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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 April 2012
- ISBN 9780199796106
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 160x239x22 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 illustrations 0
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Short description:
World Views examines literary representations of spatial form within the contexts of the emerging disciplines of geography, geopolitics, and international relations, positing that modernism's experimental engagements with space intended to imagine alternatives to the new world order.
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Early in the twentieth century, many novelists and geographers were attempting a similar undertaking: to connect everyday human experience to the large, unseen structures that formed the planet itself. World Views shows how both modernist and postcolonial writers borrowed metaphors and concepts from geography, advancing theories of space, culture, and community within the formal structures of literary narrative.
In contrast to the pervasive sense of the globe as a "jigsaw-puzzle" of nations, writers as diverse as Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, James Joyce, Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Amitav Ghosh imagined alternative versions of the world that were made up of other spatial building blocks-continents, regions, islands, and boundaries, to name a few. Hegglund argues that much of what scans as modernist experimentation with fictional form is simply another, more geographically based kind of realism: one that pushes the structural and stylistic resources of the novel to account for those abstract spaces beyond immediate, local human experience. Hegglund therefore extends many accounts of modernist and postcolonial studies by showing how writers on all sides of imperial and colonial conflict were concerned not just with the particularities of local place and cultural identity, but also with the overarching structures that could potentially encompass a single, unified earth.
Through this sustained attention to both the micro-details of narrative aesthetics and the macro-scale of world geography, World Views adds a new and valuable perspective to both literary and cultural accounts of globalization.
World Views uncovers a vital, but heretofore neglected, aspect of modernist critique. The metageographies of modernist fiction allow us to see the world on multiple scales, including the national; to map our surroundings based on embodiment and local practices; and to think about the connections between mapping and textuality: the circuitous, twisting, contingent, and ambiguous lines that both extend and limit our purview.
Table of Contents:
CONTINENT
Modernism, Geographical Determinism, and the Image of Africa
REGION
Geddes, Forster, and the Situated Eye
Chapter Three
INTERNAL COLONY
The Spectral Cartographies of Ulysses
ISLAND
Rhys, Kincaid, and the Myth of Insular Sovereignty
BOUNDARY
Nehru, Ghosh, and the Enchantment of Lines
Index
