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Postcolonial Literary Geographies

Author : John Thieme
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349687626
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Literary Geographies written by John Thieme and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-05-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as fixed and unchanging and are remapping conceptions of world geography, with chapters on cartography, botany and gardens, spice, ecologies, animals and zoos, and cities, as well as reference to the importance of archaeology and travel in such debates. Writers whose work receives detailed attention include Amitav Ghosh, Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje and Robert Kroetsch. Challenging both older colonial and more recent global constructions of place, the book argues for an environmental politics that is attentive to the concerns of disadvantaged peoples, animal rights and ecological issues. Its range and insights make it essential reading for anyone interested in the changing physical and human geography of the contemporary world.

Postcolonial Literary Geographies

Author : John Thieme
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137456876
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Literary Geographies written by John Thieme and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as fixed and unchanging and are remapping conceptions of world geography, with chapters on cartography, botany and gardens, spice, ecologies, animals and zoos, and cities, as well as reference to the importance of archaeology and travel in such debates. Writers whose work receives detailed attention include Amitav Ghosh, Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje and Robert Kroetsch. Challenging both older colonial and more recent global constructions of place, the book argues for an environmental politics that is attentive to the concerns of disadvantaged peoples, animal rights and ecological issues. Its range and insights make it essential reading for anyone interested in the changing physical and human geography of the contemporary world.

Writing Women and Space

Author : Alison Blunt
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898624984
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Writing Women and Space written by Alison Blunt and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1994-08-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing lessons from the complex and often contradictory position of white women writing in the colonial period, This unique book explores how feminism and poststructuralism can bring new types of understanding to the production of geographical knowledge. Through a series of colonial and postcolonial case studies, essays address the ways in which white women have written and mapped different geographies, in both the late nineteenth century and today, illustrating the diverse objects (landscapes, spaces, views), the variety of media (letters, travel writing, paintings, sculpture, cartographic maps, political discourse), and the different understandings and representations of people and place.

Postcolonialism

Author : Tariq Jazeel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317195337
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonialism written by Tariq Jazeel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonialism is a book that examines the influence of postcolonial theory in critical geographical thought and scholarship. Aimed at advanced-level students and researchers, the book is a lively, stimulating and relevant introduction to ‘postcolonial geography’ that elaborates on the critical interventions in social, cultural and political life this important subfield is poised to make. The book is structured around three intersecting parts – Spaces, 'Identity'/hybridity, Knowledge – that broadly follow the trajectory of postcolonial studies since the late 1970s. It comprises ten main chapters, each of which is situated at the intersections of postcolonialism and critical human geography. In doing so, Postcolonialism develops three key arguments. First, that postcolonialism is best conceived as an intellectually creative and practical set of methodologies or approaches for critically engaging existing manifestations of power and exclusion in everyday life and in taken-as-given spaces. Second, that postcolonialism is, at its core, concerned with the politics of representation, both in terms of how people and space are represented, but also the politics surrounding who is able to represent themselves and on what/whose terms. Third, the book argues that postcolonialism itself is an inherently geographical intellectual enterprise, despite its origins in literary theory. In developing these arguments and addressing a series of relevant and international case studies and examples throughout, Postcolonialism not only demonstrates the importance of postcolonial theory to the contemporary critical geographical imagination. It also argues that geographers have much to offer to continued theorizations and workings of postcolonial theory, politics and intellectual debates going forward. This is a book that brings critical analyses of the continued and omnipresent legacies of colonialism and imperialism to the heart of human geography, but also one that returns an avowedly critical geographical disposition to the core of interdisciplinary postcolonial studies.

Postcolonial Past & Present

Author : Anne Collett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004376542
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Past & Present written by Anne Collett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Postcolonial Past & Present twelve outstanding scholars look to those spaces Epeli Hau’ofa has insisted are full not empty to analyse the ways artists and intellectuals in the postcolonial world make sense of turbulent local and global forces.

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies

Author : Neil Lazarus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521534185
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies written by Neil Lazarus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a lucid introduction to postcolonial studies, one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.

