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Mobility, spatiality, and resistance in literary and political discourse

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Unknown Beck, Christian Springer International Publishing (Cham, Switzerland , 2021) (eng) English 9783030834777 Geocriticism and spatial literary studies 1st ed. POLITICAL SCIENCE; Unknown 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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1 online resource (xvii, 320 p.) Unknown ill.
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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 Hopkinsons Brown Girl in the Ring and Edwidge Danticats Brother, Im Dying
3: Matriarchal Mobility: Generational Displacement and (En)Gendered Place in Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping
4: Colonial Advertising and Tourism in the Crosscurrents of Empire
5: Mobility and Remapping borders in Palestinian Womens 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. Harpers 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 Pynchons Later Novels
13: Trans(it) Spaces and Intimacy: A Literary Analysis of Chicus Soliloquy
14: A Spring of Pure Possibility: Harlem, Palestine, and Chester Himess Literature of Combat
15: Counter-narratives of Inevitability: Anti-capitalism and the Near Future in Mohsin Hamids Exit West and Louise Erdrichs The Future Home of the Living God

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