Mobility, Spatiality, and Resistance in Literary and Political Discourse
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| Zusammenfassung: | XVII, 320 p. 4 illus. text |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,
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| Online-Zugang: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83477-7 |
| Format: | Elektronisch Buch |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.