Spatial Politics in the Postcolonial Novel

Sara Upstone (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26583-7 (ISBN)

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In her innovative study of spatial locations in postcolonial texts, Sara Upstone adopts a transnational and comparative approach that challenges the tendency to engage with authors in isolation or in relation to other writers from a single geographical setting. Suggesting that isolating authors in terms of geography reinforces the primacy of the nation, Upstone instead illuminates the power of spatial locales such as the journey, city, home, and body to enable personal or communal statements of resistance against colonial prejudice and its neo-colonial legacies. While focusing on the major texts of Wilson Harris, Toni Morrison, and Salman Rushdie in relation to particular spatial locations, Upstone offers a wide range of examples from other postcolonial authors, including Michael Ondaatje, Keri Hulme, J. M. Coetzee, Arundhati Roy, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Abdulrazak Gurnah. The result is a strong case for what Upstone terms the 'postcolonial spatial imagination', independent of geography though always fully contextualised. Written in accessible and unhurried prose, Upstone's study is marked by its respect for the ways in which the writers themselves resist not only geographical boundaries but academic categorisation.

Sara Upstone is a Lecturer in English Literature in the School of Humanities at Kingston University, UK.

Acknowledgments; The Politics of Post-Space; Chapter 1 Shifting the Scales: Postcolonial Nation; Chapter 2 The Fulcrum of Instability: Postcolonial Journeys; Chapter 3 The Ambiguous Utopia: Postcolonial Cities; Chapter 4 Reversals of Representation: Postcolonial Homes; Chapter 5 Last Scale: Postcolonial Bodies; Afterword;

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-26583-7 / 1138265837
ISBN-13	978-1-138-26583-7 / 9781138265837
Zustand	Neuware