Maps of Empire : : A Topography of World Literature / / Kyle Wanberg.
During the political upheavals of the mid-twentieth century, as imperialism was unraveling on a grand scale, writers from colonized and occupied spaces questioned the necessity and ethics of their histories. As empire "wrote back" to the self-ordained centres of the world, modes of represe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural Spaces
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 2 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Cartography and the Space of World Literature
- 1. A Portmanteau of the Nation in Imīl Habībī’s The Pessoptimist
- 2. The Literary Space of Authority in Camara Laye’s Le Regard du roi
- 3. Imperial Palimpsest or Exquisite Corpse: Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de violence
- 4. Disorientation and Horror in Sadeq Hedayat’s The Blind Owl
- 5. Orality and the Space of Translation in the Pima Ant Songs
- Afterword: Decolonizing Literary Space
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cultural Spaces