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1 online resource (253 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies |
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Routledge research in cultural and media studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Contributors; General Introduction; PART I: Contested Histories of Place: Colonialism, Indigeneity, and Marginalization: Introduction; 1 Constructing Sovereignties in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; 2 Colonial and Indigenous Movements toward and through the Landscapes of Swedish Lapland in the Journals of Petrus Læstadius; 3 Geographies of Marginalization and Identity Politics in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss |
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PART II: Environmental Landscapes: Constructing and Consuming Nature: Introduction4 Tasmania: Australia's Cinematic Landscape of Loss; 5 Perceptions of Place in an Irish Energy Landscape on Film; 6 Walking the Mythical Path: Thoreau's Old Marlboro Road; PART III: Cityscapes Movements, Ideology, and Discourse: Introduction; 7 The Country, the City, the Sea, and Girls with Green Eyes: The Films of Desmond Davis and Edna O'Brien; 8 Singing about the City: Imaginations of the City in Telugu Film Songs |
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9 The Dao of the East-West City: Globalizing Identities and Urban Harmonies in Xiaolu Guo's LiteraturePART IV: The Social Construction of Place: Meaningful Imaginaries: Introduction; 10 Contested Spaces: Adichie, Lahiri, and the Politics of Belonging; 11 Vertical Heterotopias: Territories and Power Hierarchies in Tosh Gitonga's Nairobi Half Life; 12 Ideologically Charged Urban and Rural Places in American Movies about HIV/AIDS: Social Constructionism and the Cultural Imaginary in the Late Twentieth Century; PART V: Landscapes of Belonging: Nation and Identity: Introduction |
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13 Between Place and Non-place: Disrupting the Categorizations of the Past in Ida14 Home and the Range: On the Concept of Home in Annie Proulx's Wyoming Stories; 15 Narratives of Water: Changing Places and Contested Spaces in Swedish Literature; Index |
| Summary |
Narratives of place link people and geographic location with a cultural imaginary through literature and visual narration. Contemporary literature and film often frame narratives with specific geographic locations, which saturate the narrative with cultural meanings in relation to natural and man-made landscapes. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to interrogate such connections to probe how place is narrativized in literature and film. Utilizing close readings of specific filmic and literary texts, all chapters serve to tease out cultural and historical meanings in respect of human engagement with landscapes. Always mindful of national, cultural and topographical specificity, the book is structured around five core themes: Contested Histories of Place; Environmental Landscapes; Cityscapes; The Social Construction of Place; and Landscapes of Belonging |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Motion pictures -- Criticism and interpretation
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Motion pictures.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Native American.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
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cultural geography.
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cultural studies.
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film studies.
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interdisciplinary literary studies.
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landscapes.
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media studies.
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screen studies.
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space.
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urban studies.
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Motion pictures
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Møllegaard, Kirsten
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| ISBN |
9781351013826 |
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1351013823 |
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9781351013819 |
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1351013815 |
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