Spaces of Fiction/fictions of Space - Postcolonial Place and Literary Deixis

Informationen zum Autor RUSSELL WEST-PAVLOV is Professor of Postcolonial Literatures at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Klappentext 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 . Zusammenfassung 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 . Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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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

Product details

• Authors: R West-Pavlov, R. West-Pavlov, Russell West-Pavlov
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2009
• EAN: 9780230237766
• ISBN: 978-0-230-23776-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Linguistics, general, Language: history & general works, Literary theory, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning, Language and languages—Study and teaching, Language Teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Literature—Philosophy