Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts

by Kathryn Everly (Editor), Stefano Giannini (Editor), Karina von Tippelskirch (Editor)

Overview

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”.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031303111
Publisher:	Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date:	06/13/2023
Series:	Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Edition description:	2023
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Centers-Peripheries; Literary, Cinematic, and Artistic Spaces.- Artistic Practices at the Border: Waiting and Crossing in the Context of Escape and Exile.- Revolutionary Peripheries: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Cinema of Borgata”.- Inner Periphery? The Rhine from Borderland to Interzone.- Enrico Pea and the Awareness of Never-Ending Detachment (Alexandria, Egypt 1896–1914).- From Mexico to Madrid: Thirdspace in Concha Méndez’s Poemas: Sombras y sueños.- Toward the Periphery of Europe: Erich Maria Remarque’s Novel The Night in Lisbon.- Najat El Hachmi: Away from Patriarchy, Hijab, and Cultural Relativism.- Doctor Möbius, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Line.

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From the Publisher

Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts is an inspiring contribution to the archive of modern scholarship on multi-lingual, cross-cultural, and transnational literary and artistic works. Through thematically diverse yet conceptually connected approaches centered on the model of geocriticism, the essays in this volume bring together voices from different times and time zones in contrapuntal harmony." (Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)