This article reads Peter Carey’s novel Jack Maggs (1997) through a focus on mapping and mobility. Following John Thieme’s recent attention to postcolonial literary geographies, the article argues that ideas of mapping in the text move away from fixed notions of place and space in order to disrupt colonial dynamics of control and power. It suggests that Jack Maggs explores the concept of vernacular cartography, in which bodies bear their own maps of trauma and transience. The eponymous Jack Maggs destabilizes the borders of Empire through his mobility, though he in turn faces attempts by other characters to manage and discipline his itinerant body. Similarly, the article considers how Peter Carey’s fictional mobility – his engagement w...
This article argues that despite apparently being the most ‘national’ of his novels, Bleak House is ...
There is no home in this world for colonising peoples, but the desire for a place or a state to call...
My dissertation investigates an unexamined issue in literary studies---the role of maps in modernist...
Thesis (M.A. (English))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007The formation of identity ...
The article discusses the prominence of London in this 'Australian' novel. It examines the significa...
Homi Bhabha's metophor of space in The Location of Culture and Edward Said's view of the inherent te...
Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs (1997) shows the fascination of Victorian Britain for the occult and its li...
Peter Carey\u27s jack Maggs (1997) is a novel about the creation of the self. In its \u27writing bac...
The ambition of this issue of Portal is to reach across the methodological boundaries of history, po...
This thesis uncovers connections between the mapping of fictional spaces in nineteenth-century liter...
Drawing upon recent interdisciplinary research in the fields of literary geography and critical cart...
Against the theoretical background of the ongoing research on 'antipodean' literautre and culture, t...
Drawing upon recent interdisciplinary research in the fields of literary geography and critical cart...
This article argues that despite apparently being the most ‘national’ of his novels, Bleak House is ...
Reading and Mapping articulates a new approach to the interpretation of literary space and place for...
This article argues that despite apparently being the most ‘national’ of his novels, Bleak House is ...
There is no home in this world for colonising peoples, but the desire for a place or a state to call...
My dissertation investigates an unexamined issue in literary studies---the role of maps in modernist...
Thesis (M.A. (English))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007The formation of identity ...
The article discusses the prominence of London in this 'Australian' novel. It examines the significa...
Homi Bhabha's metophor of space in The Location of Culture and Edward Said's view of the inherent te...
Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs (1997) shows the fascination of Victorian Britain for the occult and its li...
Peter Carey\u27s jack Maggs (1997) is a novel about the creation of the self. In its \u27writing bac...
The ambition of this issue of Portal is to reach across the methodological boundaries of history, po...
This thesis uncovers connections between the mapping of fictional spaces in nineteenth-century liter...
Drawing upon recent interdisciplinary research in the fields of literary geography and critical cart...
Against the theoretical background of the ongoing research on 'antipodean' literautre and culture, t...
Drawing upon recent interdisciplinary research in the fields of literary geography and critical cart...
This article argues that despite apparently being the most ‘national’ of his novels, Bleak House is ...
Reading and Mapping articulates a new approach to the interpretation of literary space and place for...
This article argues that despite apparently being the most ‘national’ of his novels, Bleak House is ...
There is no home in this world for colonising peoples, but the desire for a place or a state to call...
My dissertation investigates an unexamined issue in literary studies---the role of maps in modernist...