Helen Tiffin
Biographic Data
| ID | 183512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Tiffin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Tiffin |
| SIGNATURE | TIFFIN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts
Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize postcolonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition contains more than 30 new entries, including: Anthropocene Biopolitics Decoloniality Ecocriticism Global South Postcolonial scien…
Foot in Mouth: Animals, Disease, and the Cannibal Complex
Although the title of this paper invokes a disease of sheep as well as cattle, my primary concern is with the outbreak of another illness whose history in animal \n(and human) populations is more cryptic and more recent: so-called “mad cow” disease, or BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy). Both the 2001 foot and mouth \nscourge in Britain and “mad cow” disease were (and are) widely represented in the media as disasters or catastrophes, in the c…
Imagining Orangutans: Fictions, Fantasies, Futures
Roundtable on Interdisciplinarity
The following roundtable discussion took place at the University of Queensland, Australia on 12 June 2001 as the concluding session of the No Sense of Discipline conference. The discussion brought together Mosaic Editor Dawne McCance (DM) with conference plenary speakers Sander Gilman (SG), Linda Hutcheon (LH), Michael Hutcheon (MH), and Helen Tiffin (HT). Mosaic is pleased to publish this roundtable discussion, which originally appeared in Mosai…
Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment
This second edition of Postcolonial Ecocriticism, a book foundational for its field, has been updated to consider recent developments in the area such as environmental humanities and animal studies. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin examine transverse relations between humans, animals and the environment across a wide range of postcolonial literary texts and also address key issues such as global warming, food security, human over-population in the …
Wild Man from Borneo: A Cultural History of the Orangutan
Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts
This hugely popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. For this third edition over thirty new entries have been added including: Cosmopolitanism Development Fundamentalism Nostalgia Post-colonial cinema Sustainability Trafficking World Englishes. Po…
Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts
This best selling key guide, now in its second edition, provides an essential key to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism; explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities. As a subject, post-colonial studies stands at the intersection of debates about race, colonialism, gender, politics and language. Key topics covered include: Borderlands Transnational literatures Ne…
L’Empire vous répond: Théories et pratiques des littératures post-coloniales
Voici la traduction en français d’un essai dont la version originale anglophone, The Empire Writes Back, a rencontré depuis sa parution en 1989 un écho considérable dans le monde des lettres et même au-delà. De façon stimulante, les trois chercheurs associés dans cette entreprise y ont en effet synthétisé et théorisé le concept devenu célèbre de post-colonialité. Celui-ci rend compte à la fois de l’impact déterminant des grandes colonisations eur…
Dogs, Meat and Douglas Mawson
When the Aurora, the ship used to convey the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), left London on the first leg of its journey in late July 1911, its departure was accompanied by an unsettling sound. One of those on board, Lieutenant B.E
Postcolonial Ecocriticism
In Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin examine relationships between humans, animals and the environment in postcolonial texts. Divided into two sections that consider the postcolonial first from an environmental and then a zoocritical perspective, the book looks at: narratives of development in postcolonial writing entitlement and belonging in the pastoral genre colonialist 'asset stripping' and the Christian mission the po…
Five Emus to the King of Siam: Environment and Empire
Western exploitation of other peoples is inseparable from attitudes and practices relating to other species and the extra-human environment generally. Colonial depredations turn on such terms as ‘human’, ‘savage’, ‘civilised’, ‘natural’, ‘progressive’, and on the legitimacies governing apprehension and control of space and landscape. Environmental impacts were reinforced, in patterns of unequal ‘exchange’, by the transport of animals, plants and …
Green Postcolonialism
The incursion of Europeans into other areas of the world from the fifteenth century onwards catastrophically resulted in genocide or the dispossession and marginalization of indigenous peoples across the globe. It also caused drastic changes in extra-European temperate as well as tropical environments. As Alfred Crosby argues, environmental impact in the form of disease human, plant and animal forest felling, the casual or systematic slaughter of…
Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader
Theorising Colonised Cultures and Anti-Colonial Resistance 2. Theorising the West: Theorising Gender 3. Theorising Post-Coloniality: Intellectuals and Institutions 4. Theorising Post-Coloniality: Discourse and Identity 5. Reading from Theory Bibliography
Cold Hearts and (Foreign) Tongues: Recitation and the Reclamation of the Female Body in the Works of Erna Brodber and Jamaica Kincaid
Helen Tiffin, Cold Hearts and (Foreign) Tongues: Recitation and the Reclamation of the Female Body in the Works of Erna Brodber and Jamaica Kincaid, Callaloo, Vol. 16, No. 4, On "Post-Colonial Discourse": A Special Issue (Autumn, 1993), pp. 909-921
