appears popular culture, film, literature, travel writing and anthropology, this group places the discussion of cannibalism in the context of postcolonial and cultural studies.

An extended study of the social and cultural legacies of state division in Ireland and Palestine. The book examines nationalism and self-determination; the construction of national literatures in the wake of state division; and influential Irish, Israeli and Palestinian writers, film-makers and public intellectuals.

By giving substantial attention to issues such as globalisation, racism, and modernity, Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies provides a specifically Marxist intervention into postcolonial and cultural studies. An international team of contributors locate a common ground of issues engaging Marxist and postcolonial critics alike.