Contemporary writing and the politics of space : borders, networks, escape lines / David Walton and Juan A. Suárez (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walton, David, 1955- editor.

Suárez, Juan Antonio, editor.

Series:

Cultural history and literary imagination ; 1660-6205 v. 26.

Cultural history and literary imagination, 1660-6205 ; vol. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Space in literature.

Politics and literature.

Boundaries in literature.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 288 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Borders, networks, escape lines

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2017]

Summary:

This collective volume explores the 'spatial turn' in literary and cultural studies and brings together studies of contemporary English-speaking literature that apply spatial theory to the analysis of literary texts. Themes include abjection, espionage, discipline, post-human identities, urban geographies, dystopia and coercive medical practices.

Contents:

Writing and the Politics of Space: An Introduction (Juan Antonio Suárez / David Walton)

Part I: Borders

1. Coercive Hospital Spaces in Pat Barker's The Regeneration Trilogy (David Griffiths)

2. Metropolitan Isolation in Dystopian Literature (Ángel Galdón Rodríguez)

3. The Island Space in Film Adaptations of The Tempest: On the Invisibility of Borders (María Luisa Pascual Garrido)

4. The House: Friend or Foe? Buildings, Dwellings and Home in Fiction (Clara Pallejá-López)

5. Thresholds of Abjection: Identity and Space in Tennessee Williams's Fiction (Laura Torres-Zúñiga)

Part II: Networks

6. Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day: Sociopolitical Suspicion and Double Spaces of Espionage (Ana Rull Suárez)

7. 'Perfect Cities, Permanent Hells': The Ideological Coordinates of Urban Space in Postmodern Science Fiction (Ángel Mateos-Aparicio Martín-Albo)

8. They Aren't the Big Bad Communists We Were Raised to Think They Were? The Representation of Russia in Contemporary Crime Fiction and Thrillers (Isabel Santaularia i Capdevila)

9. Charting the Liminal Geographies of Eastern Europe in Joyce Carol Oates's Short Stories (Martyna Bryla)

Part III: Escape Lines

10. Bound and Unbound: Figurations of Time-Space in African American Authorship (A. Robert Lee)

11. Reconfiguring the Epic Space in Anne Waldman's The Iovis Trilogy (Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo)

12. The Literary Geography of a Border Zone: The Canary Island in Ewing Campbell's Afoot in the Garden of Enchantments (Tomás Monterrey).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783034322058

9781787076334

1787076334

3034322054

OCLC:

1001966823

Publisher Number:

99975059462