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N E W I N PA P E R B A C K Imagining London Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis John Clement Ball London was once the hub of an empire on which ‘the sun never set.’ After the Second World War, as Britain withdrew from most of its colonies, the city that once possessed the world began to contain a diasporic world that was increasingly taking possession of it. Drawing on postcolonial theories, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives from cultural geography, urban theory, history, and sociology, Imagining London examines representations of the English metropolis in Canadian, West Indian, Indian, and second-generation ‘black British’ novels written in the last half of the twentieth century. It analyses the diverse ways in which London is experienced and portrayed as a transnational space by Commonwealth expatriates and migrants. As the former ‘heart of empire’ and a contemporary ‘world city,’ London metonymically represents the British Empire in two distinct ways. In the early years of decolonization, it was a primarily white city that symbolized imperial power and history. Over time, as migrants from former colonies have ‘reinvaded the centre’ and changed its demographic and cultural constitution, it has come to represent empire as a global microcosm and profoundly relational locale. John Clement Ball examines the work of more than twenty writers, including established authors such as Robertson Davies, Mordecai Richler, Jean Rhys, Sam Selvon, V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, and Salman Rushdie, and newer voices such as Catherine Bush, David Dabydeen, Amitav Ghosh, Hanif Kureishi, and Zadie Smith. John Clement Ball is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick. LITERARY STUDIES / CULTURAL STUDIES 265 pp / 6 x 9 / Available ISBN 0-8020-9455-4 / 978-0-8020-9455-1 £14.95 $27.95 C Originally published in cloth: June 2004 Gramsci’s Politics of Language Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School Peter Ives CULTURAL SPACES. WINNER OF THE RAYMOND KLIBANSKY PRIZE Antonio Gramsci and his concept of hegemony have permeated social and political theory, cultural studies, education studies, literary criticism, international relations, and post-colonial theory. The centrality of language and linguistics to Gramsci’s thought, however, has been wholly neglected. In Gramsci’s Politics of Language, Peter Ives argues that a university education in linguistics and a preoccupation with Italian language politics were integral to the theorist’s thought. Ives explores how the combination of Marxism and linguistics produced a unique and intellectually powerful approach to social and political analysis. To explicate Gramsci’s writings on language, Ives compares them with other Marxist approaches to language, including those of the Bakhtin Circle, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt School, including Jürgen Habermas. From these comparisons, Ives elucidates the implications of Gramsci’s writings, which, he argues, retained the explanatory power of the semiotic and dialogic insights of Bakhtin and the critical perspective of the Frankfurt School, while at the same time foreshadowing the key problems with both approaches that post-structuralist critiques would later reveal. Gramsci’s Politics of Language fills a crucial gap in scholarship, linking Gramsci’s writings to current debates in social theory and providing a framework for a thoroughly historical-materialist approach to language. Peter Ives is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Winnipeg. POLITICS / CULTURAL STUDIES 288 pp / 6 x 9 / May 2006 ISBN 0-8020-9444-9 / 978-0-8020-9444-5 £18.00 $27.95 C Originally published in cloth: May 2004 12
N E W I N PA P E R B A C K Theorizing Historical Consciousness Edited by Peter Seixas Our understanding of the past, or ‘historical consciousness,’ shapes our sense of the present and the future. But while both academic history and public history are thriving enterprises, there has been little investigation of how people make sense of the past, or how their understanding shapes their current identities and their sense of possibilities for the future. With Theorizing Historical Consciousness, Peter Seixas has brought together a group of international scholars to address issues related to collective memory and historical consciousness from the perspectives of a number of disciplines, including history, historiography, philosophy, psychology, and education. From a practical standpoint, historical consciousness has serious implications for international relations, reparations claims, fiscal initiatives, immigration, and indeed almost every contentious area of public policy, collective identity, and personal experience. Current policy debates are laced with mutually incompatible historical analogies, and identity politics generate conflicting historical accounts. Never has the idea of a straightforward ‘one history fits all’ been less workable. The volume addresses this complexity through examination and comparison of various theoretical approaches to the study of historical consciousness, thus enabling us to chart the future study of how people understand the past. An Irish Working Class Explorations in Political Economy and Hegemony, 1800–1950 Marilyn Silverman ANTHROPOLOGICAL HORIZONS In An Irish Working Class, Marilyn Silverman explores the dynamics of capitalism, colonialism, and state formation through an examination of the political economy and culture of those who contributed their labour. Stemming from the author’s academic research on Ireland for over two decades, the book combines archival data, interviews, and participant observation to create a unique and intricate study of labourers’ lives in Thomastown, County Kilkenny, between 1800 and 1950. Political anthropology, Gramscian approaches to hegemony, and the work of social historians on class experience all inform Silverman’s perspective in this volume. Silverman explores the complex and changing consciousness, politics, and social relations of a cross-section of workers. These workers were employed in the mills, tanneries, artisanal shops, and retail outlets, and on the landed estates, farms, and public works projects which typified this highly differentiated locality. In constructing the social history of workers in a particular place over time, An Irish Working Class makes an important contribution to Irish Studies, European historical ethnography, and the anthropology of working-class life. Marilyn Silverman is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University. Peter Seixas is the director of the Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness and a professor and Canada Research Chair in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. HISTORY ANTHROPOLOGY 240 pp / 6 x 9 / Available 4 figures; 1 table ISBN 0-8020-9457-0 / 978-0-8020-9457-5 £18.00 $27.50 C Originally published in cloth: October 2004 560 pp / 6 x 9 / May 2006 ISBN 0-8020-9451-1 / 978-0-8020-9451-3 £19.95 $35.00 C Originally published in cloth: October 2001 13
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