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Literature's Sensuous Geographies : Postcolonial Matters of Place / by S. Moslund.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moslund, S., Author.
- Series:
- Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies, 2634-5188
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature.
- Fiction.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- European literature.
- World Literature.
- Fiction Literature.
- Literary History.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- European Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- World Literature.
- Fiction Literature.
- Literary History.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- European Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XI, 273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc. that often challenge the rationalizing logic of modernity. Through close readings of writers such as Conrad and Coetzee, Moslund invites scholars to shift focus from discourse analysis to aesthetic analysis.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781137453228
- 1137453222
- OCLC:
- 905097123
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