Title:
Postcolonial spaces : the politics of place in contemporary culture
Author:
Teverson, Andrew.
ISBN:
9780230252257
Publication Information:
Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description:
xvii, 208 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
General Note:
Formerly CIP.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.English somewheres: Caryl Phillips and the English North / John McLeod -- 2.A few words about the role of the Cartographers: Mapping and postcolonial resistance in Peter Carey's `Do You Love Me?' / Nicholas Dunlop -- 3.`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 -- 4.Gender and space in postcolonial fiction: South Asian novelists re-imagining women's spatial boundaries / Elizabeth Jackson -- 5.From hijab to sweatshops: Segregated bodies and contested space in Monica Ali's Brick Lane / Monica Germana -- 6.Overlapping space and the negotiation of cultural identity: Children's literature from the South Asian diaspora / Shehrazade Emmambokus -- 7.Owning the city: Screening postcolonial Bombay in Milan Luthria's Taxi 9 2 11: Nau Do Gyarah / Caroline Herbert -- 8.Postcolonial purgatory: The space of migrancy in Dirty Pretty Things / James Graham --
Contents note continued: 9.Third space, abstract space and coloniality: National and subaltern cartography in Ecuador / Sarah A. Radcliffe -- 10.Security, territory, and colonial populations: Town and empire in Foucault's 1978 lecture course / Stephen Legg -- 11.The geography of theory: Knowledge, politics and the postcolonial present / Tariq Jazeel.
Abstract:
"Postcolonial Spaces is the first collection of interdisciplinary essays to focus on the crucial role of space in the study of the politics of contemporary postcolonial experience. It brings together influential scholars from the fields of media, film, literature, and geography, embodying the centrality of interdisciplinary thinking to recent postcolonial scholarship. The book includes essays from a wide range of geographies, encompassing Europe, South America, South Asian, Australasia, and the Caribbean. As well as a comprehensive introduction, essays engage with a broad spectrum of postcolonial spatialities, including: Caryl Phillips's Northern landscapes; the role of clothing in Islam and the fiction of Monica Ali; the domestic spaces of South Asian women writers; Peter Carey's representation of territory; South Asian children's literature; map-making in Equador, Michel Foucault's territorial thinking; Jamaica Kincaid's use of the garden-space; migrant spaces in Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things; Bombay in contemporary Indian film; and the spatial politics of theory in the western academy. "--Publisher.