Overview
- Takes a comparative literature approach to studying place, geography, and language
- Examines real and imagined places and their relationship to identity
- Renegotiates place-based identity in light of statelessness
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Influence of Place on Form: Literary Form and the Displacement of Locales
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The Influence of Place on Form: Neighbourhoods, Homes and Remakings of Form
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Formal Reconfigurations of Place: Regions, Nations, and Formal (Dis)junctions
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Formal Reconfigurations of Place: Discursive Cities and Transitory Worlds
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Reviews
“Theoretically informed and broad in literary scope, Rethinking Place through Literary Form offers a thoughtful challenge to prevailing models of global literature and hierarchical understandings of the relationship between European and non-European literary forms. Its nuanced theorization of place and local attachment, as well as its attention to the permeable movement of cultural identities across geographic borders, will be of great interest to students and scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first century literature, post-colonial studies, and migration.”
–Supritha Rajan, Associate Professor of English, , University of Rochester, USA
“Rethinking Place Through Literary Form engages with literature from a range of languages, genres, and places, pushing us to think beyond national or disciplinary borders. The essays draw on materialist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and ecocritical approaches, questioning the very categories in which we construct public and private, global and local, animacy and the inanimate. The result is a substantial contribution to the study of global literature in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.”
– Raphael Dalleo, Professor of English, Bucknell University, USA
“The dazzling essays in this volume map out new coordinates for the dynamic relationship between place, identity and literary writing. From anticolonial Bengal to the barrios of Los Angeles, from anarchist fiction to ecological elegy, these essays range brilliantly across periods, regions, and literary forms. Emphasizing migration and dispersal as much as rootedness, dwelling on translation and networks as much as belonging, this book suggests vital new directions in the criticism of literature and place.”
– Timothy P. Watson, Professor of English , University of Miami , USA
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nathaniel Cadle is Associate Professor of English at Florida International University, USA. His first book, The Mediating Nation: Late American Realism, Globalization, and the Progressive State (2014), won the 2015 SAMLA Studies Book Award.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Place through Literary Form
Editors: Rupsa Banerjee, Nathaniel Cadle
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96494-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96493-1Published: 31 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96496-2Published: 01 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96494-8Published: 30 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 284
Topics: Literature, general, Comparative Literature, Language and Literature