Textual Traffic

Textual TrafficExamines travel narratives as a genre. In Textual Traffic, S. Shankar clarifies notions of modernity and postmodernity by lucidly examining their relationship to colonialism. In the process, he challenges current emphases in cultural criticism through an exploration of what it means to regard the text as an economy and carries out a detailed scrutiny of travel narratives as a genre. Paying particular attention to representations of Africa and India,

"–Omar El Akkad

Presents a range of scholarly analyses of how George Bush and Tony Blair used (or misused) intelligence about WMD in taking their countries to war in Iraq

Taking an interdisciplinary and global perspective

Three of the translated texts are fiction

he shows how the passing of modernity is actually an opening for doing metaphysics in a new nonfoundationalist manner

Martin Heidegger claims that the history of metaphysics is the history of the oblivion of being while holding that his "fundamental ontology" presents a "genuine phenomenological account that attempts to overcome metaphysics

a failed playwright

After a foray into key terms-rhetoric

” the collection’s opening story

including discussion questions and learning activities

the white townspeople

expertly written and illustrated