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Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature

By: Gina Wisker

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Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature

By: Gina Wisker

Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature provides an overview of the main themes, issues and critical perspectives that have had the greatest effect on postcolonial literatures. Discussing historical, cultural and contextual background, it contains selected work of some of the major writers from this period.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0230208797

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9780230208797

Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing

A Critical Introduction

By: Gina Wisker

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Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing

A Critical Introduction

By: Gina Wisker

This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0333985249

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9780333985243

Working One-to-One with Students

Supervising, Coaching, Mentoring, and Personal Tutoring

By: Gina Wisker,Kate Exley,Maria Antoniou,Pauline Ridley

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Working One-to-One with Students

Supervising, Coaching, Mentoring, and Personal Tutoring

By: Gina Wisker,Kate Exley,Maria Antoniou,Pauline Ridley

Working One-to-One with Students is written for Higher Education academics, adjuncts, teaching assistants and research students who are looking for guidance inside and outside the classroom. This book is a jargon-free, practical guide to improving one-to-one teaching, covering a wide range of teaching contexts, including mentoring students and staff, supervising dissertations and how to approach informal meetings outside of lectures. Written in an engaging, accessible style and grounded in experience, this book offers a combination of practical advice backed by relevant learning theory. Featuring a wealth of case studies and useful resources, the book covers areas including: Supporting students; Encouraging independent learning; Mentoring coaching and personal tutoring; Developing peer groups and buddying programs; Dealing with diversity, difficult students and ethical dilemmas; supervising the undergraduate dissertation. Supervising postgraduates in the arts, social sciences and sciences. This book is a short, snappy, practical guide that covers this key element of a lecturer's work. In the spirit of the series (KEY GUIDES FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING in HIGHER EDUCATION) this book covers relevant theory that effectively informs practice.

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Routledge

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1134216203

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Horror Fiction

An Introduction

By: Gina Wisker

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Horror Fiction

An Introduction

By: Gina Wisker

This is a series of introductory books about different types of writing. One strand of the series focuses on genres such asScience Fiction, Horror, Romance, and Crime, and the other focuses on movements or styles often associated with historicaland cultural locations—Postcolonial, Native American, Scottish, Irish, American Gothic.Authors covered in this volume includeWilliam Peter Blatty, Ira Levine, BramStoker, Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter,Mary Shelley, Stephen King, Anne Rice,and Washington Irving.

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A&C Black

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082641561X

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9780826415615

Margaret Atwood: An Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction

By: Gina Wisker

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Margaret Atwood: An Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction

By: Gina Wisker

Margaret Atwood is an internationally renowned, highly versatile author whose work creatively explores what it means to be human through genres ranging from feminist fable to science fiction and Gothic romance. In this timely new study, Gina Wisker reassesses Atwood's entire fictional output to date, providing both original analysis and a lively overview of the criticism surrounding her work. Margaret Atwood: An Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction: - Covers all of Atwood's novels as well as her short stories. - Surveys the critical reception of her fiction and the fascinating debates developed by key Atwood critics. - Explores the main approaches to reading Atwood's work and examines issues such as her interventions in genre writing and ecology, as well as her feminism, post-feminism and narrative usage, both conventional and experimental. Concise and approachable, this is an ideal volume for anyone studying the fiction of this major contemporary writer.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0230357954

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9780230357952

Getting Published

Academic Publishing Success

By: Gina Wisker

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Getting Published

Academic Publishing Success

By: Gina Wisker

This comprehensive handbook will guide readers through the process of publishing their research. It helps readers to establish successful writing practices and habits which will enable them to write well, complete their work to a high standard and have their work published. Drawing on her experience as a writer, editor and supervisor, Gina Wisker covers the practicalities of writing and provides tried-and-tested techniques for managing time, overcoming writer's block and developing a confident academic voice. This book is ideal for postgraduates, academics, researchers and professionals wishing to write effectively and share their work with others through academic publication.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0230392113

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9780230392113

Getting Published

Academic Publishing Success

By: Gina Wisker

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Getting Published

Academic Publishing Success

By: Gina Wisker

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The Undergraduate Research Handbook

By: Gina Wisker

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The Undergraduate Research Handbook

By: Gina Wisker

This is a comprehensive guide to planning and producing high-quality dissertations, written assignments and project reports at undergraduate level. It supports students of all disciplines through each stage of the research process, from drafting questions and reviewing the literature through to collecting data and presenting their work. It provides practical guidance on common problems, including writer's block and managing deadlines, and contextualises this with examples of real students' experience of research. This text will be invaluable to undergraduate students undertaking academic research in all subject areas. New to this Edition: - Features new and updated content on the internet and critical thinking, and analytical skills in relation to developing and following through with a research agenda

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137341491

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The Postgraduate Research Handbook

Succeed with your MA, MPhil, EdD and PhD

By: Gina Wisker

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The Postgraduate Research Handbook

