Overview
- Studies literature across a range of time periods, genres, national literatures
- Considers travel, mobility, movement in and within spaces, and political positions through a spatial framework
- Argues for viewing literature as actionable for social change and resistance
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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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.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Mobility
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Spatiality
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Radical Positions
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Conclusion
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Christian Beck is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Central Florida, USA. He has published on a wide array of topics ranging from medieval English literature to graffiti and hacktivism. He recently published Spatial Resistance: Literary and Digital Challenges to Neoliberalism (2019) and is currently working on his next monograph, The Figure of the Vigilante: Concepts for Political and Social Justice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mobility, Spatiality, and Resistance in Literary and Political Discourse
Editors: Christian Beck
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83477-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83476-0Published: 12 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83479-1Published: 13 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83477-7Published: 11 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 320
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary Theory, Literature, general, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Political Sociology