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Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place

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  • © 2012

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  1. Eric Prieto
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Eric Prieto
      Pages 1-14

  3. Phenomenological Place

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Place, Subjectivity, and the Humanist Tradition

      • Eric Prieto
      Pages 17-36

    3. Samuel Beckett and the Postmodern Loss of Place

      • Eric Prieto
      Pages 37-71

  4. The Social Production of Place

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Poststructuralism and the Resistance to Place

      • Eric Prieto
      Pages 75-106

    3. Beur Fiction and the Banlieue Crisis

      • Eric Prieto
      Pages 107-136

  5. Postcolonial Place

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Place after Postcolonial Studies

      • Eric Prieto
      Pages 139-152

    3. Evolution in/of the Caribbean Landscape Narrative

      • Eric Prieto
      Pages 153-186

  6. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion

      • Eric Prieto
      Pages 187-200

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 201-235
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About this book

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.

About the author

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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