TY - BOOK AU - Wanberg,Kyle TI - Maps of Empire: A Topography of World Literature T2 - Cultural Spaces SN - 9781487506841 AV - PN770.5 .W36 2020 U1 - 809/.04 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Cartography in literature KW - Colonization in literature KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Literature, Modern KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century KW - bisacsh KW - authority KW - cartography KW - colonialism KW - comparative literature KW - decolonization KW - empire KW - global literature KW - imperialism KW - literary space KW - maps KW - orality KW - pastiche KW - postcolonialism KW - topography KW - world literature N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487534943 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487534943 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487534943/original ER -