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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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The contributors to Ecocriticism and Geocriticism survey the overlapping territories of these critical practices, demonstrating through their diversity of interests, as well as their range of topics, texts, periods, genres, methods, and perspectives, just how rich and varied ecocritical and geocritical approaches can be. As diffuse 'schools' of criticism, ecocriticism and geocriticism represent two relatively recent discourses through which literary and cultural studies have placed renewed emphasis on the lived environment, social and natural spaces, spatiotemporality, ecology, history, and geography. These loosely defined practices have also fostered politically engaged inquiries into the ways that humans not only represent, but also organize the spaces and places in which they, their fellow humans, and many other forms of life must dwell. These essays exemplify the ways in which critics may bring environmental and spatial literary studies to bear on each other, enabling readers to looks at both literature and their surroundings differently.

Ecocriticism --- Geocriticism --- Science. --- Ecocriticism in literature. --- Geocriticism. --- Literature and society --- History

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Comparative literature --- Comparative literature. --- comparative literature --- literary theory --- translation studies --- cultural studies --- postcolonial studies --- geocriticism

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Literature's Sensuous Geographies offers a study of place in postcolonial literature and theory from other than the socio-cultural and political angles that have traditionally dominated the field. Moslund explores "sensuous geographies" (something that has so far been neglected in the study of place in literature) as opening up other than discursive relations to the world - other, non-territorial modes of being-in-the-world. The book develops a sense-aesthetic mode of reading (a "topo-poetics") and in close-readings of Conrad, Blixen, Coetzee and Achebe (among others), Moslund explores dimensions in literature that open up the place world as produced by desubjectified intensities of smell, sound, sight, touch, etc. Sense-aesthetic qualities of literary language are shown in this way as radically challenging the rationalizing logic of modernity (the inner logic of imperialism), at the heart of which Moslund identifies a disciplining of the senses and a reduction of the sensuous openness of reality. With his study of sensuous geographies in literature, Moslund makes a notable shift in the field of postcolonial studies and geocriticism from discourse analysis to aesthetic analysis.

Geography and literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Geocriticism. --- Place (Philosophy) in literature. --- Senses and sensation in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Geocriticism --- Place (Philosophy) in literature --- Senses and sensation in literature --- Geography and literature

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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.