Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies)

✍ Scribed by Kathryn Everly (editor), Stefano Giannini (editor), Karina von Tippelskirch (editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts analyzes the impact migrations, both internal and external, have on Europe’s literary and visual representations in the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The volume aims to subvert a centripetal reading of European cultural production by including peripheral thinkers, writers, and visual artists operating in transcultural contexts. The essays highlight and investigate the fertile artistic discourses generated in the spatial peripheries outside of Europe or its inner peripheries. The volume addresses the need for geocritical readings that overcome the engrained dichotomy of centers-peripheries. By doing so, the book brings a more nuanced approach to national literatures and proposes the idea of “contact zones of imaginative interaction”.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction: Centers-Peripheries; Literary, Cinematic, and Artistic Spaces
References
Artistic Practices at the Border: Waiting and Crossing in the Context of Escape and Exile
Waiting in Extreme Situations: Camp Gurs at the French-Spanish Border
Artistic Practices on/with Borders: Francis Alÿs’s Works Beyond Boundaries
Thinking of Borders Through Space and Time
References
Revolutionary Peripheries: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Cinema of Borgata”
The Roman Borgate and Cinema
A Subversive Death in La Ricotta
References
Inner Periphery? The Rhine from  Borderland to Interzone
Site Methods
Borders Dead and Alive
Hugo’s Fraught Phantoms
Rhine Mine
Being Border
References
Enrico Pea and the Awareness of Never-Ending Detachment (Alexandria, Egypt 1896–1914)
A Soon-to-Be Writer Arrives in Alexandria
A Unique Periphery
The Crisis of Modernity
A Fragment of the Italian Diaspora
The Multi-ethnic City
Pea’s Baracca Rossa at the Center of the Periphery
Religion, Politics, and Social Justice
Memory for Understanding a City
Sun and Sea Always Accompany the Exile
References
From Mexico to Madrid: Thirdspace in Concha Méndez’s Poemas: Sombras y sueños
Places and Spaces of Exile
People and Personification
References
Toward the Periphery of Europe: Erich Maria Remarque’s Novel The Night in Lisbon
Transit Places
Crossing Borders: Transgressions and Transformations
Toward the Periphery
References
Najat El Hachmi: Away from Patriarchy, Hijab, and Cultural Relativism
References
Doctor Möbius, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Line
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Index