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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829095703321

Titolo

Postcolonial spaces : the politics of place in contemporary culture / / edited by Andrew Teverson, Sara Upstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

ISBN

1-283-31822-9

9786613318220

0-230-34251-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Classificazione

LIT012000LIT007000LIT000000

Altri autori (Persone)

TeversonAndrew

UpstoneSara

Disciplina

828/.9140803582

Soggetti

Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism

Space in literature

Geography in literature

Place (Philosophy) in literature

Postcolonialism - Commonwealth countries

Postcolonialism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 English somewheres: Caryl Phillips and the English North; 2 A few words about the role of the Cartographers: Mapping and postcolonial resistance in Peter Carey's 'Do You Love Me?'; 3 'How does your garden grow?' or Jamaica Kincaid's spatial praxis in My Garden (Book): and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya; 4 Gender and space in postcolonial fiction: South Asian novelists re-imagining women's spatial boundaries; 5 From hijab to sweatshops: Segregated bodies and contested space in Monica Ali's Brick Lane

6 Overlapping space and the negotiation of cultural identity: Children's literature from the South Asian diaspora7 Owning the city: Screening postcolonial Bombay in Milan Luthria's Taxi 9 2 11: Nau Do Gyarah; 8 Postcolonial purgatory: The space of migrancy in Dirty Pretty Things; 9 Third space, abstract space and coloniality: National and subaltern



cartography in Ecuador; 10 Security, territory, and colonial populations: Town and empire in Foucault's 1978 lecture course; 11 The geography of theory: Knowledge, politics and the postcolonial present; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

With essays from a range of geographies and bringing together influential scholars across a range of disciplines, this book focuses on the role of space in the study of the politics of contemporary postcolonial experience, engaging with the spectrum of postcolonial spatialities which play a significant role in defining global postcolonial culture.