Literature’s Sensuous Geographies

1. Introduction
Sten Pultz Moslund

Part I. Theories

2. The Tenor of Place, Language, and Body in Postcolonial Studies
Sten Pultz Moslund

3. Sensuous Empires and Silent Calls of the Earth
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4. Postcolonial Aesthetics and the Politics of the Sensible
Sten Pultz Moslund

5. How to Read Place in Literature with the Body: Language as Poiesis-Aisthesis
Sten Pultz Moslund

Part II. Analyses

6. Mind, Eye, Body, and Place in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974)
Sten Pultz Moslund

7. Silent Geographies in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902)
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8. Nation and Embodied Experiences of the Place World in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958)
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9. Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa (1937): Colonial Aesthetic and Decolonial Aisthesis
Sten Pultz Moslund

10. The Settler’s Language and Emplacement in Patrick White’s Voss (1957)
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11. Place, Language, and Body in the Caribbean Experience and the Example of Harold Sonny Ladoo’s No Pain Like This Body (1972)
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12. Place and Sensuous Geographies in Migration Literature
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13. Spatial Transgressions and Migrant Aesthetics in David Dabydeen’s Disappearance (1993)
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14. Coda
Sten Pultz Moslund

Keywords: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Fiction, Literary History, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature