Postcolonial literary geographies : out of place / John Thieme.
2016
PN98.P67
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Title
Postcolonial literary geographies : out of place / John Thieme.
Author
Thieme, John, author.
ISBN
9781137456878 (electronic book)
1137456876 (electronic book)
9781137456861
1137456868
1137456876 (electronic book)
9781137456861
1137456868
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[London] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
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PN98.P67
Dewey Decimal Classification
809
Summary
This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as fixed and unchanging and are remapping conceptions of world geography, with chapters on cartography, botany and gardens, spice, ecologies, animals and zoos, and cities, as well as reference to the importance of archaeology and travel in such debates. Writers whose work receives detailed attention include Amitav Ghosh, Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje and Robert Kroetsch. Challenging both older colonial and more recent global constructions of place, the book argues for an environmental politics that is attentive to the concerns of disadvantaged peoples, animal rights and ecological issues. Its range and insights make it essential reading for anyone interested in the changing physical and human geography of the contemporary world.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Exploring Space, Excavating Place
2. Postcolonial Mappae Mundi
3. After the Bounty: Botany and Botanical Tropes
4. 'Lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon': Romantic Spice, Postcolonial Spice
5. Inheriting the Earth: Postcolonial Ecologies
6. Paper Tigers and Other Therianthropes
7. Urban Chronotopes: London and Bombay
8.Travelling Places: A Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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1. Introduction: Exploring Space, Excavating Place
2. Postcolonial Mappae Mundi
3. After the Bounty: Botany and Botanical Tropes
4. 'Lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon': Romantic Spice, Postcolonial Spice
5. Inheriting the Earth: Postcolonial Ecologies
6. Paper Tigers and Other Therianthropes
7. Urban Chronotopes: London and Bombay
8.Travelling Places: A Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index
.