BOOKS - Claiming Space: Locations and Orientations in World Literatures
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Claiming Space: Locations and Orientations in World Literatures
Author: Bo G Ekelund
Year: November 1, 2021
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.3 MB
Language: English
Year: November 1, 2021
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.3 MB
Language: English
This open access book explores literary works and practices always existing in the dynamic relation between locations and orientations in a series of carefully designed case studies Explicitly expressed or implied manifesting itself sometimes as dislocation and disorientation the claiming of space by any symbolic means necessary is revealed as a constant effect of literary endeavors In dialogue with geopolitics of culture sociology and anthropology attention to literary locations and orientations brings spatial particularity into the study of world literatures These case studies demonstrate that four key terms cosmopolitan vernacular location orientation can frame analyses of very different types of literary acts and texts in the contemporary period allowing for distinctions that are not captured within the grids of other conceptual pairs like centre periphery local global postcolonial metropolitan North South With this framing expressive practices in a wide range of regions including Europe Africa the Middle East and the Pacific are analysed in ways that bring out how spatiality is at stake in the cosmopolitan vernacular dynamic The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY NC ND 3 0 licence on www bloomsburycollections com Open access was funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond