Mobility, Spatiality, and Resistance in Literary and Political Discourse
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Mobility, Spatiality, and Resistance in Literary and Political Discourse
ISBN:
9783030834777
Edition:
1st ed. 2021.
Yayın Bilgileri:
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
XVII, 320 p. 4 illus. online resource.
Series:
Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,
Contents:
1: Introduction: Resistance, the Outside, and the Creative Act, Christian Beck -- Part I: Mobility and Travel -- 1: The Chivalrous Nation: Travel and Ideological Exchange in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- 2: Conjuring Roots in Dystopia: Reconciling Transgenerational Conflict in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring and Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying -- 3: Matriarchal Mobility: Generational Displacement and (En)Gendered Place in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping -- 4: Colonial Advertising and Tourism in the Crosscurrents of Empire -- 5: Mobility and Remapping borders in Palestinian Women's Literature: Narratives of Resistance and Survival -- Part II: Backgrounds and Interiors -- 6: Interiorized Imperialism in Native American and Japanese American World War II Narratives -- 7: Turning the Earth, Changing the Narrative: Spatial Transformation in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892) -- 9: Woolf in the Background: Distance as Visual Philosophy, Then and Now -- 10: Representing the Slum in African Literatures: The Contingency of Political Possibility -- Part III: Radical Positions -- 11: A New Cartographer: Rabih Alameddine and An Unnecessary Woman -- 12: Spaces of Resistance in Thomas Pynchon's Later Novels -- 13: Trans(it) Spaces and Intimacy: A Literary Analysis of Chicu's Soliloquy -- 14: "A Spring of Pure Possibility": Harlem, Palestine, and Chester Himes's "Literature of Combat" -- 15: Counter-narratives of Inevitability: Anti-capitalism and the Near Future in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West and Louise Erdrich's The Future Home of the Living God.
Abstract:
This collection shows how literary spaces contribute to understanding, changing, or challenging notions of mobility and physical spaces of our lived world. This project draws from various disciplines-such as geography, sociology, political science, gender studies, and poststructuralist thought-to posit the productive capabilities of literature in examining the politics of movement and spatial transformations. At the same time, this volume shows how literary art offers alternatives to oppressive institutions, practices, and systems of thought. In this way, this book is more than a collection of essays interpreting pieces of literature, it gestures outward to our space and encourages the creation of new spaces that meet the needs and desires of people, not institutions determined to control our movement, actions, ideologies, and thought. This volume outlines, diagrams, and maps the ways in which literature informs resistance, movement, and space. Christian Beck is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Central Florida, USA. He has published on a wide array of topics ranging from medieval English literature to graffiti and hacktivism. He recently published Spatial Resistance: Literary and Digital Challenges to Neoliberalism (2019) and is currently working on his next monograph, The Figure of the Vigilante: Concepts for Political and Social Justice.
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English