Spaces of Longing and Belonging : Territoriality, Ideology and Creative Identity in Literature and Film / edited by Brigitte Le Juez and Bill Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Juez, Brigitte le, author.

Contributor:

Richardson, Bill, editor.

Series:

Spatial Practices ; 30.

Spatial Practices; v.30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time in literature.

Space and time in motion pictures.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2019.

Summary:

Spaces of Longing and Belonging offers the reader theoretical and interpretative studies of spatiality centered on a variety of literary and cultural contexts. It brings new and complementary insights to bear on creative uses of spatiality in artistic texts and generally into the field of spatiality as a cultural phenomenon, especially, although not exclusively, in terms of literary space. Ranging over questions of aesthetics, politics, sociohistorical concerns, issues of postcoloniality, transculturality, ecology and features of interpersonal spaces, among others, the essays provide a considerable collection of innovative pieces of scholarship on important questions relating to literary spatiality generally, as well as detailed analyses of particular works and authors. The volume includes ground-breaking theoretical investigations of crucial dimensions of spatiality in a context of increased global awareness.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Epigraph

Notes on Contributors

Introduction / Brigitte Le Juez and Bill Richardson

Belonging to the Periphery of the Planet / Bertrand Westphal

In-between Territories

Home/Land: Diasporic Space and Topologies of Relation in Nimrod’s L’Or des rivières (2010) / Polo B. Moji

Poetics of the Shipping Forecast / Sanna Nyqvist

“That Other Unreality”: Place, Non-Place and the Fantastic in Julio Cortázar’s “La isla a mediodía” (1966) / Ivan Kenny

Longing and Belonging in Contemporary Finland-Swedish Literature / Kaisa Kurikka , Hanna Lahdenperä , Kristina Malmio and Julia Tidigs

The Longing of Lafcadio Hearn for His Own Japan / Rodger Williamson

Ideological Sites of Belonging

Spatial Patterns in Literary Fiction: the Case of Delibes’s The Holy Innocents / Bill Richardson

Romantic Poets and the Legend of the Haunted Cave of Hercules / Pilar Vega Rodríguez

Longing and Belonging: Space, Time and Intertextuality in the Post-Colonial Theatre of Wole Soyinka / Rosa Branca Figueiredo

Race and Post-9/11 Arab-American Identity: Contestatory Agency in the Poetic Discourse of Suheir Hammad and Andrea Assaf / Omar Baz Radwan

Space, Affect and Identity

Remaking Creativity: H Story, Nobuhiro Suwa’s Transposition of Hiroshima Mon Amour / Brigitte Le Juez

Signifying the Nation: (In)Communication, Absence and National (Be)Longing in Marc Evans’s Patagonia (2010) / Jennifer Wood

The Outcasts of the Universe: Longing and Belonging in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s and Edgar Allan Poe’s London Tales / Andrea Chiurato

Place and the Representation of the Self: Milan Kundera’s Prague and Gu Hua’s Hibiscus Town / Gabriel F.Y. Tsang

Speaking the Past: Place as Inspiration and Nostalgia in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories and the City and Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography / Aytül Özüm

Back Matter

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-40293-4

OCLC:

1096236107

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004402935 DOI