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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798123203321

Autore

Crowley D

Titolo

Africa's Narrative Geographies [[electronic resource] ] : Charting the Intersections of Geocriticism and Postcolonial Studies / / by D. Crowley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015

ISBN

1-137-51899-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 192 p.)

Collana

Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies

Disciplina

809/.8996

Soggetti

Literature, Modern—20th century

Literature   

African literature

Fiction

Literature—History and criticism

Literature—Philosophy

Twentieth-Century Literature

Postcolonial/World Literature

African Literature

Literary History

Literary Theory

Africa In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Charting a path for geocriticism -- My Black land : Senghor's construction of Africa -- Place and scale in Ngugi's universal garden -- Imagining the global village : Bessie Head's narratives of migration and boundaries -- Cosmopolitan Somalia : place and identity in Farah's Maps and Links -- Half slum, half paradise : Abani's global cities -- Conclusion. The landscape of geocritical inquiry : finding common ground for geocriticism and ecocriticism.

Sommario/riassunto

Building on the emerging field of geocriticism, this book explores Africa's complex, dynamic literary landscapes, proffering new methods for understanding the geographies of African literature. Using both



cultural geography and political ecology, Crowley offers fresh insights into key authors' imagined geographies of resistance and alterity.