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Spaces of Longing and Belonging offers the reader theoretical and interpretative studies of spatiality centered on a variety of literary and cultural contexts. It brings new and complementary insights to bear on creative uses of spatiality in artistic texts and generally into the field of spatiality as a cultural phenomenon, especially, although not exclusively, in terms of literary space. Ranging over questions of aesthetics, politics, sociohistorical concerns, issues of postcoloniality, transculturality, ecology and features of interpersonal spaces, among others, the essays provide a considerable collection of innovative pieces of scholarship on important questions relating to literary spatiality generally, as well as detailed analyses of particular works and authors. The volume includes ground-breaking theoretical investigations of crucial dimensions of spatiality in a context of increased global awareness.
Price: $152.00
Pages: 14
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Spatial Practices
Publication Date:
15 August 2019
ISBN: 9789004402928
Format: Hardcover
“[…] Spaces of Longing and Belonging is thought-provoking. While this publication may be too diversified to fit neatly into one graduate course, it could be utilized for the close reading and application of previous spatial theories in the classroom […] This Brill publication is of high quality, with a functional, if not expansive index. As volume 30 of the Spatial Practices series, this book contains more than enough material to be a meaningful step forward in the study of longing and belonging within the fields of cultural history, geography, and literature.”
- Wayne E. Arnold, The University of Kitakyushu, JP in Literary Geographies, Vol. 6 2020 pp. 141-143
“Spaces of Longing and Belonging: Territoriality, Ideology and Creative Identity in Literature and Film does a fine job of providing a multidisciplinary approach to geocritical understanding of planeterity. The contributions to this volume shake up ‘violent autonormativity whereby “the West” kept reinventing itself and all its inferior others’ (Dabashi 2012: 15) and look at different ways mobility creates relational subjectivities.”
- Parisha Delshad, Universidad de Salamanca Spain, in Nexus 2020.01 pp. 42-44
- Wayne E. Arnold, The University of Kitakyushu, JP in Literary Geographies, Vol. 6 2020 pp. 141-143
“Spaces of Longing and Belonging: Territoriality, Ideology and Creative Identity in Literature and Film does a fine job of providing a multidisciplinary approach to geocritical understanding of planeterity. The contributions to this volume shake up ‘violent autonormativity whereby “the West” kept reinventing itself and all its inferior others’ (Dabashi 2012: 15) and look at different ways mobility creates relational subjectivities.”
- Parisha Delshad, Universidad de Salamanca Spain, in Nexus 2020.01 pp. 42-44
Brigitte Le Juez, CompLit Associate Professor (DCU), recently co-edited four collections on “Longing and Belonging” in online journals: The Wenshan Review, Between and Çédille; and a book, (Re)Writing Without Borders. Contemporary Intermedial Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts (2018).
Bill Richardson is Emeritus Professor in Spanish at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has published monographs, articles, edited collections and book-chapters on Spanish culture and society and on Latin American and Spanish Literature, including the book Borges and Space (2012).
Bill Richardson is Emeritus Professor in Spanish at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has published monographs, articles, edited collections and book-chapters on Spanish culture and society and on Latin American and Spanish Literature, including the book Borges and Space (2012).