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Postcolonial con-texts : writing back to the canon
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ISBN: 0826454666 0826454658 9786611298333 1281298336 1847143113 9781847143112 9780826454669 9781847143112 9780826454652 9781281298331 Year: 2001 Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum,


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Postcolonial Literary Geographies : Out of Place
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ISBN: 1137456876 1137456868 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as fixed and unchanging and are remapping conceptions of world geography, with chapters on cartography, botany and gardens, spice, ecologies, animals and zoos, and cities, as well as reference to the importance of archaeology and travel in such debates. Writers whose work receives detailed attention include Amitav Ghosh, Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje and Robert Kroetsch. Challenging both older colonial and more recent global constructions of place, the book argues for an environmental politics that is attentive to the concerns of disadvantaged peoples, animal rights and ecological issues. Its range and insights make it essential reading for anyone interested in the changing physical and human geography of the contemporary world.

R. K. Narayan
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ISBN: 1781701245 1847791964 9781847791962 9781781701249 9780719059278 0719059275 9780719059261 0719059267 1847795366 Year: 2013 Publisher: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press,

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R.K. Narayan's reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a chronicler of "authentic" Indianness, John Thieme locates his fiction in terms of its specific South Indian contexts and cultural geography and its non-Indian intertexts. The study also considers the effect that Narayan's writing for overseas publication had on novels such as Swami and Friends, The Guide and The Man-Eater of Malgudi.Narayan's imaginary

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