The geography of narrative: Representations of place in African literature
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام ساير پديدآوران
;supervisor: Caminero-Santangelo, Byron
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
University of Kansas: United States -- Kansas
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
: 2013
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
175 Pages
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
Questions of geography have been prominent in the criticism of both African literature in particular and postcolonialism in general, including, for instance, issues regarding the nation, globalization, and the urban. Yet most discussions regarding these geographic concerns have remained dichotomous, resulting in criticism that fails to attend to the complexity with which African authors tend to represent the places of their writing. By engaging with a wide range of work in cultural geography, this dissertation develops what might be termed geocriticism , a model for understanding such geographic issues through the relations of space, place, and scale. With this model, the dissertation argues for ways to understand concepts like the nation or the local/global not as essential categories with set characteristics, but as relationally and historically particular constructs. By doing so, we can attend with more nuance to the ways African authors represent the conditions and relations of place in their narratives. The model of geocriticism developed in this dissertation elucidates the ways each of the authors discussed in some way understands the particular conditions and locations they write about as being influenced by large-scale entanglements with the continent and the world. Despite their geographic and historical breadth and varied representational strategies, they all in some sense engage with questions about "Africa" and it's place-in-the-world, providing both multiform ways to understand the consequences of Africa's position and various alternative visions for the continent and its constituent places.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
African literature
موضوع مستند نشده
Geography
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Language
اصطلاح موضوعی
literature and linguistics
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social sciences
اصطلاح موضوعی
African literature
اصطلاح موضوعی
Cultural geography
اصطلاح موضوعی
Geocriticism
اصطلاح موضوعی
Place
اصطلاح موضوعی
Postcolonialism
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