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Book Synopsis.- 1. Spaces in Transit: An Introduction Lourdes López-Ropero.- Part I Historyscapes: Re-Constructing Mnemonic Traces of the Past.- Preface Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz.- 2. Performing Memory Through Transience: Architectural and Archival Ruins in Rodolphe Hammadi and Patrick Chamoiseau’s Guyane: Traces-mémoires du bagne [French Guiana: Memory-traces of the Penal Colony] Erica L. Johnson.- 3. Commemorating Contested National Park Landscapes: The Canada 150 Discovery Pass and White Scopic Disremembering Laura McKinley.- 4. Ghosts and Shadows: Art, Urbanscape and Memory after the Fall of the Berlin Wall Caroline Perre.- 5. Transitory Spaces, Memory and Intermediality in Teju Cole’s Everyday is for the Thief and Open City Birgit Neumann and Gabriele Rippl.- 6. The Spatiality of Memory in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex Novels Julia Wiedemann.- Part II Artscapes: Form as Meaning in Commemorative Practice.- Preface Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz.- 7. “Our Landscape is its own Monument”: Using “Muscle Memory” to Make Home Space in Alien Environments in the Work of Jade de Montserrat Alan Rice.- 8. “A ‘silence’ that will not quite stay put”: The Sites and Sights of Landmark Poetics in the Works of Lemm Sissay and Dorothea Smartt Deirdre Osborne.- 9. Rewriting Statues, Battling Amnesia: Frances Presley’s Poetic Commemoration of Historical Women in “Female Figures” Teresa Martínez-Quiles.- 10. Re-Memorializing Space: Simon Armitage’s Still, Photography as an Art Project, and the Western Front in British National/Cultural Memory Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz.- Part III Mythic Urbanscapes and Naturescapes: Undoing Ideologies and Resurfacing Layers of Space.- Preface Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz.- 11. Surveying Topographies of Abuse: Counter-Monumental Impulse and Implicative Spaces of Memory in Monica Ali’s In the Kitchen Lourdes López-Ropero.- 12. The Cityscape of Memory and Transition in Peter Ackroyd’s London Novel Petr Chalupský.- 13. Poetic Spaces of Imagination and Environmental Memory in Ted Hughes’s Remains of Elmet Lorraine Kerslake.- 14. Reforming Visions of New York: Mnemonic Landscapes of the Modern CityRoss J. Wilson.- 15. Toponymic Negotiations, Memorial Arenas: The Politics of Re-Naming All-Black Towns in Toni Morrison’s Paradise and Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt Paula Martín Salván.- 16. Conclusion and Proposals for Further Inquiry Lourdes López-Ropero and Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz.
