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: PART I -- 1. 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-Aisthesis -- PART II -- 5. 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 Aisthesis -- 9. 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 Literature -- 12. 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
• Subjects: 809/.9332; Literature; 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; Geocriticism; Geography and literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Senses and sensation in literature; Fiction -- General; Literary Criticism -- General; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Social Science -- General; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Fiction & related items; Literature: history & criticism; Literary theory; Cultural studies; Literature ; Fiction; British literature; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137453228; 1137453222
• Related ISBNs: 9781349502516; 1349502510
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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