Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place

✍ Scribed by Eric Prieto (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 243
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Using contemporary literary representations of place, this study focuses on works that have participated in the emergence of new conceptions of place and new place-based identities. The analyses draw on research in cultural geography, cognitive science, urban sociology, and globalization studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Place, Subjectivity, and the Humanist Tradition....Pages 17-36
Samuel Beckett and the Postmodern Loss of Place....Pages 37-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Poststructuralism and the Resistance to Place....Pages 75-106
Beur Fiction and the Banlieue Crisis....Pages 107-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Place after Postcolonial Studies....Pages 139-152
Evolution in/of the Caribbean Landscape Narrative....Pages 153-186
Conclusion....Pages 187-200
Back Matter....Pages 201-235

✦ Subjects

Twentieth-Century Literature;Postcolonial/World Literature;Literary Theory;North American Literature;European Literature;Poetry and Poetics

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