Title: Literary landscapes : from modernism to postcolonialism /
Authors: De Lange, Attie.; Fincham, Gail.; Hawthorn, Jeremy; Lothe, Jakob.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Place (Philosophy) in literature.; English fiction History and criticism; South African fiction (English) History and criticism.; Commonwealth fiction (English) History and criticism; Space in literature.; Space and time in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Postcolonialism in literature.; Modernism (Literature) English-speaking countries; Postmodernism (Literature) English-speaking countries
Abstract: "Literary Landscapes challenges the popular view that fictional representations of place and space by modernist authors have little or nothing in common with those of postcolonial writers."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction -- Space, time, narrative: from Thomas Hardy to Franz Kafka and J. M. Coetzee / Jakob Lothe -- The American spaces of Henry James / Merle A. Williams -- Space and place in the novels of E.M. Forster / Gail Fincham -- Travel as incarceration: Jean Rhys's After leaving Mr. MacKenzie / Jeremy Hawthorn -- "Where am I"?: feminine space and time in Virginia Woolf's The years / Merry M. Pawlowski -- Imagining the karoo landscape: free indirect discourse, the sublime, and the consecration of white poverty / Johan Geertsema -- Reading and constructing space, gender and race: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and J. M. Coetzee's Foe / A. M. de Lange -- Remains of the name / Carrol Clarkson -- Houses, cellars and caves in selected novels from Latin America and South Africa / Marita Wenzel -- Transformation of ordinary places into imaginative space in Zakes Mda's writing / Ina Gräbe -- No-man's land: Nuruddin Farah's links and the space of postcolonial alienation / Harry Garuba -- Changing spaces: Salman Rushdie's mapping of post-colonial territories / Frederik Tygstrup.