ISBN:
1137456868
,
9781137456861
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 237 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Thieme, John Postcolonial literary geographies
DDC:
823/.9209358
Keywords:
Commonwealth literature (English) History and criticism
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Geocriticism
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Space and time in literature
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Literature, Modern 20th century
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Literature, Modern 21st century
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Englisch
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Postkoloniale Literatur
;
Raum
;
Ort
;
Englisch
;
Postkoloniale Literatur
;
Raum
;
Ort
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Introduction : Exploring space, excavating place -- Postcolonial Mappae Mundi -- After the Bounty : botany and botanical tropes -- 'Lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon' : romantic spice, postcolonial spice -- Borrowing the Earth : postcolonial ecologies -- Paper tigers and other therianthropes -- Urban chronotopes : London and Bombay -- Travelling places : a coda
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