Spaces of fiction, fictions of space
Subtitle: postcolonial place and literary DeiXis
By: Russell West-Pavlov.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230237766
Subjects: Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism; Space in literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Linguistics in literature; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Deixis; English language -- Deixis; Postcolonialism in literature
Description: "Reading a wide range of well known postcolonial writers along with more recent authors, Spaces of Fiction / Fictions of Space implements a new theory of literary spatial marking derived from the linguistic theory of deixis, and made accessible via an analysis of Becketts 'semi-colonial' play Waiting for Godot"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: AcknowledgementsNotes on TranslationsIntroduction: Deixis - Borges/CalvinoPART I: THE SPACES OF FICTIONDeixis and I - Beckett IFrom Deictics to DeiXis - Beckett IINarrative Space - Conrad I/Gide/Kristeva/ShklovskyAnadiplosis - Conrad II/Dabydeen/WolfPART II: THE FICTIONS OF SPACESpatial Amnesia - Ondaatje/DesaiImperial Deixis - Naipaul/Dunbar/Keats/Kipling/Csaire/Rhys/Roy/RushdieSelf-Reflexive Deixis And The Aporias Of The Nation - Mcfarlane/Achebe/NgugiCritiques Of National Narratives - Davison/Fanon/Kourouma/Wicomb/VassanjiDeixis And Loss - Muecke/Fatoba/Naipaul/Warner/Chamoiseau/GlissantDeixis Rediscovered - Malouf/Forster/Ondaatje/Scott/NeidjieConclusion: 'here fix the tablet' - Field/GrenvilleBibliographyIndex.