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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- PART ONE: MAPPING SPACES.- Chapter 2: Spatial Existences: The Significance of Land and Nature for Native Americans.- Chapter 3: Mapping Space and Race in The Los Angeles Times (1880-1932).- Chapter 4: Rockwellian Space: From War Propaganda to the People’s Freedoms.- Chapter 5: The Edenic Home: A Spatial Reflection of the American Dream in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture.- Chapter 6: Remapping John Quinn’s Poetic Oregon Trail: A Poetry of Travel, Observations and Mapmaking.- Chapter 7: Digital Space – the New Medium of Life and Life Writing.- Chapter 8: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter” and “The Birth-Mark”: Between Imaginary Geographies, Ecophobia, and the Trans-Corporeal Female Body.- Chapter 9: American Landscapes and Sites of Imagination in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita.- Chapter 10: Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachian Beginnings of His Comprehensive Cartographic Design.- Chapter 11: Mapping (the) US by a Non-American Black.- PART THREE: EXPLORING SPACES.- Chapter 12: Nocturnal Dead Zones: Socio-political Organization of the Urban Night in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.- Chapter 13: Labyrinth of Non-Closure: Getting Lost (and Found) in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.- Chapter 14: Spaces of Psychic Fracture in Post-Confessional American Poetry.- Chapter 15: Re-Mapping Gendered Spaces in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours.- Chapter 16: Spatial Readings and their Feminist Dimension in Victory City by Salman Rushdie.
