LEADER 04474nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910778390303321 005 20230721031805.0 010 $a1-282-26565-2 010 $a9786612265655 010 $a94-012-0500-0 010 $a1-4356-0495-4 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401205009 035 $a(CKB)1000000000479002 035 $a(EBL)556721 035 $a(OCoLC)666984353 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000249213 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12086689 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000249213 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10206686 035 $a(PQKB)10472586 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556721 035 $a(OCoLC)666984353$z(OCoLC)177172997$z(OCoLC)180752519$z(OCoLC)712988650$z(OCoLC)764536368 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401205009 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556721 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380442 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL226565 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000479002 100 $a20071006d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun####uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSpaces of belonging$b[electronic resource] $ehome, culture, and identity in 20th century French autobiography /$fElizabeth H. Jones 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York $cEditions Rodopi$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (317 p.) 225 1 $aSpatial practices ;$v3 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2283-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Introduction -- Space and Literature -- Contemporary Life Writing -- Medico-Cultural Spaces in Hervé Guibert?s AIDS Texts -- Doubrovsky: Autofictional Constructions of Self and Place -- Robin: Lost, Imaginary, Urban and Moving Home Spaces -- Life Writing and Postmodern Cartography -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aQuestions of space, place and identity have become increasingly prominent throughout the arts and humanities in recent times. This study begins by investigating the reasons for this growth in interest and analyses the underlying assumptions on which interdisciplinary discussions about space are often based. After tracing back the history of contact between Geography and Literary Studies from both disciplinary perspectives, it goes on to discuss recent academic work in the field and seeks to forge a new conceptual framework through which contemporary discussions of space and literature can operate. The book then moves on to a thorough application of the interdisciplinary model that it has established. Having argued that the experience of contemporary space has rendered questions of home and belonging particularly pressing, it undertakes detailed analysis of how these phenomena are articulated in a selection of recent French life writing texts. The close, text-led readings reveal that whilst not often highlighted for their relevance to the analysis of space, these works do in fact narrate the impact of some of the most significant cultural experiences of the twentieth century, including the Holocaust and the AIDS crisis, upon geo-cultural senses of identity. Home is shown to be a deeply problematic, yet strongly desired, element of the contemporary world. The book concludes by addressing the underlying thesis that contemporary life writing might provide just the ?postmodern maps? that could help not only literary scholars, but also geographers, better understand the world today. Key names and concepts: Serge Doubrovsky - Hervé Guibert - Fredric Jameson - Philippe Lejeune - Régine Robin; Autofiction - Cultural Geography - Interdisciplinarity - Place and Identity - Postmodernism - Space - Postmodern Space - Literary Studies - Twentieth-Century Life Writing. 410 0$aSpatial practices ;$v3. 606 $aAuthors, French$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aAutobiographies$zFrance 606 $aAutobiography 606 $aGeography in literature 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 615 0$aAuthors, French 615 0$aAutobiographies 615 0$aAutobiography. 615 0$aGeography in literature. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 676 $a304.2 700 $aJones$b Elizabeth H$g(Elizabeth Houston)$0301228 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778390303321 996 $aSpaces of belonging$93827855 997 $aUNINA