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Ramlagan, Michelle N.

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(Re)placing nation: Postcolonial women's contestations of spatial discourse.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	(Re)placing nation: Postcolonial women's contestations of spatial discourse./
Author:	Ramlagan, Michelle N.
Description:	176 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-11, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-11A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3468294
ISBN:	9781124821634

(Re)placing nation: Postcolonial women's contestations of spatial discourse.
Ramlagan, Michelle N.

(Re)placing nation: Postcolonial women's contestations of spatial discourse. - 176 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-11, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Miami, 2011.

(Re)Placing Nations: Postcolonial Women's Contestations of Spatial Discourses reads the proliferation of literary representations of landscapes in recent work by Jamaica Kincaid, Shani Mootoo, Edwidge Danticat, Yvonne Vera, Monica Arac de Nyeko and Toni Morrison as a trope for rethinking the nation as a space with physical boundaries. In this project I make the distinction between space as an ideological construct and place as a physical entity. Both place and space are connected to ideologies yet have specific implications for constructions of gender and sexuality. My project considers the dual yet dialectically related processes of creating physical space and identity formation. Recent frames for engaging questions of citizenship and belonging have more sought to be broadly diasporic. This analysis re-centers these debates in more localized spatial discourses. I argue that writers examined in my project revise literary forms such as the pastoral, cartographic tropes, garden writing and the peasant novel in order to deconstruct various national divisions of space and place that exclude women, ethnic minorities and rural citizens. My project posits that contemporary African and African diaspora women's literature constructs these places as open and evolving in a dialectical relationship with communities whose subject formation is intimately connected to their physical environments. By insisting on these distinctions, formerly rigid boundaries that separated the public from the private, the rural from the urban, the migrant from the rooted are challenged along with the implicit geography of power that scaffolds these separations.

ISBN: 9781124821634Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

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