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures
Alrene Sykes
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures
The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture. The Empire Writes Back was the first major theoreti…
Post-Colonialism, Post-Modernism and the Rehabilitation of Post-Colonial History
Asia and the Contemporary Australian Novel
Discusses the growing (and shifting) interest of Australian writers in Asian cultures, religions and philosophies and gives an overview of the representation of Asia in some recent Australian novels. Argues that earlier Australian novels â saw Asia simply as an exotic background for adventure romanceâ , whereas more recent fiction has reflected more complex attitudes towards Asia and has started to explore Asian philosophies and cultures for elem…
Metaphysics and literary form: Advaita Vedānta in three novels of Raja Rao
(1983). Metaphysics and literary form: Advaita Vedānta in three novels of Raja Rao. Religion: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 359-374
Asia, Europe and Australian Identity: The Novels of Christopher Koch
Like Patrick White and Randolph Stow. Christopher Koch explores in his fiction the post-colonial Australian identity, not in an exclusively political sense, but rather in its spiritual and metaphysical ramifications. While all three novelists have constantly dealt with aspects of this theme. Koch has seemed most conscious of the vestigial European inheritance and the increasing Asian perspectives in shaping the Australian spirit
Melanesian Cargo Cults in Tourmaline and Visitants
Green Postcolonialism
The incursion of Europeans into other areas of the world from the fifteenth century onwards catastrophically resulted in genocide or the dispossession and marginalization of indigenous peoples across the globe. It also caused drastic changes in extra-European temperate as well as tropical environments. As Alfred Crosby argues, environmental impact in the form of disease human, plant and animal forest felling, the casual or systematic slaughter of…
Post-Colonialism, Post-Modernism and the Rehabilitation of Post-Colonial History
Five Emus to the King of Siam: Environment and Empire
Western exploitation of other peoples is inseparable from attitudes and practices relating to other species and the extra-human environment generally. Colonial depredations turn on such terms as ‘human’, ‘savage’, ‘civilised’, ‘natural’, ‘progressive’, and on the legitimacies governing apprehension and control of space and landscape. Environmental impacts were reinforced, in patterns of unequal ‘exchange’, by the transport of animals, plants and …
Cold Hearts and (Foreign) Tongues: Recitation and the Reclamation of the Female Body in the Works of Erna Brodber and Jamaica Kincaid
Helen Tiffin, Cold Hearts and (Foreign) Tongues: Recitation and the Reclamation of the Female Body in the Works of Erna Brodber and Jamaica Kincaid, Callaloo, Vol. 16, No. 4, On "Post-Colonial Discourse": A Special Issue (Autumn, 1993), pp. 909-921
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures
Asia and the Contemporary Australian Novel
Discusses the growing (and shifting) interest of Australian writers in Asian cultures, religions and philosophies and gives an overview of the representation of Asia in some recent Australian novels. Argues that earlier Australian novels â saw Asia simply as an exotic background for adventure romanceâ , whereas more recent fiction has reflected more complex attitudes towards Asia and has started to explore Asian philosophies and cultures for elem…
Asia, Europe and Australian Identity: The Novels of Christopher Koch
Like Patrick White and Randolph Stow. Christopher Koch explores in his fiction the post-colonial Australian identity, not in an exclusively political sense, but rather in its spiritual and metaphysical ramifications. While all three novelists have constantly dealt with aspects of this theme. Koch has seemed most conscious of the vestigial European inheritance and the increasing Asian perspectives in shaping the Australian spirit
Melanesian Cargo Cults in Tourmaline and Visitants
Melanesian Cargo Cults in Tourmaline and Visitants
Asia, Europe and Australian Identity: The Novels of Christopher Koch
Like Patrick White and Randolph Stow. Christopher Koch explores in his fiction the post-colonial Australian identity, not in an exclusively political sense, but rather in its spiritual and metaphysical ramifications. While all three novelists have constantly dealt with aspects of this theme. Koch has seemed most conscious of the vestigial European inheritance and the increasing Asian perspectives in shaping the Australian spirit
Metaphysics and literary form: Advaita Vedānta in three novels of Raja Rao
(1983). Metaphysics and literary form: Advaita Vedānta in three novels of Raja Rao. Religion: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 359-374
Asia and the Contemporary Australian Novel
Discusses the growing (and shifting) interest of Australian writers in Asian cultures, religions and philosophies and gives an overview of the representation of Asia in some recent Australian novels. Argues that earlier Australian novels â saw Asia simply as an exotic background for adventure romanceâ , whereas more recent fiction has reflected more complex attitudes towards Asia and has started to explore Asian philosophies and cultures for elem…
Post-Colonialism, Post-Modernism and the Rehabilitation of Post-Colonial History
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures
The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture. The Empire Writes Back was the first major theoreti…
Alrene Sykes
The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures
