Occupying Space In American Literature And Culture: Static Heroes, Social Movements And Empowerment (routledge Transnational Perspectives On American Literature)
by Ana M. Manzanas /
2014 / English / PDF
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Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture
Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture
inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways
we look at literary and cultural productions. The volume seeks to
clarify the connections between race, space, class, and identity
as it concentrates on different occupations and disoccupations,
enclosures and boundaries. Space is scaled up and down, from the
body, the ground zero of spatiality, to the texturology of
Manhattan; from the striated place of the office in Melville’s
"Bartleby, the Scrivener" on Wall Street, to the striated spaces
of internment camps and reservations; from the lowest of the low,
the (human) clutter that lined the streets of Albany, NY, during
the Depression, to the new Towers of Babel that punctuate the
contemporary architecture of transparencies. As it strings
together these spatial narratives, the volume reveals how, beyond
the boundaries that characterize each space, every location has
loose ends that are impossible to contain.
inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways
we look at literary and cultural productions. The volume seeks to
clarify the connections between race, space, class, and identity
as it concentrates on different occupations and disoccupations,
enclosures and boundaries. Space is scaled up and down, from the
body, the ground zero of spatiality, to the texturology of
Manhattan; from the striated place of the office in Melville’s
"Bartleby, the Scrivener" on Wall Street, to the striated spaces
of internment camps and reservations; from the lowest of the low,
the (human) clutter that lined the streets of Albany, NY, during
the Depression, to the new Towers of Babel that punctuate the
contemporary architecture of transparencies. As it strings
together these spatial narratives, the volume reveals how, beyond
the boundaries that characterize each space, every location has
loose ends that are impossible to contain.
