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Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces: Colonial Borders in French and Francophone Literature and Film
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Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces: Colonial Borders in French and Francophone Literature and Film
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Mohit Chandna
2021
Published by:
Leuven University Press
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Colonial expansion and spatial grammar in French-language works from different historical and national contexts
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.
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Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
pp. 7-9
Note on Translations
pp. 11
Acknowledgements
pp. 13-14
Prologue
pp. 15-18
Chapter 1. Introduction: Charting Course
pp. 19-44
Chapter 2. Around the World in Eighty (One) Days
pp. 45-106
Chapter 3. Dislocating the Indian Nation: Ananda Devi’s Homelands
pp. 107-154
Chapter 4. Martinique: Space, Language, Gender
pp. 155-204
Chapter 5. Out of Place: French Family at (Algerian) War
pp. 205-238
Epilogue: Interjecting Passages
pp. 239-252
Notes
pp. 253-286
Bibliography
pp. 287-301
Additional Information
ISBN
9789461663832
Related ISBN(s)
9789461663849, 9789462702738
DOI
10.1353/book.85556
MARC Record
OCLC
1259363629
Launched on MUSE
2021-08-13
Language
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
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