Rethinking Place through Literary Form
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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 one’s 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.
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.
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 one’s 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.
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
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Rupsa Banerjee
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place identity comparative literature geography linguistics statelessness Literature and Human Rights Literary Diction
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“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
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