Literature's sensuous geographies : postcolonial matters of place /: postcolonial matters of place. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sten Pultz Moslund.
• Authors: Moslund, Sten Pultz
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction PART I1. The Tenor of Place, Language and Body in Postcolonial Studies 2. Sensuous Empires and Silent Calls of the Earth 3. Postcolonial Aesthetics and the Politics of the Sensible 4. How to Read Place in Literature with the Body: Language as Poiesis-AisthesisPART II5. Mind, Eye, Body and Place in J. M. Coetzee's Dusklands (1974)6. Silent Geographies in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902)7. Nation and Embodied Experiences of the Place World in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958)8. Karen Blixen's Out of Africa (1937): A Colonial Aesthetic and Decolonial Aisthesis9. The Settler's Language and Emplacement in Patrick White's Voss (1957)10. Place, Language, Body in the Caribbean Experience and the Example of Harold Sonny Ladoo's No Pain Like This Body (1972)11. Place and Sensuous Geographies in Migration Literature12. Spatial Transgressions and Migrant Aesthetics in David Dabydeen's Disappearance (1993)Coda.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 809/.9332; Semiotics & Theory; Geography and literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Geocriticism; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Senses and sensation in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; European/English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literature: history & criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137453198; 1137453192
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