Cold Hearts and (Foreign) Tongues: Recitation and the Reclamation of the Female Body in the Works of Erna Brodber and Jamaica Kincaid
Helen Tiffin, Cold Hearts and (Foreign) Tongues: Recitation and the Reclamation of the Female Body in the Works of Erna Brodber and Jamaica Kincaid, Callaloo, Vol. 16, No. 4, On "Post-Colonial Discourse": A Special Issue (Autumn, 1993), pp. 909-921
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader
Theorising Colonised Cultures and Anti-Colonial Resistance 2. Theorising the West: Theorising Gender 3. Theorising Post-Coloniality: Intellectuals and Institutions 4. Theorising Post-Coloniality: Discourse and Identity 5. Reading from Theory Bibliography
Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts
Five Emus to the King of Siam: Environment and Empire
Western exploitation of other peoples is inseparable from attitudes and practices relating to other species and the extra-human environment generally. Colonial depredations turn on such terms as ‘human’, ‘savage’, ‘civilised’, ‘natural’, ‘progressive’, and on the legitimacies governing apprehension and control of space and landscape. Environmental impacts were reinforced, in patterns of unequal ‘exchange’, by the transport of animals, plants and …
Green Postcolonialism
The incursion of Europeans into other areas of the world from the fifteenth century onwards catastrophically resulted in genocide or the dispossession and marginalization of indigenous peoples across the globe. It also caused drastic changes in extra-European temperate as well as tropical environments. As Alfred Crosby argues, environmental impact in the form of disease human, plant and animal forest felling, the casual or systematic slaughter of…
Postcolonial Ecocriticism
In Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin examine relationships between humans, animals and the environment in postcolonial texts. Divided into two sections that consider the postcolonial first from an environmental and then a zoocritical perspective, the book looks at: narratives of development in postcolonial writing entitlement and belonging in the pastoral genre colonialist 'asset stripping' and the Christian mission the po…
Dogs, Meat and Douglas Mawson
When the Aurora, the ship used to convey the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), left London on the first leg of its journey in late July 1911, its departure was accompanied by an unsettling sound. One of those on board, Lieutenant B.E
L’Empire vous répond: Théories et pratiques des littératures post-coloniales
Voici la traduction en français d’un essai dont la version originale anglophone, The Empire Writes Back, a rencontré depuis sa parution en 1989 un écho considérable dans le monde des lettres et même au-delà. De façon stimulante, les trois chercheurs associés dans cette entreprise y ont en effet synthétisé et théorisé le concept devenu célèbre de post-colonialité. Celui-ci rend compte à la fois de l’impact déterminant des grandes colonisations eur…
Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts
This hugely popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. For this third edition over thirty new entries have been added including: Cosmopolitanism Development Fundamentalism Nostalgia Post-colonial cinema Sustainability Trafficking World Englishes. Po…
Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts
This best selling key guide, now in its second edition, provides an essential key to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism; explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities. As a subject, post-colonial studies stands at the intersection of debates about race, colonialism, gender, politics and language. Key topics covered include: Borderlands Transnational literatures Ne…
Wild Man from Borneo: A Cultural History of the Orangutan
Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment
This second edition of Postcolonial Ecocriticism, a book foundational for its field, has been updated to consider recent developments in the area such as environmental humanities and animal studies. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin examine transverse relations between humans, animals and the environment across a wide range of postcolonial literary texts and also address key issues such as global warming, food security, human over-population in the …
Imagining Orangutans: Fictions, Fantasies, Futures
Roundtable on Interdisciplinarity
The following roundtable discussion took place at the University of Queensland, Australia on 12 June 2001 as the concluding session of the No Sense of Discipline conference. The discussion brought together Mosaic Editor Dawne McCance (DM) with conference plenary speakers Sander Gilman (SG), Linda Hutcheon (LH), Michael Hutcheon (MH), and Helen Tiffin (HT). Mosaic is pleased to publish this roundtable discussion, which originally appeared in Mosai…
Foot in Mouth: Animals, Disease, and the Cannibal Complex
Although the title of this paper invokes a disease of sheep as well as cattle, my primary concern is with the outbreak of another illness whose history in animal \n(and human) populations is more cryptic and more recent: so-called “mad cow” disease, or BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy). Both the 2001 foot and mouth \nscourge in Britain and “mad cow” disease were (and are) widely represented in the media as disasters or catastrophes, in the c…
Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts
Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize postcolonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition contains more than 30 new entries, including: Anthropocene Biopolitics Decoloniality Ecocriticism Global South Postcolonial scien…
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