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  title info:
    title: Literature's sensuous geographies
    sub title: postcolonial matters of place
  name:
    name part: Moslund, Sten Pultz.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 273 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Literature's Sensuous Geographies offers a study of place in postcolonial literature and theory from other than the socio-cultural and political angles that have traditionally dominated the field. Moslund explores "sensuous geographies" (something that has so far been neglected in the study of place in literature) as opening up other than discursive relations to the world, other, non-territorial modes of being-in-the-world. The book develops a sense-aesthetic mode of reading (a "topo-poetics") and in close-readings of Conrad, Blixen, Coetzee and Achebe (among others), Moslund explores dimensions in literature that open up the place world as produced by desubjectified intensities of smell, sound, sight, touch, etc. Sense-aesthetic qualities of literary language are shown in this way as radically challenging the rationalizing logic of modernity (the inner logic of imperialism), at the heart of which Moslund identifies a disciplining of the senses and a reduction of the sensuous openness of reality. With his study of sensuous geographies in literature, Moslund makes a notable shift in the field of postcolonial studies and geocriticism from discourse analysis to aesthetic analysis.
  table of contents: Introduction 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-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.
  note: Sten Pultz Moslund.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Geography and literature
  subject:
    topic: Postcolonialism in literature
  subject:
    topic: Geocriticism
  subject:
    topic: Place (Philosophy) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Senses and sensation in literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
  classification: PN56.G48 M67 2015
  classification: 809/.9332
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Geocriticsm and spatial literary studies
  identifier: 9781137479679 (hardback)
  identifier: 1137479671 (hardback)
  identifier: 2014036017
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141008
    record change date: 20150427151410.0
    record identifier: in00003526210