Spatialities and Colonial <\/span><\/span><\/h1>\nLegacies\/Locations in <\/span><\/span><\/h1>\nPostcolonial Literature, <\/span><\/span><\/h1>\nDeadline 15 February\u00a02016<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\nSpatialities and Colonial Legacies<\/strong><\/span><\/section>\nLocations in Postcolonial Literature<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJournal of Postcolonial Writing<\/span><\/p>\nDeadline 15 February 2016<\/span><\/p>\n![\"IMG_8168Ibadan\"](\"https:\/\/africainwords.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/img_8168ibadan.jpg?w=300&h=216\")
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<\/a>Space has been a central concern of postcolonial studies since the 1978 publication of Said\u2019s\u00a0Orientalism<\/em>\u00a0and its exposition of the \u2018imaginative geographies\u2019 of colonial conquest. As Said, citing Gaston Bachelard\u2019s\u00a0The Poetics of Space<\/em>, writes, \u2018space acquires emotional and even rational sense by a kind of poetic process, whereby the vacant or anonymous reaches of distance are converted into meaning for us here\u2019 (54), indicating the potency of the imperial imaginary in the constitution of a broader conception of space in all of its workings.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDespite this, the spatial turn in postcolonial studies has inadvertently perpetuated what Lefebvre, in\u00a0The Production of Space<\/em>\u00a0(1974), calls the twinned myths of transparency and opacity. Postcolonial inquiries into space have thus viewed spatiality as either metaphorical, following Bhabha\u2019s conception of the \u2018Third Space of enunciation\u2019, or, following Said, as an ontologically-given backdrop to action. In both cases, the text remains a passive repository of alternately abstract and materialist visions of space which do not account for its full, lived complexity. It is precisely this dynamic and often-contradictory model of space which this special issue seeks to foreground, with a specific focus on the role of cultural production, particularly literature, in the production of space. Rather than viewing the literary text in passive terms, this special issue seeks contributions which highlight the ways in which literature is both constitutive of and constituted by the spatial structures of the postcolonial. This issue thus seeks to place space back at the centre of postcolonial inquiry, engaging with contemporary spatial theory (Soja, Lefebvre, Doel, Masssey) in order to interrogate the extent to which the postcolonial is itself an inherently spatial formation.<\/span><\/p>\nRather than encouraging contributions which subscribe to either a materialist or discursive orthodoxy in their conception of space, this issue seeks contributions which explore the production of space at the intersection of the political, aesthetic, economic and cultural. Comparative contributions are especially welcome, as are contributions in which geographers such as Harvey, Soja, Massey and Lefebvre stand alongside postcolonial critics such as Said, Bhabha, Mbembe and Huggan. Possible topics and concerns may include:<\/span><\/p>\n\n- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Comparative spatialities across imperial contexts<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Nation, novel and space<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Creative economies, publishing practices and the performance of space in literature<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Diaspora and space<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Empire, land reform and resource in the production of space<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Urban versus rural spatial structures<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Movement, migration and transformation<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Unofficial, underground and counter-hegemonic spatialities<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Gender and space<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Spatiality and time: history and developmentalism<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Neoliberalism, finance and new imperial spaces<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
All finished manuscripts are expected to conform to the standard\u00a0JPW<\/em>\u00a0guidelines. Abstracts of no more than 500 words are due by\u00a015 February 2016<\/strong>\u00a0and notification of selection will be made by\u00a015March 2016<\/strong>. Final papers are due in February 2017 and will be subject to peer review. The guest editor encourages potential contributors to establish early contact via email to\u00a0madhu.krishnan@bristol.ac.uk<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Madhu Krishnan).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Postcolonial Literature, <\/span><\/span><\/h1>\nDeadline 15 February\u00a02016<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\nSpatialities and Colonial Legacies<\/strong><\/span><\/section>\nLocations in Postcolonial Literature<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJournal of Postcolonial Writing<\/span><\/p>\nDeadline 15 February 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>Space has been a central concern of postcolonial studies since the 1978 publication of Said\u2019s\u00a0Orientalism<\/em>\u00a0and its exposition of the \u2018imaginative geographies\u2019 of colonial conquest. As Said, citing Gaston Bachelard\u2019s\u00a0The Poetics of Space<\/em>, writes, \u2018space acquires emotional and even rational sense by a kind of poetic process, whereby the vacant or anonymous reaches of distance are converted into meaning for us here\u2019 (54), indicating the potency of the imperial imaginary in the constitution of a broader conception of space in all of its workings.