Literature’s Sensuous Geographies

Author : S. Moslund
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137453222
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Literature’s Sensuous Geographies written by S. Moslund and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc. that often challenge the rationalizing logic of modernity. Through close readings of writers such as Conrad and Coetzee, Moslund invites scholars to shift focus from discourse analysis to aesthetic analysis.

Postcolonial Con-Texts

Author : John Thieme
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847143113
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Con-Texts written by John Thieme and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years works such as Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, which 'write back' to classic English texts, have attracted considerable attention as offering a paradigm for the relationship between post-colonial writing and the 'canon'. Thieme's study provides a broad overview of such writing, focusing both on responses to texts that have frequently been associated with the colonial project or the construction of 'race' (The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe, Heart of Darkness and Othello) and texts where the interaction between culture and imperialism is slightly less overt (Great Expectations, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights). The post-colonial con-texts examined are located within their particular social and cultural backgrounds with emphasis on the different forms their responses to their pre-texts take and the extent to which they create their own discursive space. Using Edward Said's models of filiative relationships and affiliative identifications, the book argues that 'writing back' is seldom adversarial, rather that it operates along a continuum between complicity and oppositionality that dismantles hierarchical positioning. It also suggests that post-colonial appropriations of canonical pre-texts frequently generate re-readings of their 'originals'. It concludes by considering the implications of this argument for discussions of identity politics and literary genealogies more generally. Authors examined include Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Kamau Brathwaite, Peter Carey, J.M. Coetzee, Robertson Davies, Wilson Harris, Elizabeth Jolley, Robert Kroetsch, George Lamming, Margaret Laurence, Pauline Melville, V.S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Jean Rhys, Salman Rushdie, Djanet Sears, Sam Selvon, Olive Senior, Jane Urquhart and Derek Walcott.

Postcolonial Geographies

Author : Alison Blunt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847141765
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Geographies written by Alison Blunt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonialism and geography are intimately linked through the spatiality of colonial discourse as well as the material effects of colonialism and decolonization.Geographical ideas about space, place, landscape, and location have helped to articulate different experiences of colonialism both in the past and present and the "here" and "there". At the same time, while spatial images such as mobility, margins and exile abound in postcolonial writings, more material geographies have often been overlooked.Postcolonial Geographies presents the first sustained geographical analysis of postcolonialism. Exploring and developing the connections between postcolonialism and geography, the essays in this book--ranging across Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, and North America--investigate the geographies of postcolonialism and chart the contours of a postcolonial geography. Contributors:Morag Bell, Claire Dwyer, Haydie Gooder, Jane M. Jacobs, M. Satish Kumar, Alan Lester, Mark McGuinness, Karen M. Morin, Richard Phillips, Marcus Power, Jenny Robinson, James D. Sidaway, John Wylie

Prospero's Daughter

Author : Elizabeth Nunez
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617755427
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Prospero's Daughter written by Elizabeth Nunez and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on a Caribbean island in the grip of colonialism, this novel is “masterful . . . simply wonderful . . . [an] exquisite retelling of The Tempest” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). When Peter Gardner’s ruthless medical genius leads him to experiment on his unwitting patients—often at the expense of their lives—he flees England, seeking an environ where his experiments might continue without scrutiny. He arrives with his three-year-old-daughter, Virginia, in Chacachacare, an isolated island off the coast of Trinidad, in the early 1960s. Gardner considers the locals to be nothing more than savages. He assumes ownership of the home of a servant boy named Carlos, seeing in him a suitable subject for his amoral medical work. Nonetheless, he educates the boy alongside Virginia. As Virginia and Carlos come of age together, they form a covert relationship that violates the outdated mores of colonial rule. When Gardner unveils the pair’s relationship and accuses Carlos of a monstrous act, the investigation into the truth is left up to a curt, stonehearted British inspector, whose inquiries bring to light a horrendous secret. At turns epic and intimate, Prospero's Daughter, from American Book Award winner Elizabeth Nunez, uses Shakespeare’s play as a template to address questions of race, class, and power, in the story of an unlikely bond between a boy and a girl of disparate backgrounds on a verdant Caribbean island during the height of tensions between the native population and British colonists. “Gripping and richly imagined . . . a master at pacing and plotting . . . an entirely new story that is inspired by Shakespeare, but not beholden to him.” —The New York Times Book Review “Absorbing . . . [Nunez] writes novels that resound with thunder and fury.” —Essence “A story about the transformative power of love . . . Readers are sure to enjoy the journey.” —Black Issues Book Review (Novel of the Year)

Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies

Author : Elizabeth A Bohls
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748678751
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies written by Elizabeth A Bohls and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between Romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British Empire.

