Literature, geography, and the postmodern poetics of place
[Book]
Eric Prieto.
1st ed
New York
Palgrave Macmillan
2013
(235 pages)
Phenomenological Place --;Place, Subjectivity, and the Humanist Tradition --;Samuel Beckett and the Postmodern Loss of Place --;The Social Production of Place --;Poststructuralism and the Resistance to Place --;Beur Fiction and the Banlieue Crisis --;Postcolonial Place --;Place After Postcolonial Studies --;Evolution in/of the Caribbean Landscape Narrative --;Landscape, Map, and Vertical Integration.
Using contemporary literary representations of place, this study focuses on works that have participated in the emergence of new conceptions of place and new place-based identities. The analyses draw on research in cultural geography, cognitive science, urban sociology, and globalization studies.
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern -- 21st century -- History and criticism.