1st Edition

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture Static Heroes, Social Movements and Empowerment

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways we look at literary and cultural productions. The volume seeks to clarify the connections between race, space, class, and identity as it concentrates on different occupations and disoccupations, enclosures and boundaries. Space is scaled up and down, from the body, the ground zero... Read more

Introduction: Spatial and Ideological Occupations  1. Emptying Out the Premises: Static Heroes Reclaiming Space  2. Places of Eviction and Places of Self-Exemption: The Homeless in William Kennedy’s Ironweed and Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis  3. Circling the Alien: Camp Logic in Austerlitz, Citizen 13660, and Lunar Braceros 2125-2148  4.  IV - Between Border and Dwelling: The Divisibility of the Line in Frozen River and Welcome  5. From Bartleby to Occupy Wall Street: The Politics of Empty Spaces

Biography

Ana María Manzanas is Associate Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Salamanca, Spain.

Jesús Benito is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Valladolid, Spain.