Literary Landscapes: From Modernism to Postcolonialism

by Kenneth A. Loparo (Editor), G. Fincham (Editor), J. Hawthorn (Editor), J. Lothe (Editor)

Overview

This book explores the varied ways in which modernist and postcolonial innovations in fiction are motivated by crises and revolutions in the human perception and appropriation of space. 'Space' for the writers concerned has its political, historical, cultural and gender dimensions as well as its geographical identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230553163
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/10/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	221
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

CARROL CLARKSON, teacher, University of Cape Town, South Africa. HARRY GARUBA is Associate Professor at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa, with a joint appointment in the English Department. JOHAN GEERTSEMA is Assistant Professor in the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore. INA GRÄBE is Emeritus Professor of Theory of Literature, University of South Africa (UNISA). MERRY M. PAWLOWSKI, teacher, California State University, Bakersfield, USA. FREDERIK TYGSTRUP is the Director of the Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. MARITA WENZEL is Associate Professor of English, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. MERLE A. WILLIAMS is Personal Professor of English and Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Space, Time, Narrative: From Thomas Hardy to Franz Kafka and J.M. Coetzee; J.Lothe The American Spaces of Henry James; M.A.Williams Space and Place in the Novels of E.M. Forster; G.Fincham Travel as Incarceration: Jean Rhys's After Leaving Mr MacKenzie ; J.Hawthorn 'Where Am I?': Feminine Space and Time in Virginia Woolf's The Years ; M.Pawlowski Imagining the Karoo Landscape: Free Indirect Discourse, the Sublime, and the Consecration of White Poverty; J.Geertsema 'Reading' and 'Constructing' Space, Gender and Race: Conrad's Lord Jim and J.M. Coetzee's Foe ; A.M.De Lange Remains of the Name; C.Clarkson Houses, Cellars and Caves in Selected Novels from Latin America and South Africa; M.Wenzel Transformation of Ordinary Places into Imaginative Space in Zakes Mda's Writing; I.Grabe No Man's Land: Nuruddin Farah's Links and the Space of Postcolonial Alienation; H.Garuba Changing Spaces: Salman Rushdie's Mapping of Post-Colonial Territories; F.Tygstrup Index

Editorial Reviews

'This is a very well considered essay collection that includes some experienced and highly able scholars. The essays in the volume are original, cross-cultural in content, and make a valuable contribution to the burgeoning field of geographies in literature.' Linda Dryden, Reader in Literature and Culture, Napier University, UK

'This in-depth and carefully argued collection of essays...has a strong cross-cultural premise that emphasizes the significant ways in which the experience and depiction of space and place in modernist and postcolonial literary texts overlap.'

- Susan Smit-Marais, PYP Online

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