Postcolonial Spatialities

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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. 

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Premises and Paradoxes
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James Holston

The 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.

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The Hunt
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Kevin Lewis O'Neill

O'Neill follows hunters through the landscape of Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers in Guatemala City.

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Introduction
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Jovan Scott Lewis
Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity.
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Spatialization: A Strategy for Reading Narrative
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Susan Stanford Friedman

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. 

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Introduction: The Production of Space in Singapore, Seoul, Taipei
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Jini Kim Watson
To understand the coherence of the New Asian City as category, we must consider, in broad strokes, the colonial and postcolonial histories of Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea, which are as different from each other as they are from the more usual regions examined by postcolonial studies.

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