Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Transnational landscapes and postmodern poetics : mapping culture, literature, and politics / edited by Samira Mechri and Asma Hichri
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017

Copies

Description 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) : illustrations
Contents Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Imaginative Topography and Imagined Communities -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Part II: Post-modern Mappings -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Part III: Literary Routes -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Bibliography -- Contributors
Summary This book moves beyond conventional conceptions of space and place to explore how the spatial imagination has informed our postmodern mapping of literature, culture, history, geography and politics. In this volume, scholars from different academic fields contest new territories for critical expression, venturing into a geocritical discussion of notions of identity, borders, territory, cognitive geographies, glocal cultural mobility, gendered spaces, (post)colonial cartographies, and spaces of resistance. These brilliant discussions of the postmodern dialectics of space and place invite a reappr
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 9, 2017)
Subject Space in literature.
Geocriticism.
Society & social sciences.
Political science & theory.
Cultural studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Geocriticism.
Space in literature.
Form Electronic book
Author Mechri, Samira, editor
Hichri, Asma, editor
ISBN 9781527505063
1527505065