03365nam 22008055 450 991095735970332120240322042045.09781137518996113751899510.1007/978-1-137-51899-6(CKB)3710000000653376(SSID)ssj0001668781(PQKBManifestationID)16459584(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001668781(PQKBWorkID)12093034(PQKB)10830865(DE-He213)978-1-137-51899-6(MiAaPQ)EBC4716622(Perlego)3499175(EXLCZ)99371000000065337620160203d2015 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtccrAfrica's Narrative Geographies 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 Studies,2634-5188Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781137522757 1137522755 9781349706181 1349706183 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 Studies,2634-5188Literature, Modern20th centuryLiteratureAfrican literatureFictionLiteratureHistory and criticismLiteraturePhilosophyTwentieth-Century LiteratureWorld LiteratureAfrican LiteratureFiction LiteratureLiterary HistoryLiterary TheoryLiterature, ModernLiterature.African literature.Fiction.LiteratureHistory and criticism.LiteraturePhilosophy.Twentieth-Century Literature.World Literature.African Literature.Fiction Literature.Literary History.Literary Theory.809/.8996Crowley Dauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1791348BOOK9910957359703321Africa's Narrative Geographies4328619UNINA