Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place [Hardcover]

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.Phenomenological Place Place, Subjectivity, and the Humanist Tradition Samuel Beckett and the Postmodern Loss of Place The Social Production of Place Poststructuralism and the Resistance to Place Beur Fiction and the Banlieue Crisis Postcolonial Place Place After Postcolonial Studies Evolution in/of the Caribbean Landscape Narrative Landscape, Map, and Vertical IntegrationEric 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.