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100 1 $aMoslund, Sten Pultz,$eauthor.
245 10 $aLiterature's sensuous geographies :$bpostcolonial matters of place /$cSten Pultz Moslund.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2015.
300 $ax, 273 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aGeocriticism and spatial literary studies
520 $a"Literature's Sensuous Geographies offers a study of place in postcolonial literature and theory from other than the socio-cultural and political angles that have traditionally dominated the field. Moslund explores "sensuous geographies" (something that has so far been neglected in the study of place in literature) as opening up other than discursive relations to the world - other, non-territorial modes of being-in-the-world. The book develops a sense-aesthetic mode of reading (a "topo-poetics") and in close-readings of Conrad, Blixen, Coetzee and Achebe (among others), Moslund explores dimensions in literature that open up the place world as produced by desubjectified intensities of smell, sound, sight, touch, etc. Sense-aesthetic qualities of literary language are shown in this way as radically challenging the rationalizing logic of modernity (the inner logic of imperialism), at the heart of which Moslund identifies a disciplining of the senses and a reduction of the sensuous openness of reality. With his study of sensuous geographies in literature, Moslund makes a notable shift in the field of postcolonial studies and geocriticism from discourse analysis to aesthetic analysis"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Introduction PART I1. The Tenor of Place, Language and Body in Postcolonial Studies 2. Sensuous Empires and Silent Calls of the Earth 3. Postcolonial Aesthetics and the Politics of the Sensible 4. How to Read Place in Literature with the Body: Language as Poiesis-AisthesisPART II5. Mind, Eye, Body and Place in J. M. Coetzee's Dusklands (1974)6. Silent Geographies in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1902)7. Nation and Embodied Experiences of the Place World in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958)8. Karen Blixen's Out of Africa (1937): A Colonial Aesthetic and Decolonial Aisthesis9. The Settler's Language and Emplacement in Patrick White's Voss (1957)10. Place, Language, Body in the Caribbean Experience and the Example of Harold Sonny Ladoo's No Pain Like This Body (1972)11. Place and Sensuous Geographies in Migration Literature12. Spatial Transgressions and Migrant Aesthetics in David Dabydeen's Disappearance (1993)Coda.
650 0 $aGeography and literature.
650 0 $aPostcolonialism in literature.
650 0 $aGeocriticism.
650 0 $aPlace (Philosophy) in literature.
650 0 $aSenses and sensation in literature.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aGeocriticism.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01763930
650 7 $aGeography and literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01763929
650 7 $aPlace (Philosophy) in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01064981
650 7 $aPostcolonialism in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01073035
650 7 $aSenses and sensation in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01112595
830 0 $aGeocriticism and spatial literary studies.
852 00 $bglx$hPN56.G48$iM67 2015