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Titolo: | 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 |
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