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1 4 y separately published work icon We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think : Selected Essays Shirley Hazzard , Brigitta Olubas (editor), New York (City) : Columbia University Press , 2016 9357161 2016 selected work essay

'These nonfiction works span from the 1960s to the 2000s and were produced by one of the great fiction writers of the period. They add critical depth to Shirley Hazzard's creative world and encapsulate her extensive and informed thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They also offer greater access to her brilliant craftsmanship and the multiple registers in which her writings operate. Hazzard writes about the manifold failings of the United Nations, where she worked in the early 1950s. She shares her personal experience with the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombings and the nature of life in late-1940s Hong Kong. She presents her thoughts on the decline of the hero as a public figure in Western literature. These works contribute to a keener understanding of postwar letters, thought, and politics, supported by an introduction that situates Hazzard's writing within its historical context and emphasizes her influence on world literature. This collection confirms Hazzard's place within a network of writers, artists, and intellectuals who believe in the ongoing power of literature to console, inspire, and direct human life, despite - or maybe because of - the world's disheartening realities.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Rites of Return: Disapora Poetics and the Politics of Memory Marianne Hirsch (editor), Nancy K. Miller (editor), New York (City) : Columbia University Press , 2011 Z1886451 2011 anthology criticism
1 y separately published work icon Chinese Women's Cinema : Transnational Contexts Lingzhen Wang (editor), United States of America (USA) : Columbia University Press , 2011 11380072 2011 anthology criticism

'The first of its kind in English, this collection explores twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen scholars illuminate these filmmakers' negotiations of local and global politics, cinematic representation, and issues of gender and sexuality, covering works from the 1920s to the present. Writing from the disciplines of Asian, women's, film, and auteur studies, contributors reclaim the work of Esther Eng, Tang Shu Shuen, Dong Kena, and Sylvia Chang, among others, who have transformed Chinese cinematic modernity.'

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1 2 y separately published work icon J.M. Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives on Literature Anton Leist (editor), Peter Singer (editor), New York (City) : Columbia University Press , 2010 Z1743805 2010 anthology criticism

'In 2003, the South African writer J.M. Coetzee was awarded the Novel Prize in Literature for his riveting portrayals of racial repression, sexual politics, the guises of reason, and the hypocrisy of human beings toward animals and nature. Coetzee was credited with being "a scrupulous doubter, ruthless in his criticism of the cruel rationalism and cosmetic morality of western civilization." The film of his novel Disgrace, starring John Malkovich, brought his challenging ideas to a new audience. Anton Leist and Peter Singer have assembled an outstanding group of contributors who probe deeply into Coetzee's extensive wand extraordinary corpus. They explore his approach to ethical theory and philosophy and pay particular attention to his representation of the human-animal relationship. They also confront Coetzee's depiction of the elementary conditions of life, the origins of morality, the recognition of value in others, the sexual dynamics between men and women, the normality of suppression, and the possibility of equality in postcolonial society. With its wide-ranging consideration of philosophical issues, especially in relations to fiction, this volume stands alone in its extraordinary exchange of ethical and literary inquiry.' (Publisher's summary)

1 y separately published work icon Reaches of Empire : the English Novel from Edgeworth to Dickens Suvendrini Perera , New York (State) : Columbia University Press , 1991 Z1392965 1991 single work criticism
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