Mobility, Spatiality, and Resistance in Literary and Political Discourse 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030834777, 3030834778

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• ISBN-10:  3030834778
• ISBN-13: 9783030834777
• Author: Christian Beck

Mobility, Space, and Resistance: Transformative Spatiality in Literary and Political Discourse draws from various disciplines—such as geography, sociology, political science, gender studies, and poststructuralist thought—to posit the productive capabilities of literature in political action and at the same time show how literary art can resist the imposition and domination of oppressive systems of our spatial lives. The various approaches, topics, and types of literature discussed in this volume display a concern for social issues that can be addressed in and through literature. The essays address social injustice, oppression, discrimination, and their spatial representations. While offering interpretations of literature, this collection seeks to show how literary spaces contribute to understanding, changing, or challenging physical spaces of our lived world.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Movement, Space, and Power in the Creative Act

Part I. Mobility

2. Colonial Advertising and Tourism in the Crosscurrents of Empire

3. The Chivalrous Nation: Travel and Ideological Exchange in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

4. Conjuring Roots in Dystopia: Reconciling Transgenerational Conflict and Dislocation Through Ancestral Speakers in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring and Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying

5. Mobility, Incarceration, and the Politics of Resistance in Palestinian Women’s Literature

6. Matriarchal Mobility: Generational Displacement and Gendered Place in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping

Part II. Spatiality

7. Interiorized Imperialism in Native American and Japanese American World War II Narratives

8. Turning the Earth, Changing the Narrative: Spatial Transformation in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy; or, Shadows Uplifted (1892)

9. Woolf in the Background: Distance as Visual Philosophy, Then and Now

Part III. Radical Positions

10. A New Cartographer: Rabih Alameddine and An Unnecessary Woman

11. Vulnerable Erotic Encounters: A Chronotopic Reading of the Bus-Space in Chicu’s Soliloquy

12. Anti-capitalism and the Near Future: In Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Louise Erdrich’s The Future Home of the Living God

13. Frantz Fanon, Chester Himes, and a “Literature of Combat”

Part IV. Conclusion

14. Resisting a Wilting Society: To Blossom

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