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Postcolonial Spaces

The Politics of Place in Contemporary Culture

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Editors:
  1. Andrew Teverson

    1. Kingston University, London, UK

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  2. Sara Upstone

    1. Kingston University, London, UK

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With essays from a range of geographies and bringing together influential scholars across a range of disciplines, this book focuses on the role of space in the study of the politics of contemporary postcolonial experience, engaging with the spectrum of postcolonial spatialities which play a significant role in defining global postcolonial culture.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrew Teverson, Sara Upstone
    Pages 1-13

  3. English somewheres Caryl Phillips and the English North

    • John McLeod
    Pages 14-27

  4. A few words about the role of the Cartographers

    • Nicholas Dunlop
    Pages 28-39

  5. ‘How does your garden grow?’ or Jamaica Kincaid’s spatial praxis in My Garden (Book): and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya

    • Wendy Knepper
    Pages 40-56

  6. Gender and space in postcolonial fiction

    • Elizabeth Jackson
    Pages 57-66

  7. From hijab to sweatshops

    • Monica Germanà
    Pages 67-82

  8. Overlapping space and the negotiation of cultural identity

    • Shehrazade Emmambokus
    Pages 83-96

  9. Owning the city

    • Caroline Herbert
    Pages 97-111

  10. Postcolonial purgatory

    • James Graham
    Pages 112-128

  11. Third space, abstract space and coloniality

    • Sarah A. Radcliffe
    Pages 129-145

  12. Security, territory, and colonial populations

    • Stephen Legg
    Pages 146-163

  13. The geography of theory

    • Tariq Jazeel
    Pages 164-184

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 185-208
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Reviews

'This is an important and timely publication which makes a persuasive case for a more sustained engagement with the politics of space in postcolonial studies. Its interdisciplinary range of reference makes for a rich and multifaceted approach to its subject.' - Michelle Keown, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • Kingston University, London, UK

    Andrew Teverson, Sara Upstone

About the editors

NICHOLAS DUNLOP Lecturer in English Literature and Film, University of Birmingham, UK SHEHRAZADE EMMABOKUS Doctoral Candidate, Kingston University, UK MONICA GERMANA Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing, University of Westminster, UK JAMES GRAHAM Lecturer in Communication and Culture, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Middlesex University, UK CAROLINE HERBERT Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK ELIZABETH JACKSON Lecturer in Literatures in English, University of the West Indies, Trinidad TARIQ JAZEEL Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Sheffield, UK WENDY KNEPPER Lecturer in English, Brunel University, UK STEPHEN LEGG Assistant Professor in the School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK JOHN MCLEOD Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures at the School of English, University of Leeds, UK SARAH A. RADCLIFFE Reader in Latin American Geography, University of Cambridge, UK

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Postcolonial Spaces

  • Book Subtitle: The Politics of Place in Contemporary Culture

  • Editors: Andrew Teverson, Sara Upstone

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230342514

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-25225-7Published: 03 October 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32186-5Published: 01 January 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-34251-4Published: 03 October 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 208

  • Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature

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