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French literature (outside France) --- Fantastic narrative --- Imaginary Country --- Mythes geographiques --- Voyages imaginaires --- Pamukalie (lieu imaginaire) --- Descriptions et voyages

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"Place and Locality in Modern France is an edited collection that successfully analyses the significance and changing constructions of local place in modern France. Drawing on the expertise of a range of scholars from around the world, this book is a timely overview of the cross-disciplinary thinking that is currently taking place over a central issue in French history. The book investigates the politics of administrative reform, regionalism and projects of decentralization. It looks at the role of commerce in engendering narratives and experience of local place, explores the importance of ethnic, class and gender distinctions, and considers the generation and transmission of knowledge about local place and culture through academia, civic heritage and popular memory. In short, this text provides a sweeping account of the concept of the 'local' in French history in a way that will effectively bridge the divide between micro- and macro-history for those interested in ideas of locality and culture in modern French and European history"--

HISTORY / Social History. --- HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century. --- Lieu (Philosophie) --- Sociology of culture --- anno 1900-1999 --- France --- Regionalism --- Place (Philosophy) --- Space and time --- Régionalisme --- Espace et temps --- History. --- History, Local. --- Social life and customs. --- Histoire --- Histoire locale --- Moeurs et coutumes

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Apartheid and Beyond is a major contribution to the study of South African literary culture. It offers elegant readings of Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form revealed in their work. It also explores the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons. Though in the first instance concerned with literary texts, Apartheid and Beyond also meditates on crucial historical processes like colonial occupation, the creation of black townships, migration, forced removals, the emergence of informal settlements, the gradual integration of white cities, and efforts at land reform. Cumulatively, the six essays in this book tell the story of the transformation of apartheid's landscapes of oppression into the more ambiguous landscapes of contemporary South Africa: landscapes of tourism and leisure, of crime and privatized security, of uncontrolled urbanization and persistent poverty. Barnard's methodologically eclectic writing draws on the work of major European and U.S. theorists like Foucault, De Certeau, and Jameson, as well as important African intellectuals like Mbembe, Ramphele, and Ndebele. It also takes literary figures seriously as theorists of space in their own right. Apartheid and Beyond is both an innovative account of an important body of politically-inflected literature and an imaginative reflection on the socio-spatial aspects of the transition from apartheid to democracy.

Thematology --- English literature: authors --- South Africa --- South African literature (English) --- Apartheid in literature. --- Place (Philosophy) in literature --- Littérature sud-africaine (anglaise) --- Apartheid dans la littérature --- Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature --- Place (Philosophy) in literature. --- Littérature sud-africaine (anglaise) --- Apartheid dans la littérature --- Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature --- Afrique du Sud dans la littérature --- Politics and literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- In literature. --- Politics and government --- Politique et littérature --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Afrique du Sud --- Politique et gouvernement --- South Africa literature (English) --- Apartheid in literature --- Place (philosophy) in literature --- in literature --- Politics and governmant

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"The study of space and place is unquestionably becoming an important research focus in the humanities and social sciences. And while there is an expanding body of theoretical work on the importance of these concepts in various disciplines, less attention has been paid to how spatial ideas and approaches can actually be deployed to understand the societies, cultures, and mentalities of the past. In this volume, leading experts explore the uses of space in two respects: how spatial concepts can be employed by or applied to the study of history, and how spaces and spatial ideas were used for practical and ideological purposes in specific periods. Together, the contributors represent a comprehensive range of disciplines concerned with space and history, including archaeology, social history, intellectual history, imperial history, geography, and cartography, allowing for an unusually broad variety of case studies and perspectives"--Provided by publisher.

World history --- anno 1500-1799 --- History --- Historiography --- History, Modern. --- Space --- Spatial behavior --- Place (Philosophy) --- Social ecology. --- Human ecology. --- Histoire --- Historiographie --- Histoire moderne et contemporaine --- Espace --- Comportement spatial --- Lieu (Philosophie) --- Ecologie sociale --- Ecologie humaine --- Philosophy. --- Methodology. --- Social aspects --- Philosophie --- Méthodologie --- Aspect social --- Méthodologie

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Thematology --- French literature --- Landscape in literature --- Landscapes in literature --- Landschap in de literatuur --- Landschappen in de literatuur --- Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature --- Paysage dans la littérature --- Paysages dans la littérature --- Plaats (Filosofie) in de literatuur --- Place (Philosophy) in literature --- Landscapes in literature. --- Place (Philosophy) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism