Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces

Mohit Chandna • Boek • paperback

• Samenvatting
  Colonialism advanced its project of territorial expansion by changing the very meaning of borders and space. The colonial project scripted a unipolar spatial discourse that saw the colonies as an extension of European borders. In his monograph, Mohit Chandna engages with narrations of spatial conflicts in French and Francophone literature and film from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. In literary works by Jules Verne, Ananda Devi, and Patrick Chamoiseau, and film by Michael Haneke, Chandna analyzes the depiction of ever-changing borders and spatial grammar within the colonial project. In so doing, he also examines the ongoing resistance to the spatial legacies of colonial practices that act as omnipresent enforcers of colonial borders. Literature and film become sites that register colonial spatial paradigms and advance competing narratives that fracture the dominance of these borders. Through its analyses Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces shows that colonialism is not a finished project relegated to our past. Colonialism is present in the here and now, and exercises its power through the borders that define us.
  
  Colonialism advanced its project of territorial expansion by changing the very meaning of borders and space. The colonial project scripted a unipolar spatial discourse that saw the colonies as an extension of European borders. In his monograph, Mohit Chandna engages with narrations of spatial conflicts in French and Francophone literature and film from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. In literary works by Jules Verne, Ananda Devi, and Patrick Chamoiseau, and film by Michael Haneke, Chandna analyzes the depiction of ever-changing borders and spatial grammar within the colonial project. In so doing, he also examines the ongoing resistance to the spatial legacies of colonial practices that act as omnipresent enforcers of colonial borders. Literature and film become sites that register colonial spatial paradigms and advance competing narratives that fracture the dominance of these borders. Through its analyses Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces shows that colonialism is not a finished project relegated to our past. Colonialism is present in the here and now, and exercises its power through the borders that define us.
• Productinformatie
  Binding : Paperback
  Distributievorm : Boek (print, druk)
  Formaat : 156mm x 237mm
  Aantal pagina's : 302
  Uitgeverij : Leuven University Press
  ISBN : 9789462702738
  Datum publicatie : 07-2021
  
• Inhoudsopgave
  Chapter 1: Introduction: Charting Course Anchoring Space - Doing Space - Geographies of Literature - Postmodern Spaces – Material - Histories Chapter 2: Around the World in Eighty (One) Days Section 1. Understanding Verne: Laying the Groundwork Verne and the World - Verne’s Geography - Geography on Verne - Reading Verne’s Geographies - Rounding up the World - Capital Repetitions: Monghir Section 2. Opium Silence and Nineteenth-Century French Literature Colonizing Hong Kong - Illegal Opium and Colonial Wealth - Opium Cities - Opium Race Chapter 3: Dislocating the Indian Nation: Ananda Devi’s Homelands Global Pathways - Along a Local Road - Dislocating Location - Grounding Identity - Patriarchal Homelands - Tango with India - Delhi’s Underbelly - Antipodal Itineraries - Desert Safari - Producing Dissent - Rediscovering India Chapter 4: Martinique: Space, Language, Gender Section 1. Contextualizing Texaco Texaco and its Significations - A Spatial Metaphor - Literary Margins: City and Language - Marie-Sophie as Texaco - Chamoiseau and Feminism - Reinventing the City Section 2. Martinique’s Literary Identity and French Borders Martinique: Colonial History, Postcolonial Literature - French Borders, Martinican Text Section 3. Text, Texaco and Landscape Texaco: Space and Language - Rewriting l’En-ville Section 4. France, Martinique and Marie-Sophie’s Body Marie-Sophie and Texaco - Marie-Sophie’s body and Martinique Chapter 5: Out of Place: French Family at (Algerian) War 205 Immaterial Differences - Locating Caché - White Lies - Hidden Agenda - Colonial Family; National Lies - Colonial Past; Cinematic Present - Escaping Images - Deadly Images Epilogue: Interjecting Passages Notes Bibliography
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