Summary
Contents
Subject index
Geographies of Postcolonialism introduces the principal themes and theories relating to postcolonialism. Written from a geographical perspective, the text includes extended explanations of the cultural and material aspects of the subject. Exploring postcolonialism through the geographies of imagination, knowledge, and power, the text is split into three comprehensive sections: Colonialisms, Neo-colonialisms, and Postcolonialisms.
Landscapes of Power
Landscapes of Power
The Indian or native city is situated often at a considerable distance from the European civil lines and military cantonments, in one or the other of which the Europeans live. [It] is usually walled. The houses are closely packed together, the streets being very narrow … Even the main street, in which the chief business is transacted, will hardly allow of one cart passing another. The houses are high and most picturesque, though very dirty. The bazaar is a feast of colour. The booth-like open shops filled with many-hued wares, gay silks and cottons, and piles of luscious fruits, with the brilliantly coloured garments of the passers-by and of the loungers (for in the East there is no hurry), make ...
- Loading...