Mobility, Spatiality, and Resistance in Literary and Political Discourse

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Mobility, Space, and Resistance: Transformative Spatiality in Literary and Political Discourse draws from various disciplines―such as geography, sociology, political science, gender studies, and poststructuralist thought―to posit the productive capabilities of literature in political action and at the same time show how literary art can resist the imposition and domination of oppressive systems of our spatial lives. The various approaches, topics, and types of literature discussed in this volume display a concern for social issues that can be addressed in and through literature. The essays address social injustice, oppression, discrimination, and their spatial representations. While offering interpretations of literature, this collection seeks to show how literary spaces contribute to understanding, changing, or challenging physical spaces of our lived world. Series Editor’s Preface Acknowledgments Contents Notes on Contributors List of Figures Chapter 1: Introduction: Movement, Space, and Power in the Creative Act Mobility Spatiality Radical Positions Works Cited Part I: Mobility Chapter 2: Colonial Advertising and Tourism in the Crosscurrents of Empire Anna’s Global Imagination Reverse Castaway The Body Geographic Touring the Empire Works Cited Chapter 3: The Chivalrous Nation: Travel and Ideological Exchange in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Works Cited Chapter 4: Conjuring Roots in Dystopia: Reconciling Transgenerational Conflict and Dislocation Through Ancestral Speakers in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring and Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying Caribbean Connections Metaphysical Conflict in Dystopia Politicizing Identity, Nationality, and “Home” Conjuring Ancestors and Spiritual Messengers Sacrificing for Family and Opportunities Reconciling Transgenerational Displacement Through Storytelling and Spiritual Practice Works Cited Chapter 5: Mobility, Incarceration, and the Politics of Resistance in Palestinian Women’s Literature Golda Slept Here (2014) and Colonial Architecture Boundaries and the Colonized Space in Out of It (2011): Gaza and the Outside World Works Cited Chapter 6: Matriarchal Mobility: Generational Displacement and Gendered Place in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping Works Cited Part II: Spatiality Chapter 7: Interiorized Imperialism in Native American and Japanese American World War II Narratives Work Cited Chapter 8: Turning the Earth, Changing the Narrative: Spatial Transformation in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy; or, Shadows Uplifted (1892) Making Room in the Market and Woods: Challenging the Narrative Turning the Earth: From Plantation (Slaves) to Homeowners (Citizens) Something to See Here: Unearthing Racial Violence and Survival in the Reconstructed South Conclusion Works Cited Chapter 9: Woolf in the Background: Distance as Visual Philosophy, Then and Now A Philosophy of Depth Woolf in the Panorama Distances and Depth in Virtual Media Works Cited Part III: Radical Positions Chapter 10: A New Cartographer: Rabih Alameddine and An Unnecessary Woman Works Cited Chapter 11: Vulnerable Erotic Encounters: A Chronotopic Reading of the Bus-Space in Chicu’s Soliloquy Encounters and Space Chronotopes and Genre Encountering Vulnerability: Analysis of Soliloquy Work Cited Chapter 12: Anti-capitalism and the Near Future: In Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Louise Erdrich’s The Future Home of the Living God Works Cited Chapter 13: Frantz Fanon, Chester Himes, and a “Literature of Combat” “Harlem” and “Palestine” Violence and Organization Final Reflections Works Cited Part IV: Conclusion Chapter 14: Resisting a Wilting Society: To Blossom Works Cited Index