Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures : Crossings, Transgressions, and Transitions (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature)

Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures focuses on how spatiality has been used as a theme, motif, metaphor, and constitutive and interpretive device in anglophone literatures written after the year 2000. Drawing on selected spatial approaches and practices, the book examines diverse kinds of spatial organisations, practices, and relationships as depicted in selected recent fiction and non-fiction written in English, and the roles they assume in reflecting the larger social, cultural, geopolitical, and environmental circumstances of the current world, with a particular focus on transitional, transgressive, and transformative phenomena that determine the perception and conception of our lived environment. It also demonstrates the ways in which the applied theoretical and critical instruments prove appropriate and viable for a meaningful analysis of contemporary anglophone literatures’ treatment of space, and how they attest to the changing role of spatial tropes and spatiality in these narratives. This volume will be of interest to academics and students of contemporary literatures written in English and spatial literary studies, literary theory, and criticism.