Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930
- Submitting institution
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City, University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 8
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.3726/b11015
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Limited
- ISBN
- 9781906165888
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The result of six years’ sustained research and several international research trips to colonial and imperial archives spread across Southern Africa and South Asia, this interdisciplinary monograph (296pp.) is the first expansive study of the relationship between literature, infrastructure, and empire, focusing on largely neglected colonial writers. Organised into four key themes (humanitarianism, segregation, frontiers, and nationalism), the book brings together multiple disciplines including cultural geography, imperial history, literary criticism, and critical infrastructure studies to devise a methodology of ‘infrastructural reading’ that has since been adopted by scholars and applied to literature and culture in other geographic and historical contexts.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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