Time is Money: Spaces of Colonial Desire and Jules Verne

Autor:	Mohit Chandna
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Linguistics and Language History Literature and Literary Theory Grammar Communication media_common.quotation_subject Art history Character (symbol) Art Capitalism Colonialism Witness Language and Linguistics Indigenous Commodity (Marxism) Humanities media_common
Zdroj:	Victoriographies. 3:184-205
ISSN:	2044-2424 2044-2416
Popis:	What Jules Verne charts in his Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours isn't just the itinerary that his famous character Phileas Fogg traverses in his quest to travel around the world in eighty days. Instead, what we witness are the workings of a colonial-capitalist discourse that reduces the entire planet to an easily exchangeable commodity. This paper analyses how Fogg's journey resituates indigenous landscapes according to a colonial grammar. Vernien geography authorises only those fictional spatial and temporal paradigms that are consistent with the colonial project of capitalistic expansion.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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