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Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces: Colonial Borders in French and Francophone Literature and Film

Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces: Colonial Borders in French and Francophone Literature and Film

Chandna, Mohit

Paperback

Literary CriticismFilm & Video Art

ISBN10: 946270273X
ISBN13: 9789462702738
Publisher: Leuven Univ Pr
Published: Apr 15 2021
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Colonialism advanced its project of territorial expansion by changing the very meaning of borders and space. The colonial project scripted a unipolar spatial discourse that saw the colonies as an extension of European borders. In his monograph, Mohit Chandna engages with narrations of spatial conflicts in French and Francophone literature and film from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. In literary works by Jules Verne, Ananda Devi, and Patrick Chamoiseau, and film by Michael Haneke, Chandna analyzes the depiction of ever-changing borders and spatial grammar within the colonial project. In so doing, he also examines the ongoing resistance to the spatial legacies of colonial practices that act as omnipresent enforcers of colonial borders. Literature and film become sites that register colonial spatial paradigms and advance competing narratives that fracture the dominance of these borders.

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