Postcolonial spaces
Subtitle: the politics of place in contemporary culture
By: edited by Andrew Teverson, Sara Upstone
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780230252257
Subjects: Place (Philosophy) in literature; Commonwealth literature (English); LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Geography in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; History and criticism; Space in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference; Postcolonialism in literature; Postcolonialism
Description: Foreword / Edward Soja -- Introduction / Andrew Teverson and Sara Upstone -- English Somewheres: Caryl Phillips and the English North / John McLeod -- A Few Words About the Role of the Cartographers: Mapping and Postcolonial Resistance in Peter Carey's 'Do You Love Me?' / Nicholas Dunlop -- 'How does your garden grow?' or Jamaica Kincaid's Spatial Praxis in My Garden (book): and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya / Wendy Knepper -- Gender and Space in Postcolonial Fiction: South Asian Novelists Re-imagining Women's Spatial Boundaries / Elizabeth Jackson -- From Hijab to Sweatshops: Segregated Bodies and Contested Space in Monica Ali's Brick Lane / Monica Germana -- Overlapping Space and the Negotiation of Cultural Identity: Children's Literature from the South Asian Diaspora / Shehrazade Emmambokus -- Owning the City: Screening Postcolonial Bombay in Milan Luthria's Taxi 9 2 11: Nau Do Gyarah / Caroline Herbert -- Postcolonial Purgatory: The Space of Migrancy in Dirty Pretty Things / James Graham -- Third Space, Abstract Space and Coloniality: National and Subaltern Cartography in Ecuador / Sarah A. Radcliffe -- Security, Territory, and Colonial Populations: Town and Empire in Foucault's 1978 Lecture Course / Stephen Legg -- The Geography of Theory: Knowledge, Politics and the Postcolonial Present / Tariq Jazeel.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.