Contemporary writing and the politics of space : borders networks escape lines Writing and the Politics of Space: An Introduction (Juan Antonio Suárez David Walton) Part I: Borders 1. Coercive Hospital Spaces in Pat Barkers The Regeneration Trilogy (David Griffiths) 2. Metropolitan Isolation in Dystopian Literature (Ángel Galdón Rodríguez) 3. The Island Space in Film Adaptations of The Tempest: On the Invisibility of Borders (María Luisa Pascual Garrido) 4. The House: Friend or Foe Buildings Dwellings and Home in Fiction (Clara Pallejá López) 5. Thresholds of Abjection: Identity and Space in Tennessee Williamss Fiction (Laura Torres Zúñiga) Part II: Networks 6. Thomas Pynchons Against the Day: Sociopolitical Suspicion and Double Spaces of Espionage (Ana Rull Suárez) 7. Perfect Cities Permanent Hells: The Ideological Coordinates of Urban Space in Postmodern Science Fiction (Ángel Mateos Aparicio Martín Albo) 8. They Arent the Big Bad Communists We Were Raised to Think They Were The Representation of Russia in Contemporary Crime Fiction and Thrillers (Isabel Santaularia i Capdevila) 9. Charting the Liminal Geographies of Eastern Europe in Joyce Carol Oatess Short Stories (Martyna Bryla) Part III: Escape Lines 10. Bound and Unbound: Figurations of Time Space in African American Authorship (A. Robert Lee) 11. Reconfiguring the Epic Space in Anne Waldmans The Iovis Trilogy (Estíbaliz Encarnación Pinedo) 12. The Literary Geography of a Border Zone: The Canary Island in Ewing Campbells Afoot in the Garden of Enchantments (Tomás Monterrey) This collective volume explores the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies and brings together studies of contemporary English speaking literature that apply spatial theory to the analysis of literary texts. Themes include abjection espionage discipline post human identities urban geographies dystopia and coercive medical practices