Locating the Destitute Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction |
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| Author:
| Radovic, Stanka |
| Series title: | New World Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-3629-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.50 |
Book Description:
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While postcolonial discourse in the Caribbean has drawn attention to colonialism's impact on space and spatial hierarchy, Stanka Radovi asks both how ordinary people as "users" of space have been excluded from active and autonomous participation in shaping their daily spatial reality and how they challenge this exclusion. She focuses on the house as a literary figure and the ways that fiction and acts of storytelling resist the oppressive hierarchies of colonial and neocolonial domination.
While postcolonial discourse in the Caribbean has drawn attention to colonialism's impact on space and spatial hierarchy, Stanka Radovi asks both how ordinary people as "users" of space have been excluded from active and autonomous participation in shaping their daily spatial reality and how they challenge this exclusion. She focuses on the house as a literary figure and the ways that fiction and acts of storytelling resist the oppressive hierarchies of colonial and neocolonial domination.