Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures focuses on how spatiality has been used been used as a theme, motif, metaphor and constitutive and interpretive device in anglophone literatures written after the year 2000.
Drawing on selected spatial approaches and practices, the book examines diverse kinds of spatial organisations, practices, and relationships as depicted in selected recent fiction and non-fiction written in English, and the roles they assume in reflecting the larger social, cultural, geopolitical and environmental circumstances of the current world, with a particular focus on transitional, transgressive and transformative phenomena that determine the perception and conception of our lived environment. It also demonstrates the ways in which the applied theoretical and critical instruments prove appropriate and viable for a meaningful analysis of contemporary anglophone literatures’ treatment of space, and how they attest to the changing role of spatial tropes and spatiality in these narratives.
This volume will be of interest to academics and students of contemporary literatures written in English and spatial literary studies, literary theory and criticism.
Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures focuses on how spatiality has been used been used as a theme, motif, metaphor and constitutive and interpretive device in anglophone literatures written after the year 2000.
Introduction: The Spatiality of Crossings, Transgressions, and
Transitions - PETR CHALUPSKÝ AND TEREZA TOPOLOVSKÁ; Part I Borders and
Border Territories;
1. The Symbolisation of Space and Border Crossing in
Western Culture and Its Representation in Anglophone Literature - SUSANA
ONEGA;
2. Border Imagery in M. G. Sanchezs Literary Cartography of
Gibraltar: Rock Black and Jonathan Gallardo - TIJANA PAREZANOVI;
3.
Seascapes, Strands, and Ecocritical Awareness in Jean Spracklands Strands. A
Year of Discoveries on the Beach - IMKE LICHTERFELD; Part II Cityscapes in
Transformation;
4. Ivan Vladislavis Aesthetics of Spatiality in Portrait
With Keys and The Near North - EWALD MENGEL;
5. Writing the City: Reclaiming
Space and Identity in David Dabydeens Our Lady of Demerara - CRISTINA
BENICCHI;
6. Place, Spatiality, and Textuality in the Hyperrealist Vision of
the City in Peter Ackroyds The Lambs of London - MARÍA JESÚS PEREA VILLENA;
Part III Placelessness and Belonging in the Postcolony;
7. Following Your
Homing Desire: Domesticated Spaces, Uncanny Spaces, and the Sense of
Belonging in Hafsa Zayyans We Are All Birds of Uganda - JOANNA ANTONIAK;
8.
Negotiating Black British Identities through Place Attachment and Thirdspaces
in Caleb Azumah Nelsons Small Worlds - GIZEM DORUL;
9. Nonplaces and Crime
in David Heska Wanbli Weidens Winter Counts - ÁRKA BUBÍKOVÁ; Part IV
Conceptual Geographies;
10. The Metamodernist Abyss in China Miévilles
Kraken and This Census-Taker - EWA RYCHTER;
11. Spatial Anxieties: The
Re-visioning of the Agoraphobic Woman in Chelsea G. Summers A Certain Hunger
- ZUZANNA SZATANIK;
12. Reimagining Space: Spatial and Emotional Geographies
in Tracy Chevaliers New Boy - IVONA MITEROVÁ; Conclusion: Towards the
Shifting (Re)configurations of Representational Spatiality - PETR CHALUPSKÝ
AND TEREZA TOPOLOVSKÁ; Index
Petr Chalupský is an associate professor and head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Charles University, Czech Republic.
Tereza Topolovská is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Charles University, Czech Republic, where she teaches courses on English, British and American Literature, Literary Studies, and Postcolonial Literature.
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