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| contents | Between 1880 and 1930, the British Empire's vast infrastructural developments facilitated the incorporation of large parts of the globe into not only its imperial rule, but also the capitalist world-system. Throughout this period, colonial literary fiction, in recording this vast expansion, repeatedly cited these imperial infrastructures to make sense of the various colonial landscapes in which they were set. Physical embodiments of empire proliferate in this writing. Railways and trains, telegraph wires and telegrams, roads and bridges, steamships and shipping lines, canals and other forms of irrigation, cantonments, the colonial bungalow, and other kinds of colonial urban infrastructure - all of these infrastructural lines broke up the landscape and gave shape to the literary depiction and production of colonial space. By developing a methodology called «infrastructural reading», the author shows how a focus on the infrastructural networks that circulate through colonial fiction are almost always related to some form of anti-imperial resistance that manifests spatially within their literary, narrative and formal elements. This subversive reading strategy - which is applied in turn to writers as varied as H. Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner and John Buchan in South Africa, and Flora Annie Steel, E.M. Forster and Edward Thompson in India - demonstrates that these mostly pro-imperial writings can reveal an array of ideological anxieties, limitations and silences as well as more direct objections to and acts of violent defiance against imperial control and capitalist accumulation «For Davies, infrastructure in colonial fiction persists as a reminder of the economic unevenness inherent within the project of imperialism. Drawing on a range of thinkers (J.A. Hobson, Rosa Luxemburg, Edward Soja, Edward Said, amongst others), he argues that the inequality produced by global imperial capital takes on a distinct, and contradictory, spatial form in the colonies: underdevelopment coexists with development in these spaces as the shanty town is never too far from the developed roads, bridges, railways.» «Davies insists that an infrastructural mode of reading offers the only true record of resistance - a claim grounded in his privileging of a materialist/economic lens. Taking this interplay between real and imagined geographies a step further, he argues that infrastructures in fiction directly shape and organize spaces outside.» «[T]his a theoretically enlightening book that broadens our conceptual understanding of the multiple materialist registers on which infrastructures operate in colonial fiction.» (Niyati Sharma, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Vol. 54, Number 6 2019) |
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| spelling | Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 Tessa Roynon, Elleke Boehmer, Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, Patricia Daley, Aaron Kamugisha, Minkah Makalani, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Stephen Tuck, Dominic Davies 1st, New ed Oxford Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers 2017 1 Online-Ressource (310 Seiten) 20 ill txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Online resource; title from title screen (viewed June 27, 2019) Between 1880 and 1930, the British Empire's vast infrastructural developments facilitated the incorporation of large parts of the globe into not only its imperial rule, but also the capitalist world-system. Throughout this period, colonial literary fiction, in recording this vast expansion, repeatedly cited these imperial infrastructures to make sense of the various colonial landscapes in which they were set. Physical embodiments of empire proliferate in this writing. Railways and trains, telegraph wires and telegrams, roads and bridges, steamships and shipping lines, canals and other forms of irrigation, cantonments, the colonial bungalow, and other kinds of colonial urban infrastructure - all of these infrastructural lines broke up the landscape and gave shape to the literary depiction and production of colonial space. By developing a methodology called «infrastructural reading», the author shows how a focus on the infrastructural networks that circulate through colonial fiction are almost always related to some form of anti-imperial resistance that manifests spatially within their literary, narrative and formal elements. This subversive reading strategy - which is applied in turn to writers as varied as H. Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner and John Buchan in South Africa, and Flora Annie Steel, E.M. Forster and Edward Thompson in India - demonstrates that these mostly pro-imperial writings can reveal an array of ideological anxieties, limitations and silences as well as more direct objections to and acts of violent defiance against imperial control and capitalist accumulation «For Davies, infrastructure in colonial fiction persists as a reminder of the economic unevenness inherent within the project of imperialism. Drawing on a range of thinkers (J.A. Hobson, Rosa Luxemburg, Edward Soja, Edward Said, amongst others), he argues that the inequality produced by global imperial capital takes on a distinct, and contradictory, spatial form in the colonies: underdevelopment coexists with development in these spaces as the shanty town is never too far from the developed roads, bridges, railways.» «Davies insists that an infrastructural mode of reading offers the only true record of resistance - a claim grounded in his privileging of a materialist/economic lens. Taking this interplay between real and imagined geographies a step further, he argues that infrastructures in fiction directly shape and organize spaces outside.» «[T]his a theoretically enlightening book that broadens our conceptual understanding