EAN: 9783034310512

LANDS OF DESIRE AND LOSS - NICOLETTA BRAZZELLI ...

Lands of Desire and Loss develops an interdisciplinary approach connecting the literary and
geographical imagination which shape British perception and representation of colonial and
postcolonial spaces. Through her readings of literary works belonging to the dawn of colonial
enterprises (Walter Raleigh's The Discoverie of Guiana and Shakespeare's The Tempest)  the
heyday of the British Empire (H. Rider Haggard's She and W.H. Hudson's Green Mansions) and the
postcolonial consciousness refashioning old myths and cultural tropes (V.S. Naipaul's A Way in
the World)  the author highlights the crucial role of ideology in narrative plots and literary
metaphors concerning space. The imaginative focus of the book is El Dorado  a geographical and
literary construction created and recreated at different times  shaped and reshaped in British
colonial and postcolonial writing.

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