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

• Pubblicazione: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2011.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Disciplina: 828/.9140803582
• Soggetto topico: Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism; Space in literature; Geography in literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Postcolonialism - Commonwealth countries; Postcolonialism in literature
• Classificazione: LIT012000LIT007000LIT000000
• Altri autori: TeversonAndrew UpstoneSara
• 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 spaces
• ISBN: 1-283-31822-9; 9786613318220; 0-230-34251-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829095703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II