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Piper, Karen Lynnea.

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Territories of the novel: Borders, identities, and displacements in twentieth-century fiction.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Territories of the novel: Borders, identities, and displacements in twentieth-century fiction./
Author:	Piper, Karen Lynnea.
Description:	220 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-07, Section: A, page: 3009.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-07A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9638108
ISBN:	9780591036244

Territories of the novel: Borders, identities, and displacements in twentieth-century fiction.
Piper, Karen Lynnea.

Territories of the novel: Borders, identities, and displacements in twentieth-century fiction. - 220 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-07, Section: A, page: 3009.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 1996.

The struggle between colonizer and colonized in the twentieth-century novel is reflected in representations of territory. This study analyzes various methods of geographical mapping, including cartography and land use law, and compares them to forms of representation within five twentieth-century novels. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's notion of de- and reterritorialization provides a useful framework for understanding these colonial cartographic methods. The impact of mapping on identity is also explored, using Fredric Jameson's theory of "cognitive mapping." Ultimately, the dissertation redefines the relation between postmodern and post-colonial discourse, using territory as a touchstone.

ISBN: 9780591036244Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Territories of the novel: Borders, identities, and displacements in twentieth-century fiction.
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520 $a In E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, the reiterated trope of the "muddle" could be compared to the colonizer's inability to map India's boundaries, and the contemporaneous struggles going on within British cartography. In Marguerite Duras' The Vice-Consul, French attempts to unify Indochina are perpetually thwarted by the mass migrations of the colonized, as represented by the displaced Cambodian subject. Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children also deals with unification and migration, but this time the unification of the post-colonial nation, which exists in a state of what Homi Bhabha calls "liminal hybridity." Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony depicts several territories, from the reservation to the municipality, and demonstrates how the main character shifts as he crosses over these boundaries. And Don DeLillo's White Noise exists in the realm of the postmodern erasure of territorial signifiers, the space of the hyperreal where cognitive mapping fails.
520 $a In each of these novels, struggles prevail over who will control representations of the territory. Whether territorial signification is highlighted or veiled, representations of space are a contested terrain. Territories and characters are continually being de- and reterritorialized as the geographical powers of colonialism wax and wane. This project analyzes both the methods and the lapses of these colonial mappings, as well as reading the territorial claims of the colonized that are continually erupting through the surface of the colonizer's geographies.
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