Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures
Crossings, Transgressions, and Transitions
1st Edition
Published on 12. May 2026
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-1-041-13692-7 (ISBN)
Description
Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures focuses on how spatiality has been used as a theme, motif, metaphor, and constitutive and interpretive device in anglophone literatures written after the year 2000.
Drawing on selected spatial approaches and practices, the book examines diverse kinds of spatial organisations, practices, and relationships as depicted in selected recent fiction and non-fiction written in English, and the roles they assume in reflecting the larger social, cultural, geopolitical, and environmental circumstances of the current world, with a particular focus on transitional, transgressive, and transformative phenomena that determine the perception and conception of our lived environment. It also demonstrates the ways in which the applied theoretical and critical instruments prove appropriate and viable for a meaningful analysis of contemporary anglophone literatures' treatment of space, and how they attest to the changing role of spatial tropes and spatiality in these narratives.
This volume will be of interest to academics and students of contemporary literatures written in English and spatial literary studies, literary theory, and criticism.
Drawing on selected spatial approaches and practices, the book examines diverse kinds of spatial organisations, practices, and relationships as depicted in selected recent fiction and non-fiction written in English, and the roles they assume in reflecting the larger social, cultural, geopolitical, and environmental circumstances of the current world, with a particular focus on transitional, transgressive, and transformative phenomena that determine the perception and conception of our lived environment. It also demonstrates the ways in which the applied theoretical and critical instruments prove appropriate and viable for a meaningful analysis of contemporary anglophone literatures' treatment of space, and how they attest to the changing role of spatial tropes and spatiality in these narratives.
This volume will be of interest to academics and students of contemporary literatures written in English and spatial literary studies, literary theory, and criticism.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic and Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-041-13692-7 (9781041136927)
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Petr Chalupsky | Tereza Topolovska
Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures
Crossings, Transgressions, and Transitions
E-Book
05/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€56.49
Available for download
Petr Chalupsky | Tereza Topolovska
Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures
Crossings, Transgressions, and Transitions
E-Book
05/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€56.49
Available for download
Persons
Petr Chalupsky is an associate professor and head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Charles University, Czech Republic.
Tereza Topolovska is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Charles University, Czech Republic, where she teaches courses on English, British and American Literature, Literary Studies, and Postcolonial Literature.
Tereza Topolovska is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Charles University, Czech Republic, where she teaches courses on English, British and American Literature, Literary Studies, and Postcolonial Literature.
Content
Introduction: The Spatiality of Crossings, Transgressions, and Transitions - PETR CHALUPSKY AND TEREZA TOPOLOVSKA; Part I - Borders and Border Territories; 1. The Symbolisation of Space and Border Crossing in Western Culture and Its Representation in Anglophone Literature - SUSANA ONEGA; 2. Border Imagery in M. G. Sanchez's Literary Cartography of Gibraltar: Rock Black and Jonathan Gallardo - TIJANA PAREZANOVIC; 3. Seascapes, Strands, and Ecocritical Awareness in Jean Sprackland's Strands. A Year of Discoveries on the Beach - IMKE LICHTERFELD; Part II - Cityscapes in Transformation; 4. Ivan Vladislavic's Aesthetics of Spatiality in Portrait With Keys and The Near North - EWALD MENGEL; 5. Writing the City: Reclaiming Space and Identity in David Dabydeen's Our Lady of Demerara - CRISTINA BENICCHI; 6. Place, Spatiality, and Textuality in the Hyperrealist Vision of the City in Peter Ackroyd's The Lambs of London - MARIA JESUS PEREA VILLENA; Part III - Placelessness and Belonging in the Postcolony; 7. Following Your Homing Desire: Domesticated Spaces, Uncanny Spaces, and the Sense of Belonging in Hafsa Zayyan's We Are All Birds of Uganda - JOANNA ANTONIAK; 8. Negotiating Black British Identities through Place Attachment and Thirdspaces in Caleb Azumah Nelson's Small Worlds - GIZEM DOGRUL; 9. Nonplaces and Crime in David Heska Wanbli Weiden's Winter Counts - SARKA BUBIKOVA; Part IV - Conceptual Geographies; 10. The Metamodernist Abyss in China Mieville's Kraken and This Census-Taker - EWA RYCHTER; 11. Spatial Anxieties: The Re-visioning of the Agoraphobic Woman in Chelsea G. Summers' A Certain Hunger - ZUZANNA SZATANIK; 12. Reimagining Space: Spatial and Emotional Geographies in Tracy Chevalier's New Boy - IVONA MISTEROVA; Conclusion: Towards the Shifting (Re)configurations of Representational Spatiality - PETR CHALUPSKY AND TEREZA TOPOLOVSKA; Index