Narratives of Place in Literature and Film

Herausgeber: Allen, Steven; Møllegaard, Kirsten

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Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary collection seeks to interrogate the connections of people to place to probe how place is narrativized in literature and film.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781138499928
• ISBN-10: 1138499927
• Artikelnr.: 55044858

Autorenporträt

Steven Allen is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Winchester, UK, where he is also the Programme Leader. He has published widely on Australian cinema, animation, representations of landscapes, and cultural memory. He is co-editor of Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts and author of Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body. Recent research has centered on Australian cinema including "The Undead Down Under" (in The Zombie Renaissance in Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan)) and "Australian Animation: Landscape, Isolation and Connections" (in Animated Landscapes: History, Form and Function (Bloomsbury)). He is currently writing a monograph entitled Decentring the Outback in Australian Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan), and is a judge for the Australian ATOM awards. Kirsten Møllegaard is Professor of English at University of Hawai'i at Hilo. She teaches courses in comics and graphic novels, gender and women's studies, film, literature, myth and folklore, and rhetoric. Her research interests focus on the dynamics of places, people, and stories past and present. Her research articles and book reviews have appeared in International Journal of Comic Art; Journal of American Culture; Journal of Popular Culture; Supernatural Studies; Western American Literature; and Folklore. Her most recent book chapters appear in The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination (2017); Toy Stories: The Toy as Hero in Literature, Comics, and Film (2017); Folk Belief and Traditions of the Supernatural (2016); and Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag (2014). She serves on the board of directors of the Hawai'i Council for the Humanities and enthusiastically supports public humanities events on Hawai'i Island.

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction (Steven Allen and Kirsten Møllegaard); Part I -
Contested Histories of Place: Colonialism, Indigeneity, and Marginalization
Introduction: ; Chapter 1: Constructing Sovereignties in Leslie Marmon
Silko's Ceremony and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a
Part-Time Indian; Chapter 2: Colonial and Indigenous Movements Towards and
Through the Landscapes of Swedish Lapland in the Journals of Petrus
Læstadius; Chapter 3: Geographies of Marginalization and Identity Politics
in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss; Part II - Environmental
Landscapes: Constructing and Consuming Nature Introduction: ; Chapter 4:
Tasmania: Australia's Cinematic Landscape of Loss ; Chapter 5: Perceptions
of Place in an Irish Energy Landscape on Film; Chapter 6: Walking the
Mythical Path: Thoreau's Old Marlboro Road; Part III - Cityscapes:
Movements, Ideology, and Discourse Introduction: ; Chapter 7: The Country,
the City, the Sea, and Girls with Green Eyes: The Films of Desmond Davis
and Edna O'Brien; Chapter 8: Singing about the City: Imaginations of the
City in Telugu Film Songs; Chapter 9 The Dao of the East-West City:
Globalizing Identities and Urban Harmonies in Xiaolu Guo's Literature; Part
IV - The Social Construction of Place: Meaningful Imaginaries
Introduction: Chapter 10 Contested Spaces: Adichie, Lahiri and the Politics
of Belonging; Chapter 11 Vertical Heterotopias: Territories and Power
Hierarchies in Tosh Gitonga's Nairobi Half Life; Chapter 12 Ideologically
Charged Urban and Rural Places in American Movies about HIV/AIDS: Social
Constructionism and the Cultural Imaginary in the Late Twentieth Century;
Part V - Landscapes of Belonging: Nation and Identity Introduction:
Chapter 13 Between Place and Non-Place: Disrupting the Categorizations of
the Past in Ida Chapter 14 Home and the Range: On the Concept of Home in
Annie Proulx's Wyoming Stories Chapter 15 Narratives of Water: Changing
Places and Contested Spaces in Swedish Literature