With essays from a range of geographies and bringing together influential scholars across a range of disciplines, this book focuses on the role of space in the study of the politics of contemporary postcolonial experience, engaging with the spectrum of postcolonial spatialities which play a significant role in defining global postcolonial culture.

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Introduction
1 English somewheres: Caryl Phillips and the English North
2 A few words about the role of the Cartographers: Mapping and postcolonial resistance in Peter Carey’s ‘Do You Love Me?’
3 ‘How does your garden grow?’ or Jamaica Kincaid’s spatial praxis in My Garden (Book): and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya
4 Gender and space in postcolonial fiction: South Asian novelists re-imagining women’s spatial boundaries
5 From hijab to sweatshops: Segregated bodies and contested space in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
6 Overlapping space and the negotiation of cultural identity: Children’s literature from the South Asian diaspora
7 Owning the city: Screening postcolonial Bombay in Milan Luthria’s Taxi 9 2 11: Nau Do Gyarah
8 Postcolonial purgatory: The space of migrancy in Dirty Pretty Things
9 Third space, abstract space and coloniality: National and subaltern cartography in Ecuador
10 Security, territory, and colonial populations: Town and empire in Foucault’s 1978 lecture course
11 The geography of theory: Knowledge, politics and the postcolonial present
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