Radoviac Stanka Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction 9780813936291

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Автор: Radoviac Stanka
Название: Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction
ISBN: 9780813936291
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

ISBN-10: 0813936292
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 240
Вес: 0.33 кг.
Дата издания: 29.07.2014
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 152 x 17
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: general
Подзаголовок: Space and identity in caribbean fiction
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: While postcolonial discourse in the Caribbean has drawn attention to colonialism’s impact on space and spatial hierarchy, Stanka Radović asks both how ordinary people as “users” of space have been excluded from active and autonomous participation in shaping their daily spatial reality and how they challenge this exclusion. In a comparative interdisciplinary reading of anglophone and francophone Caribbean literature and contemporary spatial theory, she focuses on the house as a literary figure and the ways that fiction and acts of storytelling resist the oppressive hierarchies of colonial and neocolonial domination. The author engages with the theories of Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, and contemporary critical geographers, in addition to selected fiction by V. S. Naipaul, Patrick Chamoiseau, Beryl Gilroy, and Rafaël Confiant, to examine the novelists’ construction of narrative “houses” to reclaim not only actual or imaginary places but also the very conditions of self-representation.Radović ultimately argues for the power of literary imagination to contest the limitations of geopolitical boundaries by emphasizing space and place as fundamental to our understanding of social and political identity. The physical places described in these texts crystallize the protagonists’ ambiguous and complex relationship to the New World. Space is, then, as the author shows, both a political fact and a powerful metaphor whose imaginary potential continually challenges its material limitations.

Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction, Radoviac Stanka