Mobility, Spatiality, and Resistance in Literary and Political Discourse
Published on 11. November 2021
XVII, 320 pages
978-3-030-83477-7 (ISBN)
Description
Mobility, Space, and Resistance: Transformative Spatiality in Literary and Political Discourse
draws from various disciplines-such as geography, sociology, political science, gender studies, and poststructuralist thought-to posit the productive capabilities of literature in political action and at the same time show how literary art can resist the imposition and domination of oppressive systems of our spatial lives. The various approaches, topics, and types of literature discussed in this volume display a concern for social issues that can be addressed in and through literature. The essays address social injustice, oppression, discrimination, and their spatial representations. While offering interpretations of literature, this collection seeks to show how literary spaces contribute to understanding, changing, or challenging physical spaces of our lived world.
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Edition
1st ed. 2021
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XVII, 320 p. 4 illus.
File size
3,87 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-030-83477-7 (9783030834777)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-83477-7
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Palgrave Macmillan
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Christian Beck is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Central Florida, USA. He has published on a wide array of topics ranging from medieval English literature to graffiti and hacktivism. He recently published Spatial Resistance: Literary and Digital Challenges to Neoliberalism (2019) and is currently working on his next monograph, The Figure of the Vigilante: Concepts for Political and Social Justice .
Content
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
.
