Mobility, spatiality, and resistance in literary and political discourse / / edited by Christian Beck

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.93355
• Soggetto topico: Literature and society; Public spaces; Social justice
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): BeckChristian <1979->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Movement, Space, and Power in the Creative Act -- Mobility -- Spatiality -- Radical Positions -- Works Cited -- Part I: Mobility -- Chapter 2: Colonial Advertising and Tourism in the Crosscurrents of Empire -- Anna's Global Imagination -- Reverse Castaway -- The Body Geographic -- Touring the Empire -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: The Chivalrous Nation: Travel and Ideological Exchange in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Works Cited -- Chapter 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 -- Caribbean Connections -- Metaphysical Conflict in Dystopia -- Politicizing Identity, Nationality, and "Home" -- Conjuring Ancestors and Spiritual Messengers -- Sacrificing for Family and Opportunities -- Reconciling Transgenerational Displacement Through Storytelling and Spiritual Practice -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: Mobility, Incarceration, and the Politics of Resistance in Palestinian Women's Literature -- Golda Slept Here (2014) and Colonial Architecture -- Boundaries and the Colonized Space in Out of It (2011): Gaza and the Outside World -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Matriarchal Mobility: Generational Displacement and Gendered Place in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping -- Works Cited -- Part II: Spatiality -- Chapter 7: Interiorized Imperialism in Native American and Japanese American World War II Narratives -- Work Cited -- Chapter 8: Turning the Earth, Changing the Narrative: Spatial Transformation in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy -- or, Shadows Uplifted (1892) -- Making Room in the Market and Woods: Challenging the Narrative. ; Turning the Earth: From Plantation (Slaves) to Homeowners (Citizens) -- Something to See Here: Unearthing Racial Violence and Survival in the Reconstructed South -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: Woolf in the Background: Distance as Visual Philosophy, Then and Now -- A Philosophy of Depth -- Woolf in the Panorama -- Distances and Depth in Virtual Media -- Works Cited -- Part III: Radical Positions -- Chapter 10: A New Cartographer: Rabih Alameddine and An Unnecessary Woman -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11: Vulnerable Erotic Encounters: A Chronotopic Reading of the Bus-Space in Chicu's Soliloquy -- Encounters and Space -- Chronotopes and Genre -- Encountering Vulnerability: Analysis of Soliloquy -- Work Cited -- Chapter 12: Anti-capitalism and the Near Future: In Mohsin Hamid's Exit West and Louise Erdrich's The Future Home of the Living God -- Works Cited -- Chapter 13: Frantz Fanon, Chester Himes, and a "Literature of Combat" -- "Harlem" and "Palestine" -- Violence and Organization -- Final Reflections -- Works Cited -- Part IV: Conclusion -- Chapter 14: Resisting a Wilting Society: To Blossom -- Works Cited -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mobility, spatiality, and resistance in literary and political discourse
• ISBN: 3-030-83477-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910508469003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Geocriticism and spatial literary studies.