Literature's sensuous geographies : postcolonial matters of place /
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...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Series: | Geocriticsm and spatial literary studies.
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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.