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Lands of Desire and Loss: British Colonial and Postcolonial Spaces

Lands of Desire and Loss: British Colonial and Postcolonial Spaces

Nicoletta Brazzelli
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"Lands of Desire and Loss" develops an interdisciplinary approach connecting the literary and geographical imagination which shape British perception and representation of colonial and postcolonial spaces. Through her readings of literary works belonging to the dawn of colonial enterprises , the heyday of the British Empire and the postcolonial consciousness refashioning old myths and cultural tropes , the author highlights the crucial role of ideology in narrative plots and literary metaphors concerning space. The imaginative focus of the book is El Dorado, a geographical and literary construction created and recreated at different times, shaped and reshaped in British colonial and postcolonial writing.
Pages
312
Format
ebook
Publisher
Heinemann Publishing
Release
April 02, 2013
ISBN
1299433200
ISBN 13
9781299433205

Lands of Desire and Loss: British Colonial and Postcolonial Spaces

Nicoletta Brazzelli
0/5 ( ratings)
"Lands of Desire and Loss" develops an interdisciplinary approach connecting the literary and geographical imagination which shape British perception and representation of colonial and postcolonial spaces. Through her readings of literary works belonging to the dawn of colonial enterprises , the heyday of the British Empire and the postcolonial consciousness refashioning old myths and cultural tropes , the author highlights the crucial role of ideology in narrative plots and literary metaphors concerning space. The imaginative focus of the book is El Dorado, a geographical and literary construction created and recreated at different times, shaped and reshaped in British colonial and postcolonial writing.
Pages
312
Format
ebook
Publisher
Heinemann Publishing
Release
April 02, 2013
ISBN
1299433200
ISBN 13
9781299433205

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