Cover
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Series
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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Spaces of the Text: Literary Studies After the Spatial Turn
Part I Geocritical Theory and Practice
1 Geocriticism at the Crossroads: An Overview
2 How to Do Narratives With Maps: Cartography as a Performative Act in Gulliver’s Travels and Through the Looking-Glass
3 Beyond Binaries and Metaphor: The Counterhegemonic Possibilities of Place
Part II Geographies of the Text
4 Mallarmé, Poet of the Earthly World: On Spatiality in L’Après-midi d’un Faune
5 Zola’s Spatial Explorations of Second Empire Paris
6 “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”: The Demonic Grounds of M. NourbeSe Philip’s Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence
7 Rethinking the Beginning: Toni Morrison and the Dramatization of Liminality
8 “You’ve been here before?”: Space and Memory in Stephen Poliakoff’s Dramas
Part III Geography in the Text
9 Caves as Anti-Places: Robert Penn Warren’s The Cave and Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God
10 A Geocritical Approach to the Role of the Desert in Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger and Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient
11 Isolated Spaces, Fragmented Places: Caryl Phillips’s Ghettos in The Nature of Blood and The European Tribe
12 The Eternal Return and the Country/City Dynamic in Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being
13 Transgression, Boundaries, and Power: Rethinking the Space of Postcolonial Literature
Part IV The Problematics of Place
14 “Oh, man, I’m nowhere”: Ralph Ellison and the Psychospatial Terrain of Mid-Century Harlem
15 Covington Is the Non-Place for Me: Walker Percy’s Topophilia in the Deserts of Theory and Consumption
16 Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window: Cold War, Spatiality, and the Paranoid Subject
17 Locating the Clearing: Contested Boundaries in Beloved and Song of Solomon
18 Remapping the Present: Dave Eggers’s Spatial Virtuality and the Condition of Literature
Part V Plus Ultra
19 Spatial Literary Studies Versus Literary Geography?: Boundaries and Borders Amidst Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space and Literature
Notes on Contributors
Index