Colonial and Post-Colonial Geographies of India

Author : Saraswati Raju
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761934363
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Colonial and Post-Colonial Geographies of India written by Saraswati Raju and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-03-29 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays by scholars of geography from India, Western Europe, and the USA provides important insights into the way contemporary geographers are engaging with India. The earlier narrow colonial focus that saw India as a country of resources and "peoples" (tribes and castes) has now been discarded for a broader view located in mainstream intellectual frameworks and informed by a public policy perspective. This volume highlights how contemporary geographers see and write on topics such as the state, nation, community, environment, and division of labor, while keeping in mind issues of spatiality and territoriality.

Interdisciplinary Measures

Author : Graham Huggan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781386773
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Interdisciplinary Measures written by Graham Huggan and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary Measures makes the case for a cross-disciplinary, but literature-centred, approach to postcolonial studies. Despite the anxieties that interdisciplinarity brings with it, a combination of different, discontinuously structured disciplinary knowledges is arguably best suited to address the tangled concerns of both the globalised present and the colonial past. The book looks specifically at the intersections between literary criticism, history, anthropology, geography and environmental studies, while arguing more specifically for a postcolonialism across the disciplines in the service of informed (cross-) cultural critique. Bringing together a wide range of literary material from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, New Zealand and South Asia, the book also considers the different, but sometimes related, cultural contexts within which the key debates in postcolonial studies – e.g. those around globalisation, North-South relations and the new imperialism – are currently taking place. These debates suggest the need for a multi-sited, multilinguistic and, not least, multidisciplinary appraoch to postcolonial studies that consolidates its status as a comparative field.

Post-Colonial Studies

Author : John Thieme
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780340761748
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Post-Colonial Studies written by John Thieme and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2003-09-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This glossary offers an interdisciplinary guide to the various concepts, practices, and cultural products that have come to be known as "post-colonial." In addition to providing an essential introduction for undergraduates taking post-colonial classes, its range makes it an indispensable reference tool for those who have been working in the field for some time. It contains some 400 entries on the major figures, trends and movements, taking literature and literary theory -disciplines which played a pivotal role in the development of the field -as its central focus.

Postcolonial Geographies

Author : Alison Blunt
Publisher : Athlone Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Geographies written by Alison Blunt and published by Athlone Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The intersection of postcolonial critical theory and the practice of geography necessitates the consideration of the rhetorics of place and identity, the spatial nature of cultural change, and the systems of power promoted by the discipline itself. Blunt (geography, U. of London, UK) and McEwan (human geography, U. of Birmingham, UK) present 12 papers that explore such topics as networks of knowledge in South Africa and elsewhere in the British Empire; citizenship and urban space in India and South Africa; and nationalism and identity. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Literature’s Sensuous Geographies

Author : S. Moslund
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137479679
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Literature’s Sensuous Geographies written by S. Moslund and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc. that often challenge the rationalizing logic of modernity. Through close readings of writers such as Conrad and Coetzee, Moslund invites scholars to shift focus from discourse analysis to aesthetic analysis.

A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature

Author : Shirley Chew
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118836006
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature written by Shirley Chew and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present day, this concise companion is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of postcolonial literature and culture. An indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of Postcolonialism, bringing together 10 original essays from leading international scholars including C. L. Innes and Susan Bassnett Explains the ideas and practises that emerged from the dismantling of European empires Explores the ways in which these ideas and practices influenced the period's keynote concerns, such as race, culture, and identity; literary and cultural translations; and the politics of resistance Chapters cover the fields of identity studies, orality and literacy, nationalisms, feminism, anthropology and cultural criticism, the politics of rewriting, new geographies, publishing and marketing, translation studies. Features a useful Chronology of the period, thorough general bibliography, and guides to further reading