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Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures: Crossings, Transgressions, and Transitions book cover

1st Edition

Spatiality in Contemporary Anglophone Literatures Crossings, Transgressions, and Transitions

Edited By Petr Chalupský, Tereza Topolovská Copyright 2026
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction: The Spatiality of Crossings, Transgressions, and Transitions

PETR CHALUPSKÝ AND TEREZA TOPOLOVSKÁ

 

 

Part I – Borders and Border Territories

 

1. The Symbolisation of Space and Border Crossing in Western Culture and Its Representation in Anglophone Literature

SUSANA ONEGA

 

2. Border Imagery in M. G. Sanchez’s Literary Cartography of Gibraltar: Rock Black and Jonathan Gallardo

TIJANA PAREZANOVIĆ

 

3. Seascapes, Strands, and Ecocritical Awareness in Jean Sprackland’s Strands. A Year of Discoveries on the Beach

IMKE LICHTERFELD

 

 

Part II – Cityscapes in Transformation

 

4. Ivan Vladislavić’s Aesthetics of Spatiality in Portrait With Keys and The Near North

EWALD MENGEL

 

5. Writing the City: Reclaiming Space and Identity in David Dabydeen’s Our Lady of Demerara

CRISTINA BENICCHI

 

6. Place, Spatiality, and Textuality in the Hyperrealist Vision of the City in Peter Ackroyd’s The Lambs of London

MARÍA JESÚS PEREA VILLENA

 

 

Part III – Placelessness and Belonging in the Postcolony

 

7. Following Your Homing Desire: Domesticated Spaces, Uncanny Spaces, and the Sense of Belonging in Hafsa Zayyan’s We Are All Birds of Uganda

JOANNA ANTONIAK

 

8. Negotiating Black British Identities through Place Attachment and Thirdspaces in Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Small Worlds

GIZEM DOĞRUL

 

9. Nonplaces and Crime in David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s Winter Counts

ŠÁRKA BUBÍKOVÁ

 

 

Part IV – Conceptual Geographies

 

10. The Metamodernist Abyss in China Miéville’s Kraken and This Census-Taker

EWA RYCHTER 

 

11. Spatial Anxieties: The Re-visioning of the Agoraphobic Woman in Chelsea G. Summers’ A Certain Hunger

ZUZANNA SZATANIK

 

12. Reimagining Space: Spatial and Emotional Geographies in Tracy Chevalier’s New Boy

IVONA MIŠTEROVÁ

 

Conclusion: Towards the Shifting (Re)configurations of Representational Spatiality

PETR CHALUPSKÝ AND TEREZA TOPOLOVSKÁ

 

Index

 

Biography

Petr Chalupský is an associate professor and head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Charles University, Czech Republic.

Tereza Topolovská is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Charles University, Czech Republic, where she teaches courses on English, British and American Literature, Literary Studies, and Postcolonial Literature.

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