Spaces of Longing and Belonging

Territoriality, Ideology and Creative Identity in Literature and Film
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40292-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 14 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Spatial Practices

Spaces of Longing and Belonging offers the reader theoretical and interpretative studies of spatiality centered on a variety of literary and cultural contexts. It brings new and complementary insights to bear on creative uses of spatiality in artistic texts and generally into the field of spatiality as a cultural phenomenon, especially, although not exclusively, in terms of literary space. Ranging over questions of aesthetics, politics, sociohistorical concerns, issues of postcoloniality, transculturality, ecology and features of interpersonal spaces, among others, the essays provide a considerable collection of innovative pieces of scholarship on important questions relating to literary spatiality generally, as well as detailed analyses of particular works and authors. The volume includes ground-breaking theoretical investigations of crucial dimensions of spatiality in a context of increased global awareness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Juez, Brigitte le

Richardson, Bill

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Brigitte Le Juez and Bill Richardson

1 Belonging to the Periphery of the Planet

Bertrand Westphal

PART 1

In-between Territories

2 Home/land: Diasporic Space and Topologies of Relation in Nimrod’s L’Or des rivières (Chad, 2010)

Polo B. Moji

3 Poetics of the Shipping Forecast

Sanna Nyqvist

4 “That Other Unreality”: Place, Non-place and the Fantastic in Julio Cortázar’s “La Isla A Mediodía” (1966)

Ivan Kenny

5 Longing and Belonging in Contemporary Finland-Swedish Literature

Kaisa Kurikka, Hanna Lahdenperä, Kristina Malmio and Julia Tidigs

6 The Longing of Lafcadio Hearn for his Own Japan

Rodger Williamson

PART 2

Ideological Sites of Belonging

7 Spatial Patterns in Literary Fiction: the Case of Delibes’s The Holy Innocents

Bill Richardson

8 Romantic Poets and the Legend of the Haunted Cave of Hercules

Pilar Vega Rodríguez

9 Longing and Belonging: Space, Time and Intertextuality in the Post-Colonial Theatre of Wole Soyinka

Rosa Branca Figueiredo

10 Race and Post-9/11 Arab-American Identity: Contestatory Agency in the Poetic Discourse of Suheir Hammad and Andrea Assaf

Omar Baz Radwan

PART 3

Space, Affect and Identity

11 Remaking Creativity: H Story, Nobuhiro Suwa’s Transposition of Hiroshima Mon Amour

Brigitte Le Juez

12 Signifying the Nation: (in)Communication, Absence and National (Be)Longing in Marc Evans’s Patagonia (2010)

Jennifer Wood

13 The Outcasts of the Universe: Longing and Belonging in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s and Edgar Allan Poe’s London Tales

Andrea Chiurato

14 Place and the Representation of the Self: Milan Kundera’s Prague and Gu Hua’s Hibiscus Town

Gabriel F.Y. Tsang

15 Speaking the Past: Place as Inspiration and Nostalgia in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories and the City and Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography

Aytül Özüm

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brigitte Le Juez, CompLit Associate Professor (DCU), recently co-edited four collections on “Longing and Belonging” in online journals: The Wenshan Review, Between and Çédille; and a book, (Re)Writing Without Borders. Contemporary Intermedial Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts (2018).

Bill Richardson is Emeritus Professor in Spanish at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has published monographs, articles, edited collections and book-chapters on Spanish culture and society and on Latin American and Spanish Literature, including the book Borges and Space (2012).