Teverson / Upstone Postcolonial Spaces

The Politics of Place in Contemporary Culture
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-34251-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

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 in the study of the politics of contemporary postcolonial experience, engaging with the spectrum of postcolonial spatialities which play a significant role in defining global postcolonial culture.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Teverson, A.

Upstone, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Cultural Identity: 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

Über Autor(innen)

NICHOLAS DUNLOP Lecturer in English Literature and Film, University of Birmingham, UK
SHEHRAZADE EMMABOKUS Doctoral Candidate, Kingston University, UK

MONICA GERMANA Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing, University of Westminster, UK
JAMES GRAHAM Lecturer in Communication and Culture, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Middlesex University, UK

CAROLINE HERBERT Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
ELIZABETH JACKSON Lecturer in Literatures in English, University of the West Indies, Trinidad
TARIQ JAZEEL Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Sheffield, UK
WENDY KNEPPER Lecturer in English, Brunel University, UK

STEPHEN LEGG Assistant Professor in the School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK
JOHN MCLEOD Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures at the School of English, University of Leeds, UK
SARAH A. RADCLIFFE Reader in Latin American Geography, University of Cambridge, UK