Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3031303148 ISBN 13: 9783031303142

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Synopsis

Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts analyzes the impact migrations, both internal and external, have on Europe’s literary and visual representations in the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The volume aims to subvert a centripetal reading of European cultural production by including peripheral thinkers, writers, and visual artists operating in transcultural contexts. The essays highlight and investigate the fertile artistic discourses generated in the spatial peripheries outside of Europe or its inner peripheries. The volume addresses the need for geocritical readings that overcome the engrained dichotomy of centers-peripheries. By doing so, the book brings a more nuanced approach to national literatures and proposes the idea of “contact zones of imaginative interaction”.

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About the Author

Kathryn Everly is Professor of Spanish, Syracuse University, USA.

Stefano Giannini is Associate Professor of Italian, Syracuse University, USA.

Karina von Tippelskirch is Associate Professor of German, Syracuse University, USA.

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​Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts analyzes the impact migrations, both internal and external, have on Europe’s literary and visual representations in the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The volume aims to subvert a centripetal reading of European cultural production by including peripheral thinkers, writers, and visual artists operating in transcultural contexts. The essays highlight and investigate the fertile artistic discourses generated in the spatial peripheries outside of Europe or its inner peripheries. The volume addresses the need for geocritical readings that overcome the engrained dichotomy of centers-peripheries. By doing so, the book brings a more nuanced approach to national literatures and proposes the idea of “contact zones of imaginative interaction”.

Kathryn Everly is Professor of Spanish, Syracuse University, USA.

Stefano Giannini is Associate Professor of Italian, Syracuse University, USA.

Karina von Tippelskirch is Associate Professor of German, Syracuse University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031303148
• ISBN 13: 9783031303142
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226
• Editor: Everly Kathryn, Giannini Stefano, Von Tippelskirch Karina