of the multiple materialist registers on which infrastructures operate in colonial fiction.» (Niyati Sharma, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Vol. 54, Number 6 2019) Geschichte 1880-1930 gnd rswk-swf Infrastruktur Motiv (DE-588)7847973-3 gnd rswk-swf Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd rswk-swf Imperialismus Motiv (DE-588)4299454-8 gnd rswk-swf Kolonialliteratur (DE-588)4210405-1 gnd rswk-swf Kapitalismus Motiv (DE-588)4221315-0 gnd rswk-swf (DE-588)4113937-9 Hochschulschrift gnd-content Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 s Kolonialliteratur (DE-588)4210405-1 s Imperialismus Motiv (DE-588)4299454-8 s Infrastruktur Motiv (DE-588)7847973-3 s Kapitalismus Motiv (DE-588)4221315-0 s Geschichte 1880-1930 z DE-604 Roynon, Tessa edt Boehmer, Elleke edt Collis-Buthelezi, Victoria edt Daley, Patricia edt Kamugisha, Aaron edt Makalani, Minkah edt Neveu Kringelbach, Hélène edt Tuck, Stephen edt Davies, Dominic Sonstige oth Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9781787074521 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9781787074538 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9781906165888 https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/11451?format=EPDF Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 Between 1880 and 1930, the British Empire's vast infrastructural developments facilitated the incorporation of large parts of the globe into not only its imperial rule, but also the capitalist world-system. Throughout this period, colonial literary fiction, in recording this vast expansion, repeatedly cited these imperial infrastructures to make sense of the various colonial landscapes in which they were set. Physical embodiments of empire proliferate in this writing. Railways and trains, telegraph wires and telegrams, roads and bridges, steamships and shipping lines, canals and other forms of irrigation, cantonments, the colonial bungalow, and other kinds of colonial urban infrastructure - all of these infrastructural lines broke up the landscape and gave shape to the literary depiction and production of colonial space. By developing a methodology called «infrastructural reading», the author shows how a focus on the infrastructural networks that circulate through colonial fiction are almost always related to some form of anti-imperial resistance that manifests spatially within their literary, narrative and formal elements. This subversive reading strategy - which is applied in turn to writers as varied as H. Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner and John Buchan in South Africa, and Flora Annie Steel, E.M. Forster and Edward Thompson in India - demonstrates that these mostly pro-imperial writings can reveal an array of ideological anxieties, limitations and silences as well as more direct objections to and acts of violent defiance against imperial control and capitalist accumulation «For Davies, infrastructure in colonial fiction persists as a reminder of the economic unevenness inherent within the project of imperialism. Drawing on a range of thinkers (J.A. Hobson, Rosa Luxemburg, Edward Soja, Edward Said, amongst others), he argues that the inequality produced by global imperial capital takes on a distinct, and contradictory, spatial form in the colonies: underdevelopment coexists with development in these spaces as the shanty town is never too far from the developed roads, bridges, railways.» «Davies insists that an infrastructural mode of reading offers the only true record of resistance - a claim grounded in his privileging of a materialist/economic lens. Taking this interplay between real and imagined geographies a step further, he argues that infrastructures in fiction directly shape and organize spaces outside.» «[T]his a theoretically enlightening book that broadens our conceptual understanding of the multiple materialist registers on which infrastructures operate in colonial fiction.» (Niyati Sharma, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Vol. 54, Number 6 2019) Infrastruktur Motiv (DE-588)7847973-3 gnd Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Imperialismus Motiv (DE-588)4299454-8 gnd Kolonialliteratur (DE-588)4210405-1 gnd Kapitalismus Motiv (DE-588)4221315-0 gnd |
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| title | Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 |
| title_auth | Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 |
| title_exact_search | Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 |
| title_full | Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 Tessa Roynon, Elleke Boehmer, Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, Patricia Daley, Aaron Kamugisha, Minkah Makalani, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Stephen Tuck, Dominic Davies |
| title_fullStr | Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 Tessa Roynon, Elleke Boehmer, Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, Patricia Daley, Aaron Kamugisha, Minkah Makalani, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Stephen Tuck, Dominic Davies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 Tessa Roynon, Elleke Boehmer, Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, Patricia Daley, Aaron Kamugisha, Minkah Makalani, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Stephen Tuck, Dominic Davies |
| title_short | Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 |
| title_sort | imperial infrastructure and spatial resistance in colonial literature 1880 1930 |
| topic | Infrastruktur Motiv (DE-588)7847973-3 gnd Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Imperialismus Motiv (DE-588)4299454-8 gnd Kolonialliteratur (DE-588)4210405-1 gnd Kapitalismus Motiv (DE-588)4221315-0 gnd |
| topic_facet | Infrastruktur Motiv Englisch Imperialismus Motiv Kolonialliteratur Kapitalismus Motiv Hochschulschrift |
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