Literature, geography, and the postmodern poetics of place / Eric Prieto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prieto, Eric, 1966-

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.

Liminality in literature.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

235 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

"Eric Prieto is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Listening In: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative, and numerous essays on music-and-literature, literary spatiality, Caribbean literature, and literary theory"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book opens up an understudied area within the field of literary spatiality: the question of geographical emergence. A study of contemporary literary representations of place, it draws on phenomenological, poststructural, and postcolonial theories of space and place to show how literature contributes to the formation of new geographical identities. With chapters devoted to the in-between spaces of Samuel Beckett, France's suburban ghettoes, and the postcolonial proto-nations of France's Caribbean territories, this study emphasizes literature's ability to subtly but decisively shape readers' attitudes toward the world around them, making it possible to see such places not as defective or derivative versions of established modes of dwelling but as laboratories for the ways of life of tomorrow"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Phenomenological Place

1 Place, Subjectivity, and the Humanist Tradition 17

2 Samuel Beckett and the Postmodern Loss of Place 37

Part II The Social Production of Place

3 Poststructuralism and the Resistance to Place 75

4 Beur Fiction and the Banlieue Crisis 107

Part III Postcolonial Place

5 Place after Postcolonial Studies 139

6 Evolution in/of the Caribbean Landscape Narrative 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781137031112

1137031115

OCLC:

798615484

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