Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Space, Literature, and the Sense of the Global
Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
ISBN: 978-1-041-19860-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Is the world a place? As its inhabitants, we belong to the world, with its increasingly interconnected systems and cultures, but the cosmopolitanism of our daily lives is often hidden from view. In this innovative study, Robert T. Tally Jr. challenges our fundamental understanding of what constitutes the “world” in an age of shifting spatial boundaries.
The conception of the “world” profoundly influences the ways we imagine space and place, and the negotiation of worldly spaces presents challenges to traditional means of mapping or making sense of one’s place. Indeed, the timing of the “spatial turn” correlates with an enhanced consideration of processes and effects of globalization, which in turn has led to a dramatic increase in awareness of world literature. These phenomena engender a more cosmopolitan character to all aspects of human experience, along with a dialectical counterpart seen in the retrenchment of various nationalisms or greater emphases on local cultural formations. All of which pose challenges to the already vexing crisis of representation in late capitalist postmodernity and its accompanying anxieties. Geocritical Cosmopolitanism: Space, Literature, and the Sense of the Global confronts problems associated with mapping this world-system in relation to our understanding and experience of spatiality, intercultural dialogue, and cosmopolitanism in an era of ever more complex processes of globalization.
This is essential reading for readers interested in world literature, globalization, urban studies, geocriticism, and the spatial humanities more broadly.
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Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: “A Proper Love for the World”
Part I. The Frame and the Map
1. Geocritical Worlding: Spatiality Studies on a Global Scale
2. Ever Given; or, the Crisis Called the World System
3. The Logic of the Situation: Place, Orientation, and Demystification
4. “Nothing human is alien to me”: Boundaries of Spatial Critical Practice
5. Zones of Experience: Marxism, Mapping, and Spatial Literary Studies
Part II. The Polis and the Cosmos
6. Walking in the Global City: Itineraries, Maps, and Lines of Flight
7. Of Other American Spaces: The Alterity of the Urban in the National Imaginary
8. A Postmodern Mappa Mundi: Configuring a Metropolitan Space
9. Unmappably Cosmopolitan: Cultural Criticism the Postnational Condition
Part III. Representing the Global
10. Is the World a Place?: Philology, Geocriticism, and Weltliteratur
11. The World is Bent: Cosmopolitanism After the Plastic Turn
12. “Unlimited, but exceedingly monotonous and forbidding”; or, Oceanic Spaces
13. Reading a “Chinese” Novel; or, the Cultural Logic of Globalization 2.0
Conclusion: Heterotopophrenia
Bibliography
Index
