Name: Transnational Landscapes and Postmodern Poetics
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Transnational Landscapes and Postmodern Poetics

Mapping Culture, Literature, and Politics

Edited By: Asma Hichri, Samira Mechri

£61.99

How the spatial imagination has informed our postmodern mapping of literature, culture, history, geography and politics, is explored here. The text invites a reappraisal of the value of space in our social, political and historical realities.

This book moves beyond conventional conceptions of space and place to explore how the spatial imagination has informed our postmodern mapping of literature, culture, history,…

This book moves beyond conventional conceptions of space and place to explore how the spatial imagination has informed our postmodern mapping of literature, culture, history, geography and politics. In this volume, scholars from different academic fields contest new territories for critical expression, venturing into a geocritical discussion of notions of identity, borders, territory, cognitive geographies, glocal cultural mobility, gendered spaces, (post)colonial cartographies, and spaces of resistance.

These brilliant discussions of the postmodern dialectics of space and place invite a reappraisal of the value of space in our social, political and historical realities, thus extending the geographical imagination beyond its physical and territorial manifestations and investigating its hitherto uncharted spiritual, psychic, emotional, literary, and symbolic terrains.

Bringing together theoretical and critical contributions in the fields of culture, history, politics, and literature, this engaging work invites readers to think geocritically about the significance of space and place in the postmodern age. It represents essential reading for students, critics, and scholars from various academic fields and disciplines, including history, geography, cultural studies, anthropology, political science, literature and critical theory.

Asma Hichri is a Lecturer in English literature at the Higher Institute of Human Sciences of Tunis at the University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia, and teaches in the areas of South African and American literatures and postcolonial and postmodernist criticism. She has published in several international journals, such as ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature and The Journal of African Literature and Culture. Her research interests include South African history and literature, English literature, African American history, and postmodernist and postcolonial studies.

Samira Mechri is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia. She received an MA in Cultural Studies from the University of Warwick, UK, and a PhD from the University of La Manouba, Tunisia, on a joint programme with the University of Warwick. Her areas of interest are post-colonial studies, travel literature, translation studies and international relations, and she has published articles on colonial literature, travel writing, translation, and academic encounters. She is currently the Head of the English Department and Director of the MA in English and International Relations at the Higher Institute of Human Sciences at the University of Tunis El Manar.