By Elizabeth H. Jones
ISBN-10: 1435604954
ISBN-13: 9781435604957
ISBN-10: 9042022833
ISBN-13: 9789042022836
Questions of area, position and id became more and more well known in the course of the arts and arts in recent years. This research starts off through investigating the explanations for this progress in curiosity and analyses the underlying assumptions on which interdisciplinary discussions approximately area are usually dependent. After tracing again the historical past of touch among Geography and Literary reviews from either disciplinary views, it is going directly to talk about fresh educational paintings within the box and seeks to forge a brand new conceptual framework during which modern discussions of area and literature can function. The ebook then strikes directly to a radical program of the interdisciplinary version that it has proven. Having argued that the adventure of latest house has rendered questions of domestic and belonging rather urgent, it undertakes particular research of ways those phenomena are articulated in a range of contemporary French lifestyles writing texts. The shut, text-led readings display that while hardly ever highlighted for his or her relevance to the research of house, those works do in reality narrate the influence of a few of the main major cultural reports of the 20th century, together with the Holocaust and the AIDS challenge, upon geo-cultural senses of id. house is proven to be a deeply complicated, but strongly wanted, portion of the modern international. The booklet concludes by way of addressing the underlying thesis that modern existence writing could supply simply the 'postmodern maps' which may support not just literary students, but additionally geographers, greater comprehend the realm this present day. Key names and ideas: Serge Doubrovsky - Herv? Guibert - Fredric Jameson - Philippe Lejeune - R?gine Robin; Autofiction - Cultural Geography - Interdisciplinarity - position and identification - Postmodernism - house - Postmodern area - Literary reports - Twentieth-Century existence Writing.
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In addition, the availability of telecommunications means that bodies can also command space and act at a distance (Pile and Thrift 1995: 6). It seems, then, that postmodernism has increased the importance of the body in practical terms. In fact, as with so much of postmodernism, there is a clear parallel between practical changes and theoretical changes. For example, the postmodern impulse to question all that is deeply entrenched within society has encouraged a reappraisal of the notion of bodies as always already ‘given’.
In sum, on an international scale, postmodern global space comprises a multi-nodal network of closely linked major cities, accompanied by a plethora of more marginal places whose links to world space are unstable and shifting. It is not only the ordering of international space that has changed in postmodern times, however. As I indicated at the beginning of this chapter, the greater ability of large numbers of individuals to travel across space has resulted in an unprecedented degree of contact between different cultures, as well as increasingly complex senses of cultural affiliation.
In the second half of this chapter I will investigate institutional responses to the changing nature of space, as well as the recent history, current state and future prognosis of inter-disciplinary exchanges between the disciplines of geography and literary studies, disciplines that inflect directly the research project pursued in this monograph. 0 Postmodernism and Space: A Critical Framework The Postmodern: A Contested Field The term ‘postmodern’, like its close relations ‘postmodernism’ and ‘postmodernity’, is deeply contested.
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