R. West-Pavlov

Spaces of Fiction / Fictions of Space

Postcolonial Place and Literary DeiXis

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Produktbeschreibung

Reading a wide range of well known postcolonial writers along with more recent authors, Spaces of Fiction / Fictions of Space implements a new theory of literary spatial marking derived from the linguistic theory of deixis, and made accessible via an analysis of Beckett's 'semi-colonial' play Waiting for Godot .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-23776-6
• 2009
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9780230237766
• ISBN-10: 0230237762
• Artikelnr.: 27406719

Autorenporträt

RUSSELL WEST-PAVLOV is Professor of Postcolonial Literatures at the Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Notes on Translations Introduction: Deixis - Borges/Calvino PART I: THE SPACES OF FICTION Deixis and I - Beckett I From Deictics to DeiXis - Beckett II Narrative Space - Conrad I/Gide/Kristeva/Shklovsky Anadiplosis - Conrad II/Dabydeen/Wolf PART II: THE FICTIONS OF SPACE Spatial Amnesia - Ondaatje/Desai Imperial Deixis - Naipaul/Dunbar/Keats/Kipling/Césaire/Rhys/Roy/Rushdie Self-Reflexive Deixis And The Aporias Of The Nation - Mcfarlane/Achebe/Ng?g? Critiques Of National Narratives - Davison/Fanon/Kourouma/Wicomb/Vassanji Deixis And Loss - Muecke/Fatoba/Naipaul/Warner/Chamoiseau/Glissant Deixis Rediscovered - Malouf/Forster/Ondaatje/Scott/Neidjie Conclusion: 'here fix the tablet' - Field/Grenville Bibliography Index