Postcolonial Literary Geographies: Out of Place

by John Thieme

This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as fixed and unchanging and are remapping conceptions of world geography, with chapters on cartography, botany and gardens, spice, ecologies, animals and zoos, and cities, as well as reference to the importance of archaeology and travel in such debates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137456868
• ISBN13: 9781137456861
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.3"