Postcolonial Spaces The Politics of Place in Contemporary Culture [Hardcover]

With essays from a range of geographies and bringing together influential scholars across a range of disciplines, this book focuses on the role of space in the study of the politics of contemporary postcolonial experience, engaging with the spectrum of postcolonial spatialities which play a significant role in defining global postcolonial culture.Table of Figures and Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword; E.Soja Introduction; A.Teverson ?& S.Upstone English Somewheres: Caryl Phillips and the English North; J.McLeod ? A Few Words About the Role of the Cartographers: Mapping and Postcolonial Resistance in Peter Carey's 'Do You Love Me?'; N.Dunlop ? 'How does your garden grow?' or Jamaica Kincaid's Spatial Praxis in My Garden (book): and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya; W.Knepper ? Gender and Space in Postcolonial Fiction: South Asian Novelists Re-imagining Women's Spatial Boundaries; E.Jackson ? From Hijab to Sweatshops: Segregated Bodies and Contested Space in Monica Ali's Brick Lane; M.German? ? Overlapping Space and the Negotiation of Cultural Identity: Children's Literature from the South Asian Diaspora; S.Emmambokus? Owning the City: Screening Postcolonial Bombay in Milan Luthria's Taxi 9 2 11 : Nau Do Gyarah; C.Herbert ? Postcolonial Purgatory: The Space of Migrancy in Dirty Pretty Things; J.Graham Third Space, Abstract Space and Coloniality: National and Subaltern Cartography in Ecuador; S.A.Radcliffe Security, Territory, and Colonial Populations: Town and Empire in Foucault's 1978 Lecture Course; S.Legg ? The Geography of Theory: Knowledge, Politics and the Postcolonial Present; T.Jazeel Notes Bibliography Index

'This is an important and timely publication which makes a persuasive case for a more sustained engagement with the politics of space in postcolonial studies. Its interdisciplinary range of reference makes for a rich and multifaceted approach to its subject.' - Michelle Keown, Senior Lecturer in English Literatlã.