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Book SynopsisSpatial Literary Studies in China explores the range of vibrant and innovative research being done in China today. Chinese scholars have been exploring spatially oriented literary criticism in two different and mutually reinforcing directions: the first has focused on the study of Western literature, especially U.S. and European texts and theory, and the second has examined Chinese cultures, texts, and spaces. This collection of essays demonstrates Chinese scholars’ insightful interpretation, evaluation, and innovative application of international spatial analyses, theories, and methodologies, as well as their inspiring exploration and reconstruction of distinctively Chinese critical and theoretical discourses. For the first time in English, the essays in this volume demonstrate the vitality of literary geography, geocriticism, and the spatial humanities in China in the twenty-first century.
Table of ContentsPart I Spatial Theory and Technology1. Spatial Literary Studies in China: A Brief History2. An Exploration of the Problems of Space and Spatialization3. Mobility Studies: A New Direction in Spatial Literary Studies4. Developing the Chinese Academic Map Publishing Platform5. Space: The Keyword of Art History Study6. The Attributes of British and American Literary Maps: An Exploration7. Spatial Narrative in Fiction: “Spatialization” of Fiction NarrativePart II Studies in Literary Geography8. The Construction of Academic System in a New Literary Geography9. Regional Aesthetics and the Historical Formation of the Image of Jiangnan in the Literature of Six Dynasties10. American National Parks: Symbolic Landscapes11. Walking Landscape: Spatial Experience and Imagination of Modernity in the Overseas Travelogues in the Late Qing Dynasty12. Introducing Literary Geography to the History of Chinese Literature13. Spatial Metaphors and the Literary Cartography of Shanghai in Modern Chinese NovelsPart III Geocritical Studies and Textual Analysis14. The Middle Place: Mediation and Heterotopia in Nick Joaquín’s
The Woman Who Had Two Navels15. Lewis’s
Babbitt, Literary Maps, and the Production of Space in American Cities16. Pretext, Embedded-Text, Subtext: On the Landscape Narratives of Willa Cather’s
One of Ours17. Embedded Geographies in GUO Pu’s “River
Fu”18. The Source of the Terror: Interpreting the Liminal Space in Carson McCullers’s
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter19. Antebellum Literary Cartography and the Construction of an American Oceanic Space
