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Writing Spatiality in West Africa

By Madhu Krishnan

Writing Spatiality in West Africa

By Madhu Krishnan

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From the "imaginative geographies" of conquest identified by Edward Said to the very real and material institution of territorial borders, regions and geographical amalgamations, the control, administration and integration of space are known to have played a central and essential role in the creation of contemporary "Africa". Space continues to be a site of conflict, from separatist struggles to the distribution of resources to the continued absorption ofAfrican territories into the uneven geographies of global capitalism.In this book, Madhu Krishnan examines the ways in which the anxieties and conflicts engendered by these phenomena are registered in a broad set of literarytexts from British and French West Africa. By placing these novels in dialogue with a range of archival material such as territorial planning documents, legislative papers, records of liberation movements and development projects, this book reveals the submerged articulations between spatial planning and literary expression, generating new readings of canonical West African texts as well as analyses of otherwise under-researched material.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
228
Release Date:
2022-04-15
Publication Date:
2022-04-15
Publisher:
James Currey
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1847013236
ISBN13:
9781847013231
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
354 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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