Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place

by E. Prieto

Overview

Using contemporary literary representations of place, this study focuses on works that have participated in the emergence of new conceptions of place and new place-based identities. The analyses draw on research in cultural geography, cognitive science, urban sociology, and globalization studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137031112
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	12/28/2012
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	235
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Eric Prieto is an associate professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The author of Listening In: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative, he has published widely on literary representations of place and on the relations between music and literature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Acknowledgment of Previous Publications xi

Introduction 1

Part I Phenomenological Place

1 Place, Subjectivity, and the Humanist Tradition 17

2 Samuel Beckett and the Postmodern Loss of Place 37

Part II The Social Production of Place

3 Poststructuralism and the Resistance to Place 75

4 Beur Fiction and the Banlieue Crisis 107

Part III Postcolonial Place

5 Place after Postcolonial Studies 139

6 Evolution in/of the Caribbean Landscape Narrative 153

Conclusion: Landscape, Map, and Vertical Integration 187

Notes 201

Works Cited 213

Index 225