LEADER 03365nam 22008055 450 001 9910957359703321 005 20240322042045.0 010 $a9781137518996 010 $a1137518995 024 7 $a10.1007/978-1-137-51899-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000653376 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001668781 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16459584 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001668781 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12093034 035 $a(PQKB)10830865 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-51899-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4716622 035 $a(Perlego)3499175 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000653376 100 $a20160203d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfrica's Narrative Geographies $eCharting the Intersections of Geocriticism and Postcolonial Studies /$fby D. Crowley 205 $a1st ed. 2015. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (X, 192 p.) 225 1 $aGeocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,$x2634-5188 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781137522757 311 08$a1137522755 311 08$a9781349706181 311 08$a1349706183 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction. 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. 330 $aBuilding on the emerging field of geocriticism, this book explores Africa's complex, dynamic literary landscapes, proffering new methods for understanding the geographies of African literature. Using both cultural geography and political ecology, Crowley offers fresh insights into key authors' imagined geographies of resistance and alterity. 410 0$aGeocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,$x2634-5188 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature 606 $aAfrican literature 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aWorld Literature 606 $aAfrican Literature 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aLiterary History 606 $aLiterary Theory 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature. 615 0$aAfrican literature. 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aWorld Literature. 615 24$aAfrican Literature. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aLiterary History. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 676 $a809/.8996 700 $aCrowley$b D$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01791348 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910957359703321 996 $aAfrica's Narrative Geographies$94328619 997 $aUNINA