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This volume contains papers resulting from an inter-university conference held in Montreal on September 18-19, 2015, which discussed the question of the effectiveness of the humanities in different geopolitical contexts, and which raised the question of how to imagine a future in humanities which advances the geopolitics of knowledge. Some topics covered include the recovery of traumatic memory, constructions of difference, migrant writing, indigenous cultures, community and space, exile, the theory of globalization, and the notion of self-narrative strength. The conference highlights the recent partnership between three research laboratories, Laboratoire sur les récits du soi mobile (Université de Montréal), SenseLab (Concordia University), and Phantasm Centre (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania).

Geocriticism --- Geographical perception in literature --- Romania

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Time, Literature and Cartography after the Spatial Turn argues that the spatial turn in literary studies has the unexplored potential to reinvigorate the ways in which we understand time in literature. Drawing on new readings of time in a range of literary narratives, including Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Adam Barrows explores literature’s ability to cartographically represent the dense and tangled rhythmic processes that constitute lived spaces. Applying the insights of ecological resilience studies, as well as Henri Lefebvre’s late work on rhythm to literary representations of time, this book offers a sustained examination of literature’s “chronometric imaginary”: its capacity to map the temporal relationships between the human and the non-human, the local and the global.

Literature-Philosophy. --- Time in literature. --- Cartography in literature. --- Geocriticism. --- Criticism --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- British literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Literary Theory. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature—Philosophy.

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This book examines how ideas about place and space have been transformed in recent decades. It offers a unique understanding of the ways in which postcolonial writers have contested views of place as fixed and unchanging and are remapping conceptions of world geography, with chapters on cartography, botany and gardens, spice, ecologies, animals and zoos, and cities, as well as reference to the importance of archaeology and travel in such debates. Writers whose work receives detailed attention include Amitav Ghosh, Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje and Robert Kroetsch. Challenging both older colonial and more recent global constructions of place, the book argues for an environmental politics that is attentive to the concerns of disadvantaged peoples, animal rights and ecological issues. Its range and insights make it essential reading for anyone interested in the changing physical and human geography of the contemporary world.

Commonwealth literature (English) --- Geocriticism. --- Space and time in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Space and time as a theme in literature --- Criticism --- Postmodernism (Literature). --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Oriental literature. --- British literature. --- Fiction. --- Postmodern Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Asian Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Post-postmodernism (Literature) --- Asian literature --- Philosophy --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century.