Literary landscapes [Elektronisk resurs] From modernism to postcolonialism / Edited by Attie De Lange [et al.].

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Space, Time, Narrative: From Thomas Hardy to Franz Kafka and J.M. Coetzee-- J.Lothe The American Spaces of Henry James-- M.A.Williams Space and Place in the Novels of E.M. Forster-- G.Fincham Travel as Incarceration: Jean Rhys's After Leaving Mr MacKenzie-- J.Hawthorn 'Where Am I?': Feminine Space and Time in Virginia Woolf's The Years-- M.Pawlowski Imagining the Karoo Landscape: Free Indirect Discourse, the Sublime, and the Consecration of White Poverty-- J.Geertsema 'Reading' and 'Constructing' Space, Gender and Race: Conrad's Lord Jim and J.M. Coetzee's Foe-- A.M.De Lange Remains of the Name-- C.Clarkson Houses, Cellars and Caves in Selected Novels from Latin America and South Africa-- M.Wenzel Transformation of Ordinary Places into Imaginative Space in Zakes Mda's Writing-- I.Grabe No Man's Land: Nuruddin Farah's Links and the Space of Postcolonial Alienation-- H.Garuba Changing Spaces: Salman Rushdie's Mapping of Post-Colonial Territories-- F.Tygstrup Index.

• This book explores the varied ways in which modernist and postcolonial innovations in fiction are motivated by crises and revolutions in the human perception and appropriation of space. 'Space' for the writers concerned has its political, historical, cultural and gender dimensions as well as its geographical identity. -- Literary Landscapes challenges the popular view that fictional representations of place and space by modernist authors have little or nothing in common with those of postcolonial writers. Detailed studies of the work of authors such as Thomas Hardy, Franz Kafka, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Jean Rhys, Virginia Woolf, Pauline Smith, J. M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda, Nuruddin Farah, Isabel Allende, Jose Donoso, Rosario Ferre and Andre Brink help to form a more complex understanding of the varied and shared ways in which two groups of writers experience and represent space and place. 
• 'This is a very well considered essay collection that includes some experienced and highly able scholars. The essays in the volume are original, cross-cultural in content, and make a valuable contribution to the burgeoning field of geographies in literature.' -- Linda Dryden, Reader in Literature and Culture, Napier University, UK. 

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