Contested spaces in contemporary North American novels : reading for space /: reading for space. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Şemsettin Tabur.
• Authors: Tabur, Şemsettin
• Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Space, the Spacial Turn, and Spatially Oriented Literary Studies. Space, Identity, Politics and Place: Theorizing Space as a Contested Concept -- The Spacial Turn in the Social Sciences. Henri Lefebvre and the Social Production of Space -- Edward Soja and Thirdspace -- Doreen Massey and the Relational Space -- Reading for Space. Space, Narrative, Geography, and Literature -- Spacially Oriented Literary Studies -- The (Relational) Space of This Study -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two: Reading Colonial Spaces in A Mercy. Colonialism, Space, and Literature -- Reading A Mercy for Space -- Narrative Spaces in A Mercy. The Physical Spaces of Colonialism -- "Dark Matter out There, Thick, Unknowable, Aching to be made into a World": The Imagined Spaces of Colonialism -- The Real-and-Imagined Spaces of Colonial Spatiality -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: Spacial Justice and Claiming Space in In Another Place, Not Here. Space, Spacial Justice, and Literature -- Reading In Another Place, Not Here for Space -- Narrative Spaces in In Another Space, Not Here. The Physical Spaces of Injustice -- "And They Have Imagined Themselves into the White Town's Imagining": The Imagined Spaces of Injustice -- Claiming Space: Real-and-Imagined Spaces and Seeking Spacial Justice -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four: Reading Diaspora Spaces in The Namesake. Diaspora, Diaspora Space, and Literature -- Reading The Namesake for Space -- Narrative Spaces in The Namesake. The Physical Spaces of Diaspora -- The Dominant Representations of Diaspora Spaces -- Lived Spaces of Diaspora -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five: Reading Riskscapes in There Will Never Be Another You. Risk, Space, and Literature -- Reading There Will Never Be Another You for Space -- Narrative Spaces in There Will Never Be Another You. The Physical Spaces of/as Riskscapes -- The Dominant Representations of Riskscapes -- Real-and-Imagined Spaces as Alternative Riskscapes -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 244 pages)
• Subjects: 813/.60932; Literature & literary studies; Space in literature; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Women authors; Space in literature; Raum; Roman; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Humanities; USA; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781527516946; 1527516946
• Related ISBNs: 1527502988; 9781527502987
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-244).; Note: Print version record.
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