Geocritical Explorations Space, Place, and

In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places. Geocriticism offers a timely new approach, and Geocritical Explorationspresents an array of concrete examples and readings, which also reveal the broad range of geocritical practices. Representing various areas of literary and cultural studies, as well as different parts of the globe and multiple types of space, Geocritical Explorationsprovides a succinct overview of geocriticism and a point of departure for further exploration.

Robert T. TallyJr. is an assistant professor of English at Texas State University He is the author of Spatiality; Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography; and Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer. He is the translator of Berrtrand Westphat's Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces.

Foreword--Bertrand Westphal * Introduction: On Geocriticism--Robert T. Tally Jr. * Part I: Geocriticism in Theory and Practice * Geocriticism, Geopoetics, Geophilosophy, and Beyond--Eric Prieto * The Presencing of Place in Literature: Towards an Embodied Topopoetic Mode of Reading--Sten Pultz Moslund * Part II: Places, Spaces, Texts * Redrawing the Map: An Interdisciplinary Geocritical Approach to Australian Cultural Narratives--Peta Mitchell & Jane Stadler * Textual Forests: The Representation of Landscape in Latin American Narratives--Maria Mercedes Ortiz Rodriguez * Land of Racial Confluence and Spatial Accessibility: Claude McKay’s Sense of Mediterranean Place--Michael K. Walonen * The Shores of Aphrodite’s Island: Cyprus and European Travel Memory--Antoine Eche * Jefferson’s Ecologies of Exception: Geography, Race, and American Empire in the Age of Globalization--Christine M. Battista * Part III: Transgressions, Movements, Border Crossings * Geopolitics, Landscape, and Guilt in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Literature--Rebecca Weaver-Hightower * “Amid all the maze, uproar and novelty”: The Limits of Other-Space in Sister Carrie--Rachel Collins * Furrowing the Soil With His Pen: Derek Walcott’s Topography of the English Countryside--Joanna Johnson * Global Positioning from Spain: Mapping Identity in African American Narratives of Travel--Maria C. Ramos * The Space of Transgression: A Geocritical Study of Albert Camus’s “The Adulterous Wife”--Brigitte La Juez * Affective Mapping in Lyric Poetry--Heather Yeung

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Geocritical Explorations Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies

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