Author: John Thieme

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John Thieme is Senior Fellow at the University of East Anglia, UK. He previously held Chairs at the University of Hull and London South Bank University, and has also taught at the Universities of Guyana and North London. His books include Post-Colonial Con-Texts: Writing Back to the Canon, Post-Colonial Studies: The Essential Glossary and monographs on Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul and R.K. Narayan.




25 Ebooks by John Thieme

John Thieme: Postcolonial Literary Geographies
This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as …
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€96.29
John Thieme: R. K. Narayan
R.K. Narayan’s reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. …
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€17.99
John Thieme: R. K. Narayan
R.K. Narayan’s reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. …
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English
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€16.61
Jago Morrison: Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa’s foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and politica …
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English
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€23.99
Bruce Woodcock: Peter Carey
This is a revised and expanded edition of Woodcock’s accessible study, now including detailed readings of Carey’s latest novels, ‘Jack Maggs’ and ‘True History of the Kelly …
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English
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€17.99
Helena Grice: Maxine Hong Kingston
Since the publication of The Woman Warrior in 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston has gained a reputation as one of the most popular — and controversial — writers in the Asian American literary tradition. …
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English
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€17.99
Lee Spinks: Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje is the first comprehensive and fully up-to-date study of Ondaatje’s entire oeuvre. Starting from Ondaatje’s beginnings as a poet, this volume offers an intensive account of each of …
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€20.99
Don Randall: David Malouf
Don Randall’s comprehensive study situates Malouf within the field of contemporary international and postcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author’s affiliation with Australian …
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English
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€18.99
Anshuman A. Mondal: Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is an authoritative critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent …
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English
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€17.99
Andrew Teverson: Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most important writers of politicised fiction. He is a self-proclaimed controversialist, capable of exciting radically divergent viewpoints, a novelist of …
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English
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€20.99
Susan Watkins: Doris Lessing
This study examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced w …
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English
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€23.99
Abigail Ward: Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar
Slavery is a recurring subject in works by the contemporary black writers in Britain Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar, yet their return to this past arises from an urgent need to unde …
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€23.99
Peter Morey: Rohinton Mistry
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The award-winning novelist Rohinton Mistry is recognised as one of the most important …
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€0.00
Peter Morey: Rohinton Mistry
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The award-winning novelist Rohinton Mistry is recognised as one of the most important …
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English
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€3.82
Annalisa Oboe & Elisa Bordin: Chris Abani
This is the first full-length book on the work of ‘global Igbo’ writer Chris Abani. The volume dedicates a chapter to each of Abani’s fiction books, the two novellas Becoming Abigail (2006) and …
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€124.99
Jago Morrison: Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa’s foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and …
EPUB
English
DRM
€20.44
Helena Grice: Maxine Hong Kingston
Since the publication of The Woman Warrior in 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston has gained a reputation as one of the most popular — and controversial — writers in the Asian American literary tradition. …
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English
DRM
€16.62
Anshuman A. Mondal: Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is an authoritative critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent …
EPUB
English
DRM
€16.50
Don Randall: David Malouf
Don Randall’s comprehensive study situates Malouf within the field of contemporary international and postcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author’s affiliation with Australian …
EPUB
English
DRM
€16.69
Andrew Teverson: Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most important writers of politicised fiction. He is a self-proclaimed controversialist, capable of exciting radically divergent viewpoints, a novelist of …
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English
DRM
€19.16
Lee Spinks: Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje is the first comprehensive and fully up-to-date study of Ondaatje’s entire oeuvre. Starting from Ondaatje’s beginnings as a poet, this volume offers an intensive account of each of …
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English
DRM
€19.27
Susan Watkins: Doris Lessing
This study examines the writing career of the respected and prolific novelist Doris Lessing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and has recently published what she has announced …
EPUB
English
DRM
€20.44
Bruce Woodcock: Peter Carey
This is a revised and expanded edition of Woodcock’s accessible study, now including detailed readings of Carey’s latest novels, ‘Jack Maggs’ and ‘True History of the Kelly …
EPUB
English
DRM
€16.61
Abigail Ward: Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar
Slavery is a recurring subject in works by the contemporary black writers in Britain Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar, yet their return to this past arises from an urgent need to …
EPUB
English
DRM
€20.44
John Thieme: Postcolonial Con-Texts
In recent years works such as Jean Rhys”s Wide Sargasso Sea, J.M. Coetzee”s Foe and Peter Carey”s Jack Maggs, which ”write back” to classic English texts, have attracted considerable attention …
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€34.57