Rethinking Place through Literary Form Rupsa Banerjee

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• ISBN 10:3030964949
• ISBN 13:9783030964948
• Author: Rupsa Banerjee, Nathaniel Cadle

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 contents:

1. Introduction: The Interconnectedness of Place and Literary Form
Part 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
3. Island of Words: The De-Realization of Place in the Writings of George Mackay Brown
4. Locating Statelessness: The Multiple Forms of Anarchist Utopia in B. Traven’s The Death Ship
Part II. The Influence of Place on Form: Neighbourhoods, Homes and Remakings of Form
5. “Earthquakes or Earthmovers”: Place Memory and Literary Counterspace in Helena María Viramontes’ Their Dogs Came with Them
6. “A House with Many Rooms”: Transformed Homes in Dinaw Mengestu’s All Our Names
Part 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
8. De-Provincializing Liolà: Pirandello, Futurism, and the Dialectics of Revision in Gramsci’s Cultural Writings
9. “And No One Talks of National Rebirth”: Liberal Humanist Interventionism in the Post-Imperial Space of D.J. Enright’s Poetry
Part 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
11. The Invisible City of the Creole Caribbean Takes Shape: A Discourse Between Italo Calvino and Édouard Glissant
12. Locating the World in the Prose Poems of Peter Riley

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