Gender and Colonial Space

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Gender and Colonial Space
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sara Mills
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:212
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreLiterary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9780719053368
ClassificationsDewey:809.93358
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 1 June 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Gender and colonial space is a trenchant analysis of the complex relation between social relations - including notions of class, nationality and gender - and spatial relations, landscape, architecture and topography - in post-colonial contexts. Arguing against much of the psychoanalytic focus of much current post-colonial theory, Mills aims to set out in a new direction, drawing on a wide range of literary and non-literary texts to develop a more materialist approach. She foregrounds gender in this field where it has often been marginalised by the critical orthodoxies, demonstrating its importance not only in spatial theorising in general, but in the post-colonial theorising of space in particular. Concentrating on the period of 'high' British colonialism at the close of the nineteenth century, she adroitly examines a range of contexts, looking at a range of colonial contexts such as India, Africa, America, Canada, Australia and Britain, illustrating how relations must be analysed for the way in which different colonial contexts define and constitute each other. -- .

Author Biography

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