Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place [electronic resource] /
Prieto, E.author.
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.
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Cover; Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place; Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place; Contents; Acknowledgments; Acknowledgment of Previous Publications; Introduction; What Is Place?; Part I: Phenomenological Place; Chapter 1: Place, Subjectivity, and the Humanist Tradition; Phenomenology and Humanistic Geography; Nicholas Entrikin and the Betweenness of Place; Edward Casey, Place, and Dualism; Jeff Malpas and the Da in Dasein; The Locational Limits of Malpasian Topography; Chapter 2: Samuel Beckett and the Postmodern Loss of Place
Understanding the ImpasseBeckett, Dualism, and the Entre-Deux; The Three Modes of Beckettian Spatiality; Beckett and Varela: From Cartesian Anxiety to the Embodied Mind; Embodiment, Place, and Beckett's Refuges; Recognition and the Rhetoric of Success; Ineliminability; "How it is, in my home"; Beckett, Distributed Consciousness, and Situational Knowledge; Conclusion: Beckett's Place in the Postfoundational Pantheon; Part II: The Social Production of Place; Chapter 3: Poststructuralism and the Resistance to Place; The Continental Divide: Space, Place, and the Poststructuralist Countersciences
Maurice Blanchot's Conquest of SpaceMichel Foucault, Heterotopia, and Spatialized Power; Henri Lefebvre, Radical Geography, and Spatial Ambivalence; Michel de Certeau: Space, Place, and Interstice; Sociology and the Place Effect; Chapter 4: Beur Fiction and the Banlieue Crisis; Beur and Banlieue; Hybridity or Interstitiality?; The Interstitial Morality of the Banlieue Protagonist; Geography as Destiny; Mobility, Immobility, and the Place Effect; Of Riots, Republicanism, Resistance, and Reform; Part III: Postcolonial Place; Chapter 5: Place after Postcolonial Studies
The Evolution of Postcolonial StudiesNeo-Marxist and Culturalist Geographies of Globalization; Toward a Postpostcolonial Poetics of Place; Chapter 6: Evolution in/of the Caribbean Landscape Narrative; Aimé Césaire and the Volcanic Origins of the Postcolonial Landscape Narrative; Glissantian Hybridity, from La Lézarde to Malemort; Chamoiseau's Urban Mangrove; Condé's Crossing the Mangrove; Creolization and Tout-monde; Glissant, Malpas, and Place Theory; Nation, Neighborhood, and Niche; Conclusion: Landscape, Map, and Vertical Integration; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Literature   .
Literature-Philosophy.
America-Literatures.
European literature.
Poetry.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Literary Theory.
North American Literature.
European Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.