Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces: Colonial Borders in French and Francophone Literature and Film by Mohit Chandna (review)

Abstract

examines the consequences of spatial production under European colonialism, and how spaces of colonialism have produced colonial and postcolonial subjectivities. The spatial legacies of colonization play themselves out to this day, whether as forms of postcolonial nationalism, or in the colonially inflected socio-spatial divisions of metropolitan France. The book’s strengths lie in its concerted effort to read the impact of colo-nialism in spatial terms, and its exploration of how the subjectivities produced by colonialism are located within and respond to specific spatial configurations. Chandna’s account begins with