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Africa's Narrative Geographies : Charting the Intersections of Geocriticism and Postcolonial Studies / / by D. Crowley



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Autore: Crowley D Visualizza persona
Titolo: Africa's Narrative Geographies : Charting the Intersections of Geocriticism and Postcolonial Studies / / by D. Crowley Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015
Edizione: 1st ed. 2015.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (X, 192 p.)
Disciplina: 809/.8996
Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern—20th century
Literature   
African literature
Fiction
Literature—History and criticism
Literature—Philosophy
Twentieth-Century Literature
Postcolonial/World Literature
African Literature
Literary History
Literary Theory
Soggetto geografico: Africa In literature
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Africa's Narrative Geographies  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-137-51899-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811628003321
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Serie: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies