The idea of the antipodes
Subtitle: place, people, and voices
By: Matthew Boyd Goldie.
Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures -- 26; Routledge research in postcolonial literatures -- 26.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780415999069; 9780203860397
Subjects: Geography in literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Postcolonialism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: beside the antipodes; title: Spots in time: antipodean place, habitation, and communication in the ancient world; title: Earthly motions: the antipodes in medieval geography and cartography; title: Returning monsters: gender, sex, and child-getting in early modern Britain; title: Britain in the antipodes, Huahine in Britain: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century encounter correspondence; title: Island laughter: twentieth-century antipodean literature; title: Afterword: global antipodes in a virtual world.