224 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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In her innovative study of spatial locations in postcolonial texts, Sara Upstone adopts a transnational and comparative approach that challenges the tendency to engage with authors in isolation or in relation to other writers from a single geographical setting. Suggesting that isolating authors in terms of geography reinforces the primacy of the nation, Upstone instead illuminates the power of... Read more
Acknowledgments; The Politics of Post-Space; Chapter 1 Shifting the Scales: Postcolonial Nation; Chapter 2 The Fulcrum of Instability: Postcolonial Journeys; Chapter 3 The Ambiguous Utopia: Postcolonial Cities; Chapter 4 Reversals of Representation: Postcolonial Homes; Chapter 5 Last Scale: Postcolonial Bodies; Afterword;
Biography
Sara Upstone is a Lecturer in English Literature in the School of Humanities at Kingston University, UK.
’Complements a recent surge of interest both in the methodological implications of reading modern fiction and poetry within and beyond the nation, [and] ... makes a timely intervention in ongoing conversations about the role of theory in postcolonial studies.’ Review of English Studies
