Postcolonial literary geographies : out of place /

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thieme, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [London] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Subjects:
1900-2099
Postmodernism (Literature)
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Literature, Modern > 21st century.
Oriental literature.
British literature.
Literature, Modern.
Postmodernisme (Littérature)
Littérature > 20e siècle.
Littérature > 21e siècle.
Littérature orientale.
Littérature britannique.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literature: history & criticism.
Fiction & related items.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
British literature
Literature, Modern
Oriental literature
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction: Exploring Space, Excavating Place
  • 2. Postcolonial Mappae Mundi
  • 3. After the Bounty: Botany and Botanical Tropes
  • 4. 'Lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon': Romantic Spice, Postcolonial Spice
  • 5. Inheriting the Earth: Postcolonial Ecologies
  • 6. Paper Tigers and Other Therianthropes
  • 7. Urban Chronotopes: London and Bombay
  • 8. Travelling Places: A Coda
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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