Rethinking Place Through Literary Form regards the relationship between place and linguistic form as challenging real and perceived configurations of place and renegotiating geopolitically determined categories of the centre and periphery. The volume argues that the rise of scattered communities, displaced physically and psychologically by urban and alienated geographies, necessitates linguistic negotiations of ones locatedness in place as the chief means of uncovering and re-building identity. By looking at narrative re-imaginings of forgotten and interrupted intimacies between habitation and place from diverse parts of the world, the twelve chapters address the growing need to expand and alter approaches to literary representations of modernity and modes of self-location.
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1 Introduction: The Interconnectedness of Place and Literary Form |
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Part I The Influence of Place on Form: Literary Form and the Displacement of Locales |
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2 Othered Places and the Bengali Leftist Female Bildungsroman: Sulekha Sanyal's Nabankur and the Pre-Independence Communist Everyday |
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3 Island of Words: The De-Realization of Place in the Writings of George Mackay Brown |
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4 Locating Statelessness: The Multiple Forms of Anarchist Utopia in B. Traven's The Death Ship |
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Part II The Influence of Place on Form: Neighbourhoods, Homes and Remakings of Form |
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5 "Earthquakes or Earthmovers": Place Memory and Literary Counterspace in Helena Maria Viramontes' Their Dogs Came with Them |
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6 "A House with Many Rooms": Transformed Homes in Dinaw Mengestu's All Our Names |
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Part III Formal Reconfigurations of Place: Regions, Nations, and Formal (Disjunctions |
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7 "Her Strong Roots Sink Down": Displacement, Migration, and Form in Jean Toomer's Cane |
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8 De-Provincializing Liola: Pirandello, Futurism, and the Dialectics of Revision in Gramsci's Cultural Writings |
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9 "And No One Talks of National Rebirth": Liberal Humanist Interventionism in the Post-Imperial Space of D.J. Enright's Poetry |
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Part IV Formal Reconfigurations of Place: Discursive Cities and Transitory Worlds |
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10 "No New Newark": Rewriting Place through the Failed Form of Family Romance in Philip Roth's The Anatomy Lesson |
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11 The Invisible City of the Creole Caribbean Takes Shape: A Discourse Between Italo Calvino and Edouard Glissant |
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12 Locating the World in the Prose Poems of Peter Riley |
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Rupsa Banerjee is Assistant Professor of English at St. Xavier's University, Kolkata, India.
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.
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