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Literary Landscapes

From Modernism to Postcolonialism

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Attie Lange

    1. Potchefstroom Campus, North-West University, South Africa

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  2. Gail Fincham

    1. University of Cape Town, South Africa

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  3. Jeremy Hawthorn

    1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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  4. Jakob Lothe

    1. University of Oslo, Norway

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Space, Time, Narrative: From Thomas Hardy to Franz Kafka and J. M. Coetzee

    • Jakob Lothe
    Pages 1-18

  3. The American Spaces of Henry James

    • Merle A. Williams
    Pages 19-37

  4. Space and Place in the Novels of E. M. Forster

    • Gail Fincham
    Pages 38-57

  5. Travel as Incarceration: Jean Rhys’s After Leaving Mr Mackenzie

    • Jeremy Hawthorn
    Pages 58-74

  6. ‘Where Am I?’: Feminine Space and Time in Virginia Woolf’s The Years

    • Merry M. Pawlowski
    Pages 75-91

  7. Imagining the Karoo Landscape: Free Indirect Discourse, the Sublime, and the Consecration of White Poverty

    • Johan Geertsema
    Pages 92-108

  8. ‘Reading’ and ‘Constructing’ Space, Gender and Race: Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim and J. M. Coetzee’s Foe

    • Attie de Lange
    Pages 109-124

  9. Remains of the Name

    • Carrol Clarkson
    Pages 125-142

  10. Houses, Cellars and Caves in Selected Novels from Latin America and South Africa

    • Marita Wenzel
    Pages 143-160

  11. Transformation of Ordinary Places into Imaginative Space in Zakes Mda’s Writing

    • Ina Gräbe
    Pages 161-179

  12. No-Man’s Land: Nuruddin Farah’s Links and the Space of Postcolonial Alienation

    • Harry Garuba
    Pages 180-197

  13. Changing Spaces: Salman Rushdie’s Mapping of Post-Colonial Territories

    • Frederik Tygstrup
    Pages 198-213

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 214-221
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About this book

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.

Reviews

'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

'This in-depth and carefully argued collection of essays...has a strong cross-cultural premise that emphasizes the significant ways in which the experience and depiction of space and place in modernist and postcolonial literary texts overlap.'

- Susan Smit-Marais, PYP Online

Editors and Affiliations

  • Potchefstroom Campus, North-West University, South Africa

    Attie Lange

  • University of Cape Town, South Africa

    Gail Fincham

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Jeremy Hawthorn

  • University of Oslo, Norway

    Jakob Lothe

About the editors

CARROL CLARKSON, teacher, University of Cape Town, South Africa. HARRY GARUBA is Associate Professor at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa, with a joint appointment in the English Department. JOHAN GEERTSEMA is Assistant Professor in the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore. INA GRÄBE is Emeritus Professor of Theory of Literature, University of South Africa (UNISA). MERRY M. PAWLOWSKI, teacher, California State University, Bakersfield, USA. FREDERIK TYGSTRUP is the Director of the Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. MARITA WENZEL is Associate Professor of English, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. MERLE A. WILLIAMS is Personal Professor of English and Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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