Maps of empire : a topography of world literature

Maps of empire : a topography of world literature / Kyle Wanberg.

"During the political and historical upheavals of the mid-20th century, writers from colonized and occupied spaces questioned the necessity and ethics of their histories. Uncertainties about how to represent shifting spaces were reflected in the work of scholars and audiences reading works writ...

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Main Author: Wanberg, Kyle, 1980- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Series:Cultural spaces.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Cartography in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Colonization in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century .
Cartography in literature
Colonization in literature
Imperialism in literature
Literature, Modern
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • 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

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