Laura Barberan Reinares - Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature: Transnational Narratives From Joyce to Bolano

Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature

At present, the bulk of the existing research on sex trafficking originates in the social sciences. Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature adds an original perspective on this issue by examining representations of sex trafficking in postcolonial literature.

This book is a sustained interdisciplinary study bridging postcolonial literature, in English and Spanish, and sex trafficking, as analyzed through literary theory, anthropology, sociology, history, trauma theory, journalism, and globalization studies. It encompasses postcolonial theory and literatures aesthetic analysis of sex trafficking together with research from social sciences, psychology, anthropology, and economics with the intention of offering a comprehensive analysis of the topic beyond the type of Orientalist discourse so prevalent in the media. This is an important and innovative resource for scholars in literature, postcolonial studies, gender studies, human rights and global justice.

Laura Barbern Reinares is an Assistant Professor of English and Literature at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She has published an award-winning article on feminism, globalization and trafficking in the South Atlantic Review, as well as articles on postcolonial literature and pedagogy in the journals the James Joyce Quarterly, Irish Migration Studies in Latin America and College Teaching.

ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH IN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES

Edited in collaboration with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, this series presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the field. Volumes will concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonized areas, and will include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures. Series editors: Donna Landry and Caroline Rooney.

1. Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a Third Eye by Brenda Cooper

2. The Postcolonial Jane Austen edited by You-Me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

3. Contemporary Caribbean Womens Poetry: Making Style by Denisede Caires Narain

4. African Literature, Animism and Politics by Caroline Rooney

5. CaribbeanEnglish Passages: Intertextuality in a Postcolonial Tradition by Tobias Dring

6. Islands in History and Representation edited by Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith

7. Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 18221922 by Anindyo Roy

8. Women Writing the West Indies, 18041939: A Hot Place, Belonging To Us by Evelyn OCallaghan

9. Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations of the body by Michelle Keown

10. Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction by Sue Kossew

11. Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence by Priyamvada Gopal

12. Postcolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of Empire by Terry Collits

13. American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination by Paul Lyons

14. Decolonizing Culture in the Pacific: Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction by Susan Y. Najita

15. Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance and the Politics of Place by Minoli Salgado

16. Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary by Vijay Mishra

17. Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English by Neelam Srivastava

18. English Writing and India, 16001920: Colonizing Aesthetics by Pramod K. Nayar

19. Decolonising Gender: Literature, Enlightenment and the Feminine Real by Caroline Rooney

20. Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography by David Huddart

21. Contemporary Arab Women Writers by Anastasia Valassopoulos

22. Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire by Ben Grant

23. Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture by Stefan Helgesson

24. Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa by James Graham

25. Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden by Sharae Deckard

26. The Idea of the Antipodes: Place, People, and Voices by Matthew Boyd Goldie

27. Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation edited by Sorcha Gunne and Zo Brigley Thompson

28. Locating Transnational Ideals edited by Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio

29. Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature: Remitting the Text by Kezia Page

30. Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present by Sara Salih

31. Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation and Memory by Dennis Walder

32. Publishing the Postcolonial: Anglophone West African and Caribbean Writing in the UK 19481968 by Gail Low

33. Postcolonial Tourism: Literature, Culture, and Environment by Anthony Carrigan

34. The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay by Rashmi Varma

35. Terrorism and Insurgency in Indian-English Literature: Writing Violence and Empire by Alex Tickell

36. The Postcolonial Gramsci edited by Neelam Srivastava and Baidik Bhattacharya

37. Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception edited by Bethan Benwell, James Procter and Gemma Robinson

38. Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing, edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin

39. Edward Saids Translocations: Essays in Secular Criticism, edited by Tobias Dring and Mark Stein

40. Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East: Rethinking the Liminal in Mashriqi Writing by Norbert Bugeja

41. Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Womens Literature edited by Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai

42. Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective by Anna Ball

43. Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres edited by Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio

44. Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema and Music, edited by Karima Laachir and Saeed Talajooy

45. The Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature by Manav Ratti

46. Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook, edited by Walid El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman

47. The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut edited by Caroline Rooney and Rita Sakr

48. Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdies Novels and the Cinematic Imagination by Florian Stadtler

49. Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures: Multilingual Contexts, Translational Texts, edited by Simona Bertacco

50. Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance by Filippo Menozzi

51. Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bolao by Laura Barbern Reinares

Related Titles:

Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation by Bart Moore-Gilbert

Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature

Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bolao

Laura Barbern Reinares