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nDespite this, the spatial turn in postcolonial studies has inadvertently perpetuated what Lefebvre, in\u00a0The Production of Space<\/em>\u00a0(1974), calls the twinned myths of transparency and opacity. Postcolonial inquiries into space have thus viewed spatiality as either metaphorical, following Bhabha\u2019s conception of the \u2018Third Space of enunciation\u2019, or, following Said, as an ontologically-given backdrop to action. In both cases, the text remains a passive repository of alternately abstract and materialist visions of space which do not account for its full, lived complexity. It is precisely this dynamic and often-contradictory model of space which this special issue seeks to foreground, with a specific focus on the role of cultural production, particularly literature, in the production of space. Rather than viewing the literary text in passive terms, this special issue seeks contributions which highlight the ways in which literature is both constitutive of and constituted by the spatial structures of the postcolonial. This issue thus seeks to place space back at the centre of postcolonial inquiry, engaging with contemporary spatial theory (Soja, Lefebvre, Doel, Masssey) in order to interrogate the extent to which the postcolonial is itself an inherently spatial formation.<\/span><\/p>\nRather than encouraging contributions which subscribe to either a materialist or discursive orthodoxy in their conception of space, this issue seeks contributions which explore the production of space at the intersection of the political, aesthetic, economic and cultural. Comparative contributions are especially welcome, as are contributions in which geographers such as Harvey, Soja, Massey and Lefebvre stand alongside postcolonial critics such as Said, Bhabha, Mbembe and Huggan. Possible topics and concerns may include:<\/span><\/p>\n\n- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Comparative spatialities across imperial contexts<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Nation, novel and space<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Creative economies, publishing practices and the performance of space in literature<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Diaspora and space<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Empire, land reform and resource in the production of space<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Urban versus rural spatial structures<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Movement, migration and transformation<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Unofficial, underground and counter-hegemonic spatialities<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Gender and space<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Spatiality and time: history and developmentalism<\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Neoliberalism, finance and new imperial spaces<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
All finished manuscripts are expected to conform to the standard\u00a0JPW<\/em>\u00a0guidelines. Abstracts of no more than 500 words are due by\u00a015 February 2016<\/strong>\u00a0and notification of selection will be made by\u00a015March 2016<\/strong>. Final papers are due in February 2017 and will be subject to peer review. The guest editor encourages potential contributors to establish early contact via email to\u00a0madhu.krishnan@bristol.ac.uk<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Madhu Krishnan).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Locations in Postcolonial Literature<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Journal of Postcolonial Writing<\/span><\/p>\n Deadline 15 February 2016<\/span><\/p>\n Despite this, the spatial turn in postcolonial studies has inadvertently perpetuated what Lefebvre, in\u00a0The Production of Space<\/em>\u00a0(1974), calls the twinned myths of transparency and opacity. Postcolonial inquiries into space have thus viewed spatiality as either metaphorical, following Bhabha\u2019s conception of the \u2018Third Space of enunciation\u2019, or, following Said, as an ontologically-given backdrop to action. In both cases, the text remains a passive repository of alternately abstract and materialist visions of space which do not account for its full, lived complexity. It is precisely this dynamic and often-contradictory model of space which this special issue seeks to foreground, with a specific focus on the role of cultural production, particularly literature, in the production of space. Rather than viewing the literary text in passive terms, this special issue seeks contributions which highlight the ways in which literature is both constitutive of and constituted by the spatial structures of the postcolonial. This issue thus seeks to place space back at the centre of postcolonial inquiry, engaging with contemporary spatial theory (Soja, Lefebvre, Doel, Masssey) in order to interrogate the extent to which the postcolonial is itself an inherently spatial formation.<\/span><\/p>\n Rather than encouraging contributions which subscribe to either a materialist or discursive orthodoxy in their conception of space, this issue seeks contributions which explore the production of space at the intersection of the political, aesthetic, economic and cultural. Comparative contributions are especially welcome, as are contributions in which geographers such as Harvey, Soja, Massey and Lefebvre stand alongside postcolonial critics such as Said, Bhabha, Mbembe and Huggan. Possible topics and concerns may include:<\/span><\/p>\n All finished manuscripts are expected to conform to the standard\u00a0JPW<\/em>\u00a0guidelines. Abstracts of no more than 500 words are due by\u00a015 February 2016<\/strong>\u00a0and notification of selection will be made by\u00a015March 2016<\/strong>. Final papers are due in February 2017 and will be subject to peer review. The guest editor encourages potential contributors to establish early contact via email to\u00a0madhu.krishnan@bristol.ac.uk<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Madhu Krishnan).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"IMG_8168Ibadan\"](\"https:\/\/africainwords.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/img_8168ibadan.jpg\")
<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>Space has been a central concern of postcolonial studies since the 1978 publication of Said\u2019s\u00a0Orientalism<\/em>\u00a0and its exposition of the \u2018imaginative geographies\u2019 of colonial conquest. As Said, citing Gaston Bachelard\u2019s\u00a0The Poetics of Space<\/em>, writes, \u2018space acquires emotional and even rational sense by a kind of poetic process, whereby the vacant or anonymous reaches of distance are converted into meaning for us here\u2019 (54), indicating the potency of the imperial imaginary in the constitution of a broader conception of space in all of its workings.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n