Naming No Man’s Land
Postcolonial Toponymies
Palgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN 978-3-031-60690-8
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2025
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Umfang: xix, 251 S.
Format (B x L): 15,5 x 23,5 cm
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN: 978-3-031-60690-8
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Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
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Recognising the ‘sense of place’ values that accrue to placenames, Carter argues that placenames have a creative as well as discursive function: they are talking points that bring places into being. For this reason, to decolonize toponymy involves a postcolonial poetics. Naming No Man’s Land argues for a practical, community-shaped toponymic poetics that escapes from the binarist logic of imposition/erasure, showing that, when the principle that ‘places are made after their stories’ is followed, new creative mechanisms of co-existence can emerge. A must read for anyone engaged in postcolonial studies, creativity studies, cultural geography, sociolinguistics, historical ethnography, eco-criticism, environmental humanities, (Australian) Aboriginal studies, and related disciplines.
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