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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| Sprache: | eng |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2016
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 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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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 237 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 1137456868 1-137-45686-8 9781137456861 978-1-137-45686-1 |