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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Imaginative geography"”.
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The Orient in the Empire’s Poetry: Scholarship, Translation, and Imaginative Geography (1770-1857)
<p>This dissertation uses the idea of imaginative geography to study literary and scholarly representations of what writers in Europe referred to as the <em>Orient</em> during the long nineteenth century. <em>Imaginative geography</em> refers to a subjective collection of associations that …
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Hollywood's Other America: Neoliberalism, US Hegemony, and the Construction of an Imaginative Geography of the Americas in Contemporary US Film
… Drawing on Edward Said's notion of 'imaginative geographies' I examine the way in which Hollywood representations of Latin America have constructed a spatio-temporal imaginative geography of the Americas that structures US knowledge of Latin America, arguing that these representations …
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Tamazgha in France: Indigeneity and Citizenship in the diasporic Amazigh movement
… and political movements, constructs an imaginative geography of North Africa, which they call Tamazgha, and the implications this has for this emergent and diverse group. It sets out to theorise and understand the political geographies of this diasporic social movement in the …
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Writing Resistance in the Three Punjabs: Critical Engagements with Literary Tradition
… Britain, I show how this corpus constitutes an imaginative geography of an un-Partitioned Punjab by re-working regional oral texts like the Hir qissa, the Bulleh Shah kafi, and the var of Dulla Bhatti. However, this turn to regional roots can by no means be read as a nostalgic paean to a …