Postcolonial Spaces [[electronic resource] ] : The Politics of Place in Contemporary Culture / / edited by A. Teverson, S. Upstone

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2011.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.933581
• Soggetto topico: Literature ; Literature, Modern—20th century; Postcolonial/World Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature
• Classificazione: LIT012000LIT007000LIT000000
• Persona (resp. second.): TeversonA; UpstoneS
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Postcolonial space(s
• ISBN: 1-283-31822-9; 9786613318220; 0-230-34251-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781449503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II