Spaces of fiction / Fictions of space: postcolonial place and literary deixis

Reading a wide range of well known postcolonial writers along with more recent authors, Spaces of Fiction / Fictions of Space implements a new theory of literary spatial marking derived from the linguistic theory of deixis, and made accessible via an analysis of Beckett's 'semi-colonial' play Waiting for Godot INDICE: Acknowledgements - Notes on Translations - Introduction: Deixis - Borges/Calvino - PART I: THE SPACES OF FICTION - Deixis and I - Beckett I - From Deictics to DeiXis - Beckett II - Narrative Space - Conrad I/Gide/Kristeva/Shklovsky - Anadiplosis - Conrad II/Dabydeen/Wolf - PART II: THE FICTIONS OF SPACE - Spatial Amnesia - Ondaatje/Desai - Imperial Deixis - Naipaul/Dunbar/Keats/Kipling/Césaire/Rhys/Roy/Rushdie - Self-Reflexive Deixis And The Aporias OfThe Nation - Mcfarlane/Achebe/Ngugi - Critiques Of National Narratives - Davison/Fanon/Kourouma/Wicomb/Vassanji - Deixis And Loss - Muecke/Fatoba/Naipaul/Warner/Chamoiseau/Glissant - Deixis Rediscovered - Malouf/Forster/Ondaatje/Scott/Neidjie - Conclusion: 'here fix the tablet' - Field/Grenville - Bibliography- Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23776-6
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 18/12/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés