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Postcolonial spacesPostcolonial spaces

Postcolonial spaces

Sara Upstone, Andrew Teverson

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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.

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OL16442056W

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Place (Philosophy) in literatureCommonwealth literature (English)LITERARY CRITICISM / GeneralGeography in literatureLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & ReadingHistory and criticismSpace in literatureLITERARY CRITICISM / ReferencePostcolonialism in literaturePostcolonialismCommonwealth literature (english), history and criticismLITERARY CRITICISMEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary studies: post-colonial literatureLiterature

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