Rethinking place through literary form
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Rethinking place through literary form
（Geocriticism and spatial literary studies）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Rethinking Place Through Literary Form regards the relationship between place and linguistic form as challenging real and perceived configurations of place and renegotiating geopolitically determined categories of the 'centre' and 'periphery'. The volume argues that the rise of scattered communities, displaced physically and psychologically by urban and alienated geographies, necessitates linguistic negotiations of one's locatedness in place as the chief means of uncovering and re-building identity. By looking at narrative re-imaginings of forgotten and interrupted intimacies between habitation and place from diverse parts of the world, the twelve chapters address the growing need to expand and alter approaches to literary representations of modernity and modes of self-location.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction: The Interconnectedness of Place and Literary Form Rupsa Banerjee and Nathaniel CadlePart I The Influence of Place on Form: Literary Form and the Displacement of Locales 2 Othered Places and the Bengali Leftist Female Bildungsroman: Sulekha Sanyal's Nabankur and the Pre-Independence Communist Everyday Nandini Dhar3 Island of Words: The De-Realization of Place in the Writings of George Mackay Brown Nigel Wheale4 Locating Statelessness: The Multiple Forms of Anarchist Utopia in B. Traven's The Death Ship Nathaniel CadlePart II The Influence of Place on Form: Neighbourhoods,Homes and Remakings of Form 5 "Earthquakes or Earthmovers": Place Memory and Literary Counterspace in Helena Maria Viramontes'Their Dogs Came with Them Cristina M. Rodriguez6 "A House with Many Rooms": Transformed Homes in Dinaw Mengestu's All Our Names Laura Savu WalkerPart III Formal Reconfigurations of Place: Regions, Nations,and Formal (Dis)junctions 7 "Her Strong Roots Sink Down": Displacement,Migration, and Form in Jean Toomer's Cane David Sugarman8 De-Provincializing Liola: Pirandello, Futurism, and the Dialectics of Revision in Gramsci's Cultural Writings Jennifer Somie Kang9 "And No One Talks of National Rebirth": Liberal Humanist Interventionism in the Post-Imperial Space of D.J. Enright's Poetry Aaron DevesonPart IV Formal Reconfigurations of Place: Discursive Cities and Transitory Worlds 10 "No New Newark": Rewriting Place through the Failed Form of Family Romance in Philip Roth's The Anatomy Lesson Iven L. HeisterContents xvii11 The Invisible City of the Creole Caribbean Takes Shape:A Discourse Between Italo Calvino and Edouard Glissant Allyson Ferrante12 Locating the World in the Prose Poems of Peter Riley Rupsa Banerjee
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