Postcolonial Spatialities
On one reading, postcolonial studies seem to be riveted more firmly on temporal as opposed to spatial questions. This may be traced partly to the effect of the temporalizing "post-" in the term postcolonialism, which has allowed an insistence on various dates as inaugurating the epochal postcolonial relation.
MoreThe journey to Brasília across the Central Plateau of Brazil is one of separation. It confronts the traveler with the separation of modernist BrasíIia from the familiar Brazil.
O'Neill follows hunters through the landscape of Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers in Guatemala City.
The denial of lower, coarse, vulgar, venal, servile—in a word, natural—enjoyment, which constitutes the sacred sphere of culture, implies an affirmation of the superiority of those who can be satisfied with the sublimated, refined, disinterested, gratuitous, distinguished pleasures forever closed to...
Friedman adapts Julia Kristeva's spatial tropes to suggest that we can read narrative by interpreting the text's horizontal and vertical narrative movements and intersections.