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Maps of Empire : A Topography of World Literature / Kyle Wanberg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural SpacesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]Copyright date: 2020Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) : 2 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781487506841
  • 9781487534943
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.04 23
LOC classification:
  • PN770.5 .W36 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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