CONTINENT
Modernism, Geographical Determinism, and the Image of Africa
REGION
Geddes, Forster, and the Situated Eye
Chapter Three
INTERNAL COLONY
The Spectral Cartographies of Ulysses
ISLAND
Rhys, Kincaid, and the Myth of Insular Sovereignty
BOUNDARY
Nehru, Ghosh, and the Enchantment of Lines
Index
Jon Hegglund is Associate Professor of English at Washington State
University.
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"Hegglund's methodological aims in World Views are as daring as his
prose is lucid. His book undertakes 'to read literature as
geography by other means' and, conversely, to read geographical
texts as literary (or at least rhetorical) in their reliance on
various symbols, tropes, and codes of representation. The result is
a genuinely interdisciplinary book: a refreshing, readable,
well-organized and nuanced contribution to the new global
modernist
studies." --Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania
"In World Views, Jon Hegglund makes the audacious claim that in the
modernist era the imagination became geographic in a new way.
Ranging widely in the borderlands of modernist and postcolonial
writing, and of geography and literature, this beautifully written
book offers a sweeping reassessment of modernism's scale-bending
experiments, and thus of modernism's take on all space. World Views
brilliantly recasts the spatial geopolitics of
modernism." --Enda Duffy, University of California, Santa
Barbara
"World Views is a superb book that provocatively intervenes into
current debates on global modernisms. In a set of exciting studies
of diverse writers such as James Joyce, E. M. Forster, Amitav
Ghosh, and Jawaharlal Nehru, Hegglund produces a persuasive account
of how we should read literary modernism as geography by other
means. World Views sets a new spatial agenda for modernist studies
and should be read by all interested in the field."
--Andrew Thacker, De Montfort University
"By charting a geographic turn beginning in early twentieth-century
writing, World Views offers a fresh approach to understanding
fiction from modernism to the present day. Hegglund provides a
carefully historicized, bracingly argued account of the continents
and regions, oceans and borders that abound in twentieth-century
'novels that work like maps.'" --John Marx, University of
California
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