Volume 15, Issue 21 , October 2019, , Pages 255-272
Abstract
One of the most important concerns of postcolonial studies and colonial discourse analysis is, doubtless, geographical imperialism whether imaginative or worldly. In interdisciplinary fields, the relationship between postcolonial studies and geography or space has set an arena for showing the conflict ...
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One of the most important concerns of postcolonial studies and colonial discourse analysis is, doubtless, geographical imperialism whether imaginative or worldly. In interdisciplinary fields, the relationship between postcolonial studies and geography or space has set an arena for showing the conflict on geography that is sometimes even more important than actual wars. Thus the critic or intellectual should shoulder the responsibility of uncovering the bonds between literary texts and geographical politics. Literary space here could be the most important element to connect the imaginary world of literature to the worldly realities. Space could be studied at different levels and on different layers of the text. This study is an attempt to excavate the space of the Marabar Caves in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India and informs the air of Orientalist uncertainty in the novel in light of Edward Said’s Orientalism. This reveals the connection between the text under study and the ones preceding it to reveal the social, cultural and political contexts. The present study concludes that Forster merely shows sympathy towards the natives and falls short of a maturity to awaken him for a native unity to resist the British colonialists.
Volume 14, Issue 19 , October 2018, , Pages 297-316
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The recent experimental spatial turn in geography has developed a plethora of interdisciplinary theories of space. Concerning this turn, studying space, which had previously been subordinated to the study of time in narrative, necessitates the examination of space in the context of poststructuralist ...
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The recent experimental spatial turn in geography has developed a plethora of interdisciplinary theories of space. Concerning this turn, studying space, which had previously been subordinated to the study of time in narrative, necessitates the examination of space in the context of poststructuralist narratology rather than classical narratology. The reconstruction of the structure of space in the temporal continuum of the textual language is limited and depicted in the mind of the reader in association with his or her spatial experiments. Regarding the few Persian studies about place, space, and literary geography, there is no examination of the effects of the experimental spatial turn in the structure of space in narrative. The present research in narratology, whilst comparing the proposed spatial terms of the structuralist and poststructuralist studies, attempts to shed light on the importance of the character and reader in the overall structure of the space that has been influenced by the suggested experimental turn.