Fighting Words: Fifteen Books That Shaped the Postcolonial World

Book Overview

Can a book change the world? Fighting Words looks at how the book has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century. What emerges is a complex portrait of the vital and multifaceted role played by the book in both the formation and the form of anticolonial resistance, and the development of the postcolonial world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789974224
• ISBN13: 9781789974225
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"