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Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies

Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Critical Studies, a collection of essays edited by Robert T. Tally Jr, will appear in October 2011 and is now available for pre-order. Here's the Table of Contents:

Foreword; B.Westphal
Introduction: On Geocriticism; R.T.Tally Jr.

PART I: GEOCRITICISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

Geocriticism, Geopoetics, Geophilosophy, and Beyond; E.Prieto
The Presencing of Place in Literature: Towards an Embodied Topopoetic Mode of Reading; S.Pultz Moslund

PART II: PLACES, SPACES, TEXTS
Redrawing the Map: An Interdisciplinary Geocritical Approach to Australian Cultural Narratives; P.Mitchell & J.Stadler
Textual Forests: The Representation of Landscape in Latin American Narratives; M.Mercedes Ortiz Rodriguez
Land of Racial Confluence and Spatial Accessibility: Claude McKay's Sense of Mediterranean Place; M.K.Walonen
The Shores of Aphrodite's Island: Cyprus and European Travel Memory; A.Eche
Jefferson's Ecologies of Exception: Geography, Race, and American Empire in the Age of Globalization; C.M.Battista

PART III: TRANSGRESSIONS, MOVEMENTS, BORDER CROSSINGS

Geopolitics, Landscape, and Guilt in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Literature; R.Weaver-Hightower
"Amid all the maze, uproar and novelty": The Limits of Other-Space in Sister Carrie; R.Collins
Furrowing the Soil With His Pen: Derek Walcott's Topography of the English Countryside; J.Johnson
Global Positioning from Spain: Mapping Identity in African American Narratives of Travel; M.C.Ramos
The Space of Transgression: A Geocritical Study of Albert Camus's "The Adulterous Wife"; B.La Juez
Affective Mapping in Lyric Poetry; H.Yeung

Index