ID - 148713464 TI - Claiming space : locations and orientations in world literatures AU - Ekelund, Bo G. AU - Mahmutovic, Adnan AU - Wulff, Helena PY - 2022 SN - 9781501374128 9781501374111 9781501374135 1501374125 PB - London : Bloomsbury Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Place (Philosophy) in literature. KW - Liminality in literature. KW - Space and time in literature. KW - Cultural Anthropology, Literary Theory, Literary Studies, Comparative Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:148713464 AB - "This open access book explores literary works and practices - always existing in the dynamic relation between locations and orientations - in a series of carefully designed case studies. Explicitly expressed or implied, manifesting itself sometimes as dislocation and disorientation, the claiming of space by any symbolic means necessary is revealed as a constant effect of literary endeavors. In dialogue with geopolitics of culture, sociology and anthropology, attention to literary locations and orientations brings spatial particularity into the study of world literatures. These case studies demonstrate that four key terms (cosmopolitan, vernacular, location, orientation) can frame analyses of very different types of literary acts and texts in the contemporary period, allowing for distinctions that are not captured within the grids of other conceptual pairs like centre-periphery, local-global, postcolonial-metropolitan, North-South. With this framing, expressive practices in a wide range of regions - including Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Pacific - are analysed in ways that bring out how spatiality is at stake in the cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamic"-- ER -