Land & identity : theory, memory, and practice
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Land & identity : theory, memory, and practice
(Spatial practices : an interdisciplinary series in cultural history geography literature, 13)
Rodopi, 2012
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of essays aims to investigate the complex issues surrounding contemporary cultural discourses on land and identity - their production, construction, and reconstruction across a range of different texts and materials. The chapters offer disciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches opening up discussion and new routes for research in a number of interrelated areas such as Countryside vs. City, Diaspora, Landscapes of Memory and Trauma, Migrational Spaces, and Ecology. They represent a number of innovative contemporary responses to how concepts of land intersect and dialogue with notions of identity across and between regions, nations, races, and cultures. Through employing interdisciplinary methods and theories drawn from diverse sources, such as cultural studies, spatial theory, philosophy and literary theory, the chapters chart varied and complex themes of identity formation in relation to spatiality.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Christine Berberich, Neil Campbell & Robert Hudson: Introduction: Framing and Reframing Land and Identity
Land and Identity: Theories and Philosophies
David Crouch: Landscape, Land and Identity: A Performative Consideration
Fran Speed: Nature Qua Identity: Nature, Culture and Relational Integrity
Donna Landry: The Geopolitical Picturesque
Landscapes of Memory: Eschatology, Trauma, and Diaspora
Kirby Farrell: Eschatological Landscape
Jenni Adams: Cities Under a Sky of Mud: Landscapes of Mourning in Holocaust Texts
Moy McCrory: "This Time and Now": Identity and Belonging in the Irish Diaspora: The Irish in Britain and Second-Generational Silence
Literary Landscapes: Urbanism, Ecology and the Rural
Elsa Cavalie: "And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present nor the past": Recovering Identity in A Month in the Country
Monica Germana: Beyond the Gaps: Postmodernist Representations of the Metropolis
Brian Jarvis: "It is always another world": Mapping the Global Imaginary in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition
Alex Lockwood: The Shore is Not a Beach
Christine Berberich & Neil Campbell: Afterword: Lines of Flight: Unframing Land, Unframing Identity - Two Speculations
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