Maps of Empire : A Topography of World Literature /
Wanberg, Kyle
Maps of Empire : A Topography of World Literature / Kyle Wanberg. - 1 online resource (216 p.) : 2 b&w illustrations - Cultural Spaces .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cartography and the Space of World Literature -- 1. A Portmanteau of the Nation in Imīl Habībī’s The Pessoptimist -- 2. The Literary Space of Authority in Camara Laye’s Le Regard du roi -- 3. Imperial Palimpsest or Exquisite Corpse: Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de violence -- 4. Disorientation and Horror in Sadeq Hedayat’s The Blind Owl -- 5. Orality and the Space of Translation in the Pima Ant Songs -- Afterword: Decolonizing Literary Space -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Cultural Spaces
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
During the political upheavals of the mid-twentieth century, as imperialism was unraveling on a grand scale, writers from colonized and occupied spaces questioned the necessity and ethics of their histories. As empire "wrote back" to the self-ordained centres of the world, modes of representation underwent a transformation. Exploring novels and diverse forms of literature from regions in West Africa, the Middle East, and Indigenous America, Maps of Empire considers how writers struggle with the unstable boundaries generated by colonial projects and their dissolution. The literary spaces covered in the book form imaginary states or reimagine actual cartographies and identities sanctioned under empire. The works examined in Maps of Empire, through their inner representations and their outer histories of reception, inspire and provoke us to reconsider boundaries.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487506841 9781487534943
10.3138/9781487534943 doi
Cartography in literature.
Colonization in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century .
authority. cartography. colonialism. comparative literature. decolonization. empire. global literature. imperialism. literary space. maps. orality. pastiche. postcolonialism. topography. world literature.
PN770.5 / .W36 2020
809/.04
Maps of Empire : A Topography of World Literature / Kyle Wanberg. - 1 online resource (216 p.) : 2 b&w illustrations - Cultural Spaces .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cartography and the Space of World Literature -- 1. A Portmanteau of the Nation in Imīl Habībī’s The Pessoptimist -- 2. The Literary Space of Authority in Camara Laye’s Le Regard du roi -- 3. Imperial Palimpsest or Exquisite Corpse: Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de violence -- 4. Disorientation and Horror in Sadeq Hedayat’s The Blind Owl -- 5. Orality and the Space of Translation in the Pima Ant Songs -- Afterword: Decolonizing Literary Space -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Cultural Spaces
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
During the political upheavals of the mid-twentieth century, as imperialism was unraveling on a grand scale, writers from colonized and occupied spaces questioned the necessity and ethics of their histories. As empire "wrote back" to the self-ordained centres of the world, modes of representation underwent a transformation. Exploring novels and diverse forms of literature from regions in West Africa, the Middle East, and Indigenous America, Maps of Empire considers how writers struggle with the unstable boundaries generated by colonial projects and their dissolution. The literary spaces covered in the book form imaginary states or reimagine actual cartographies and identities sanctioned under empire. The works examined in Maps of Empire, through their inner representations and their outer histories of reception, inspire and provoke us to reconsider boundaries.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487506841 9781487534943
10.3138/9781487534943 doi
Cartography in literature.
Colonization in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century .
authority. cartography. colonialism. comparative literature. decolonization. empire. global literature. imperialism. literary space. maps. orality. pastiche. postcolonialism. topography. world literature.
PN770.5 / .W36 2020
809/.04