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Maps of empire : a topography of world literature /

"During the political and historical upheavals of the mid-20th century, writers from colonized and occupied spaces questioned the necessity and ethics of their histories. Uncertainties about how to represent shifting spaces were reflected in the work of scholars and audiences reading works writ...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wanberg, Kyle, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Colección:Cultural spaces.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Cartography and the Space of World Literature
  • 1 A Portmanteau of the Nation in Imīl Habībī's The Pessoptimist
  • 2 The Literary Space of Authority in Camara Laye's Le Regard du roi
  • 3 Imperial Palimpsest or Exquisite Corpse: Yambo Ouologuem's Le Devoir de violence
  • 4 Disorientation and Horror in Sadeq Hedayat's The Blind Owl
  • 5 Orality and the Space of Translation in the Pima Ant Songs
  • Afterword: Decolonizing Literary Space
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index