03783nam 22007695 450 991081162800332120200919103219.01-137-51899-510.1007/978-1-137-51899-6(CKB)3710000000653376(SSID)ssj0001668781(PQKBManifestationID)16459584(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001668781(PQKBWorkID)12093034(PQKB)10830865(DE-He213)978-1-137-51899-6(MiAaPQ)EBC4716622(EXLCZ)99371000000065337620160203d2015 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtccrAfrica's Narrative Geographies[electronic resource] Charting the Intersections of Geocriticism and Postcolonial Studies /by D. Crowley1st ed. 2015.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2015.1 online resource (X, 192 p.)Geocriticism and Spatial Literary StudiesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-137-52275-5 1-349-70618-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Geocriticism and Spatial Literary StudiesLiterature, Modern—20th centuryLiterature   African literatureFictionLiterature—History and criticismLiterature—PhilosophyTwentieth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000Postcolonial/World Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/838000African Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/829000Fictionhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/825000Literary Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/813000Literary Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000AfricaIn literatureLiterature, Modern—20th century.Literature   .African literature.Fiction.Literature—History and criticism.Literature—Philosophy.Twentieth-Century Literature.Postcolonial/World Literature.African Literature.Fiction.Literary History.Literary Theory.809/.8996Crowley Dauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1606253BOOK9910811628003321Africa's Narrative Geographies3931947UNINA