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Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction (New World Studies)
Stanka Radovic
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Description for Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction (New World Studies)
Paperback. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 331.
While postcolonial discourse in the Caribbean has drawn attention to colonialism’s impact on space and spatial hierarchy, Stanka Radović asks both how ordinary people as “users” of space have been excluded from active and autonomous participation in shaping their daily spatial reality and how they challenge this exclusion. In a comparative interdisciplinary reading of anglophone and francophone Caribbean literature and contemporary spatial theory, she focuses on the house as a literary figure and the ways that fiction and acts of storytelling resist the oppressive hierarchies of colonial and neocolonial domination. The author engages with the theories of Henri Lefebvre, Michel ... Read more
While postcolonial discourse in the Caribbean has drawn attention to colonialism’s impact on space and spatial hierarchy, Stanka Radović asks both how ordinary people as “users” of space have been excluded from active and autonomous participation in shaping their daily spatial reality and how they challenge this exclusion. In a comparative interdisciplinary reading of anglophone and francophone Caribbean literature and contemporary spatial theory, she focuses on the house as a literary figure and the ways that fiction and acts of storytelling resist the oppressive hierarchies of colonial and neocolonial domination. The author engages with the theories of Henri Lefebvre, Michel ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
New World Studies
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813936291
SKU
V9780813936291
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Ref
99-17
About Stanka Radovic
Stanka Radović is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada.
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