Spatial Politics in the Postcolonial Novel

ISBN-13: 9781138265837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str.

Sara Upstone

Opis

In her innovative study of spatial locations in postcolonial texts, Sara Upstone adopts a transnational approach, focusing on the major texts of Wilson Harris, Toni Morrison, and Salmon Rushdie with reference to other postcolonial authors. Challenging the privileging of the nation, Upstone shows that spatial locales such as the journey, city, home, and body enable personal or communal statements of resistance against colonial prejudice and its neo-colonial legacies.

Recenzje

’Complements a recent surge of interest both in the methodological implications of reading modern fiction and poetry within and beyond the nation, [and] ... makes a timely intervention in ongoing conversations about the role of theory in postcolonial studies.’ Review of English Studies

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

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