Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

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      Pages 1-14

3. Phenomenological Place

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Place, Subjectivity, and the Humanist Tradition

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   3. Samuel Beckett and the Postmodern Loss of Place

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      Pages 37-71

4. The Social Production of Place

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Poststructuralism and the Resistance to Place

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      Pages 75-106

   3. Beur Fiction and the Banlieue Crisis

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      Pages 107-136

5. Postcolonial Place

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Place after Postcolonial Studies

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      Pages 139-152

   3. Evolution in/of the Caribbean Landscape Narrative

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      Pages 153-186

6. Conclusion

   1. Conclusion

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      Pages 187-200

7. Back Matter

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Using contemporary literary representations of place, this study focuses on works that have participated in the emergence of new conceptions of place and new place-based identities. The analyses draw on research in cultural geography, cognitive science, urban sociology, and globalization studies.

• Analyse
• crisis
• fiction
• Narrative
• poetics
• Postcolonial Studies
• Samuel Beckett
• structuralism
• Tradition

Eric Prieto is an associate professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The author of Listening In: Music, Mind, and the Modernist Narrative, he has published widely on literary representations of place and on the relations between music and literature.

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