TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chandna,Mohit
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces : : Colonial Borders in French and Francophone Literature and Film / 
SN  - 9789461663832
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Leuven (Belgium)
PB  - Leuven University Press
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - fast
KW  - French literature
KW  - Colonies in motion pictures
KW  - Colonies in literature
KW  - Boundaries in motion pictures
KW  - Boundaries in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - French
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Frontieres au cinema
KW  - Frontieres dans la litterature
KW  - Colonies au cinema
KW  - Colonies dans la litterature
KW  - Cinema
KW  - France
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Litterature française
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Colonialism advanced its project of territorial expansion by changing the very meaning of borders and space. The colonial project scripted a unipolar spatial discourse that saw the colonies as an extension of European borders. In his monograph, Mohit Chandna engages with narrations of spatial conflicts in French and Francophone literature and film from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. In literary works by Jules Verne, Ananda Devi, and Patrick Chamoiseau, and film by Michael Haneke, Chandna analyzes the depiction of ever-changing borders and spatial grammar within the colonial project. In so doing, he also examines the ongoing resistance to the spatial legacies of colonial practices that act as omnipresent enforcers of colonial borders. Literature and film become sites that register colonial spatial paradigms and advance competing narratives that fracture the dominance of these borders.0Through its analyses 'Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces' shows that colonialism is not a finished project relegated to our past. Colonialism is present in the here and now, and exercises its power through the borders that define us
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/85556/
ER  -