Postcolonial spaces: the politics of place in contemporary culture

Postcolonial spaces: the politics of place in contemporary culture

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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 inthe study of the politics of contemporary postcolonial experience, engaging with the spectrum of postcolonial spatialities which play a significant role indefining global postcolonial culture. ANDREW TEVERSON is Director of Studies for English Literature and CreativeWriting at Kingston University, London, UK. He is the author of 'Salman Rushdie' (Contemporary World Writers). . . SARA UPSTONE is Principal Lecturer in English Literature, Kingston University, London, UK. INDICE: Table of Figures and Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Foreword; 'E.Soja' - Introduction; 'A.Teverson' &' S.Upstone' - English Somewheres: Caryl Phillips and the English North; 'J.McLeod' - A Few Words About the Role of the Cartographers: Mapping and Postcolonial Resistance in Peter Carey's 'Do You Love Me?'; 'N.Dunlop' - 'How does your garden grow?' or Jamaica Kincaid's Spatial Praxis in 'My Garden' (book): and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya; 'W.Knepper' - Gender and Space in Postcolonial Fiction: South Asian Novelists Re-imagining Women's Spatial Boundaries; 'E.Jackson' -From Hijab to Sweatshops: Segregated Bodies and Contested Space in Monica Ali's Brick Lane; 'M.Germanà' - Overlapping Space and the Negotiation of CulturalIdentity: Children's Literature from the South Asian Diaspora; 'S.Emmambokus ' - Owning the City: Screening Postcolonial Bombay in Milan Luthria's 'Taxi 9 2 11': Nau Do Gyarah; 'C.Herbert' - Postcolonial Purgatory: The Space of Migrancy in Dirty Pretty Things; 'J.Graham ' - Third Space, Abstract Space and Coloniality: National and Subaltern Cartography in Ecuador; 'S.A.Radcliffe' - Security, Territory, and Colonial Populations: Town and Empire in Foucault's 1978 Lecture Course; 'S.Legg' - The Geography of Theory: Knowledge, Politics and the Postcolonial Present; 'T.Jazeel' - Notes - Bibliography - Index

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-25225-7
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 232
  • Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés