Postcolonial Literary Geographies Out of Place
This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as fixed and unchanging and are remapping conceptions of w
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POSTCOLONIAL LITERARY GEOGRAPHIES Out of Place
JOHN THIEME JOHN THIEME
Postcolonial Literary Geographies
John Thieme
Postcolonial Literary Geographies Out of Place
John Thieme University of East Anglia Norwich, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-45686-1 ISBN 978-1-137-45687-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-45687-8
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
From one point of view the gestation of this book has taken place over a long time, but it was not conceived of as a monograph until I gave a paper entitled ‘Postcolonial Mappae Mundi’, which is reworked here as the first half of Chapter 2, at a 2010 conference in Rome. There a chance remark from a perceptive stranger, Flaminia Nicora of the University of Bergamo, made me realize that I had been worrying away at issues related to postcolonial geography for a long time. This prompted me to revisit some of my earlier essays, to write several new chapters and to tighten the theoretical framework that was implicit throughout. The unplanned, albeit serendipitous, nature of the book’s genesis and progress, makes it more than usually difficult to acknowledge all the people whose insights have influenced me. The ideas of several cohorts of my MA students at the University of East Anglia have certainly fed into the book, and conversations with my PhD supervisees Maria Sabina Alexandru and Madhub
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