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Eric Prieto, Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place

Eric Prieto, Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place

Publié le par Vincent Ferré (Source : Eric Prieto)

Référence bibliographique : Eric Prieto, Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 248 pp. , 2013. EAN13 : 9781137031112.

This book opens up an understudied area within the field of literary spatiality: the question of geographical emergence. A study of contemporary literary representations of place, it draws on phenomenological, poststructural, and postcolonial theories of space and place to show how literature contributes to the formation of new geographical identities.

With chapters devoted to the in-between spaces of Samuel Beckett, France's suburban ghettoes, and the postcolonial proto-nations of France's Caribbean territories, this study emphasizes literature's ability to subtly but decisively shape readers' attitudes toward the world around them, making it possible to see such places not as defective or derivative versions of established modes of dwelling but as laboratories for the ways of life of tomorrow.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Part I -- Phenomenological Place

Chapter 1: Place, Subjectivity, and the Humanist Tradition
Chapter 2: Samuel Beckett and the Postmodern Loss of Place

Part II -- The Social Production of Place

Chapter 3: Poststructuralism and the Resistance to Place
Chapter 4: Beur Fiction and the Banlieue Crisis

Part III -- Postcolonial Place

Chapter 5: Place After Postcolonial Studies
Chapter 6: Evolution in/of the Caribbean Landscape Narrative

Conclusion: Landscape, Map, and Vertical Integration

ERIC PRIETO is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is the author of Listening In: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative, and numerous essays on music-and-literature, literary spatiality, Caribbean literature, and literary theory.