Succeed with your MA, MPhil, EdD and PhD

By: Gina Wisker

This lively and rigorous book provides guidance on planning and conducting postgraduate research. Divided into four parts, each of which looks at a different stage of the process, it covers everything from choosing a research area and selecting appropriate methodologies to analysing data and learning from feedback. Chapters contain both active and reflective tasks to help readers develop the skills needed to produce a high-quality dissertation or thesis and offer supportive advice on establishing successful working relationships with supervisors and peers. Clear and accessible in its approach, this book is an indispensable introduction to successful research for postgraduates of all disciplines. New to this Edition: - Fully revised and improved sections on methodology, theorising, engaging with the literature and life after research - Additional guidance on developing soft skills, such as communication and time management, and becoming an active member of the academic community

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0230364942

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9780230364943

Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing

A Critical Introduction

By: Gina Wisker

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Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing

A Critical Introduction

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Horror Fiction

An Introduction

By: Gina Wisker

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Horror Fiction

An Introduction

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Angela Carter

A Beginner's Guide

By: Gina Wisker

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Angela Carter

A Beginner's Guide

By: Gina Wisker

This guide gives readers of Angela Carter a sense of the variety and richness of her work. Her writing is amusing, ironic, and Gothic, providing a critique of the gender and power relations amongst which we live and through which we create our identities.

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0340857382

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Contemporary Women’s Ghost Stories

Spectres, Revenants, Ghostly Returns

By: Gina Wisker

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Contemporary Women’s Ghost Stories

Spectres, Revenants, Ghostly Returns

By: Gina Wisker

This book offers new insights on socially and culturally engaged Gothic ghost stories by twentieth century and contemporary female writers; including Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Ali Smith, Susan Hill, Catherine Lim, Kate Mosse, Daphne du Maurier, Helen Dunmore, Michele Roberts, and Zheng Cho. Through the ghostly body, possessions and visitations, women’s ghost stories expose links between the political and personal, genocides and domestic tyrannies, providing unceasing reminders of violence and violations. Women, like ghosts, have historically lurked in the background, incarcerated in domestic spaces and roles by familial and hereditary norms. They have been disenfranchised legally and politically, sold on dreams of romance and domesticity. Like unquiet spirits that cannot be silenced, women’s ghost stories speak the unspeakable, revealing these contradictions and oppressions. Wisker’s book demonstrates that in terms of women’s ghost stories, there is much to point the spectral finger at and much to speak out about.

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Springer Nature

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3030890546

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9783030890544

Margaret Atwood: An Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction

By: Gina Wisker

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1350310549

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Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

By: Gina Wisker

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Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

By: Gina Wisker

Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel A Handmaid's Tale, engages the reader with a broad range of issues relating to power, gender and religious politics. This guide provides an overview of the key critical debates and interpretations of the novel and encourages you to engage with key questions and readings in your reading of the text. It includes discussion of key themes and concepts including: - Representation of women's roles, gender, sexuality and power - Language, style and form - Dystopias and genre fictions - Power, control and religious fundamentalism. Combining helpful guidance on reading Atwood's text with overviews of significant stylistic and thematic issues and an introduction to criticism, this is an ideal companion to reading and studying A Handmaid's Tale.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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144110352X

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9781441103529

Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction

Carnival, Hauntings and Vampire Kisses

By: Gina Wisker

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Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction

Carnival, Hauntings and Vampire Kisses

By: Gina Wisker

This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers. It makes a scholarly, lively and convincing case that the Gothic makes horror respectable, and establishes contemporary women’s Gothic fictions in and against traditional Gothic. The book provides new, engaging perspectives on established contemporary women Gothic writers, with a particular focus on Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. It explores how the Gothic is malleable in their hands and is used to demythologise oppressions based on difference in gender and ethnicity. The study presents new Gothic work and new nuances, critiques of dangerous complacency and radical questionings of what is safe and conformist in works as diverse as Twilight (Stephenie Meyer) and A Girl Walks Home Alone (Ana Lily Amirpur), as well as by Anne Rice and Poppy Brite. It also introduces and critically explores postcolonial, vampire and neohistorical Gothic and women’s ghost stories.

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Springer

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1137303492

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9781137303493

Toni Morrison

A Beginner's Guide

By: Gina Wisker

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Toni Morrison

A Beginner's Guide

By: Gina Wisker

This title introduces the reader to the life and works of Toni Morrison, the African American female author whose most successful works include Beloved, Song of Solomon and Jazz. Discover how the Nobel Prize-winning author uses storytelling, imagery, and the voice of communities and individuals as she explores and reveals the energies, hardships, and experiences of black women and men.

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Hodder Education

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0340846178

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9780340846179

Teaching African American Women’s Writing

By: G. Wisker

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Teaching African American Women’s Writing

By: G. Wisker

The essays in Teaching African American Women's Writing provide reflections on issues, problems and pleasures raised by studying the texts. They will be of use to those teaching and studying African American women's writing in colleges, universities and adult education groups as well as teachers involved in teaching in schools to A level.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1137203234

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9781137203236

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