In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places. Geocritical Explorations provides a succinct overview of geocriticism and a point of...
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In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places. Geocritical Explorations provides a succinct overview of geocriticism and a point of departure for further study
Cover -- Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies -- Contents -- Foreword -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On Geocriticism -- Notes -- Part I: Geocriticism in Theory and Practice -- Chapter 1: Geocriticism, Geopoetics, Geophilosophy, and Beyond -- Theoretical Orientations -- Situating Westphal's Geocriticism -- The Limits of Geocriticism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The Presencing of Place in Literature: Toward an Embodied Topopoetic Mode of Reading -- The Presencing of the Physical World in Language -- The Presencing of Place and Earth -- Examples of Topopoetic Appreciation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II: Places, Spaces, and Texts -- Chapter 3: Redrawing the Map: An Interdisciplinary Geocritical Approach to Australian Cultural Narratives -- Geocritical Traditions: Literary Geography, Film Geography, and Traditions of Spatial Enquiry in Australian Literary, Film, and Theater Studies -- Geocriticism, Interdisciplinarity, and (Re)mediated Geographies: A Cultural Atlas of Australia -- Mashing Up the Map: Digital Cartography and Geocriticism in Practice -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Textual Forests: The Representation of Landscape in Latin American Narratives -- A Wealth Repository -- A Virgin at First Glance -- The Garden of Eden -- The Curse of God -- The Colonial Montage of Indianness -- Living Images -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Land of Racial Confluence and Spatial Accessibility: Claude McKay's Sense of Mediterranean Place -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The Shores of Aphrodite's Island: Cyprus and European Travel Memory, 1600-1700 -- Travel Writing and Geocriticism -- Memories of Aphrodite -- Aphrodite on the Map -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Jefferson's Ecologies of Exception: Geography, Race, and American Empire in the Age of Globalization -- Mapping Precedes Ecology: The Jeffersonian Vision
Racial Ecologies and the Formation of a Fractured Body Politic -- Geographical Hegemony: A Vision of the Future -- Conclusion: Notes toward a Global Eco-Imperial Empire -- Notes -- Part III: Transgressions, Movements, and Border Crossings -- Chapter 8: Geopolitics, Landscape, and Guilt in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Literature -- The Settler Victim on His Homestead -- The Inevitable Colony -- The Defensive Posture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9: "Amid all the maze, uproar, and novelty": The Limits of Other-Space in Sister Carrie -- The Conventions of Rail Sociability -- Theaters, Parades, and Restaurants -- The Role of Discipline and Control -- The Novel and the World -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Furrowing the Soil with His Pen: Derek Walcott's Topography of the English Countryside -- Notes -- Chapter 11: Global Positioning from Spain: Mapping Identity in African American Narratives of Travel -- Challenging the Global Imaginary: Spain and the Trans-Mediterranean -- Individual Identification: The Moor's Return -- Recalculating: GPS as a Metaphor for Identity Construction -- An Uncanny Look at Home: Spain as a Cautionary Tale -- Notes -- Chapter 12: The Space of Transgression: A Geocritical Study of Albert Camus's "The Adulterous Wife" -- Notes -- Chapter 13: Affective Mapping in Lyric Poetry -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index
