Mobility, spatiality, and resistance in literary and political discourse / Christian Beck, editor.
Beck, Christian, 1979- editor.
2021
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Mobility, spatiality, and resistance in literary and political discourse / Christian Beck, editor.
ISBN
9783030834777 (electronic bk.)
3030834778 (electronic bk.)
9783030834760
303083476X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83477-7
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
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English
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
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10.1007/978-3-030-83477-7 doi
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PN51
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809.93355
Summary
This collection shows how literary spaces contribute to understanding, changing, or challenging notions of mobility and physical spaces of our lived world. This project draws from various disciplinessuch as geography, sociology, political science, gender studies, and poststructuralist thoughtto posit the productive capabilities of literature in examining the politics of movement and spatial transformations. At the same time, this volume shows how literary art offers alternatives to oppressive institutions, practices, and systems of thought. In this way, this book is more than a collection of essays interpreting pieces of literature, it gestures outward to our space and encourages the creation of new spaces that meet the needs and desires of people, not institutions determined to control our movement, actions, ideologies, and thought. This volume outlines, diagrams, and maps the ways in which literature informs resistance, movement, and space. Christian Beck is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Central Florida, USA. He has published on a wide array of topics ranging from medieval English literature to graffiti and hacktivism. He recently published Spatial Resistance: Literary and Digital Challenges to Neoliberalism (2019) and is currently working on his next monograph, The Figure of the Vigilante: Concepts for Political and Social Justice.
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Beck, Christian, 1979- editor.
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Geocriticism and spatial literary studies.
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1: Introduction: Resistance, the Outside, and the Creative Act, Christian Beck
Part I: Mobility and Travel
1: The Chivalrous Nation: Travel and Ideological Exchange in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2: Conjuring Roots in Dystopia: Reconciling Transgenerational Conflict in Nalo Hopkinsons Brown Girl in the Ring and Edwidge Danticats Brother, Im Dying
3: Matriarchal Mobility: Generational Displacement and (En)Gendered Place in Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping
4: Colonial Advertising and Tourism in the Crosscurrents of Empire
5: Mobility and Remapping borders in Palestinian Womens Literature: Narratives of Resistance and Survival
Part II: Backgrounds and Interiors
6: Interiorized Imperialism in Native American and Japanese American World War II Narratives
7: Turning the Earth, Changing the Narrative: Spatial Transformation in Frances E.W. Harpers Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892)
9: Woolf in the Background: Distance as Visual Philosophy, Then and Now
10: Representing the Slum in African Literatures: The Contingency of Political Possibility
Part III: Radical Positions
11: A New Cartographer: Rabih Alameddine and An Unnecessary Woman
12: Spaces of Resistance in Thomas Pynchons Later Novels
13: Trans(it) Spaces and Intimacy: A Literary Analysis of Chicus Soliloquy
14: A Spring of Pure Possibility: Harlem, Palestine, and Chester Himess Literature of Combat
15: Counter-narratives of Inevitability: Anti-capitalism and the Near Future in Mohsin Hamids Exit West and Louise Erdrichs The Future Home of the Living God.

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