Literature, geography, and the postmodern poetics of place
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Eric Prieto.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2013
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(235 pages)
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern -- 21st century -- History and criticism.