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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"geocriticism"”.
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Strangers from within, strangers from without: negotiations and uses of space in African American and immigrant literatures and cultures, 1900s-1950s
… nonnegotiable differences. I turn to geocriticism as my analytical tool, thus focusing on literary spatiality as the key to these cross-ethnic negotiations. "
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Railspace: A Geocritical Study of the Railroad through American Literature and Culture
<p>This dissertation uses geocriticism to argue that the American railroad is best understood as a set of discursively constructed railspaces formed through a variety of viewpoints, a polysensorial awareness of space, and stratified social relationships and power struggles. This study takes up four …
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A Geocritical Approach to Coloniality and Aesthetics: Mapping the Spatial Narratives of the Amazon Basin
… doing so, I hope to expand the role of literary geocriticism through an exercise of spatial decolonization, one that prioritizes the often ignored terrain of the Amazon jungle.</p>
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Composite City: Towards A Theory of the Composite Urban In Contemporary Multi-/Ethnic Literature
… theories of postcolonialism, postmodernism, and geocriticism, and offers instead a practice of understanding contemporary multi-/ethnic literature, attending to issues of temporality, historicity, and the growing need for literary theory to advocate for the voices of contemporary multi-ethnic …
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Contested nationhood: Literary Geographies of contemporary Italian Alpine borders
… at the intersection of Literary Geography and Geocriticism, this study investigates how national, regional, and local belonging is expressed in selected works set in three Alpine border regions, in relation to the geo-social transformations that have occurred since the 1980s. These regions are …