Sara Mills

Gender and Colonial Space

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a trenchant analysis of social relations - notions of class, nationality, gender, spatial relations, landscape, topography and travel - in postcolonial contexts Draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary texts to illustrate a fresh, more materialist approach to postcolonial theory Demonstrates the importance of gender in the postcolonial theorising of space Concentrates on the period of 'high' British colonialism at the close of the nineteenth century, and examines a range of contexts across India, Africa, America, Australia and Britain Illustrates how relations must be analysed for the way in which different colonial contexts define and constitute each other

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Sara Mills offers""a trenchant analysis of the complexities of social relations--including notions of class, nationality and gender--and spatial relations, landscape, topography and travel, in post-colonial contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 199
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780719053351
• ISBN-10: 0719053358
• Artikelnr.: 21414157

Autorenporträt

Sara Mills is Research Professor in Linguistics at Sheffield Hallam University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Colonial subjectivity, gender and space 3. Knowing and
viewing landscape 4. Public and domestic colonial architecture 5.
Indigenous spatiality within the colonial sphere 6. Conclusions
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