Towards a Political Literary Geography

Authors

  • Laurie McRae Andrew Royal Holloway, University of London

Keywords:

politics, spatial event, ideology, knowable community, literary geography

Abstract

Literary geographical work to date has left the political aspects of literary space under-examined. How might we explicitly frame the question of a political literary geography? This position paper draws on Raymond Williams' idea of the 'knowable community' of the literary text in order to sketch possible directions for such an avenue.

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Saunders, A. (2013) ‘The Spatial Event of Writing: John Galsworthy and the Creation of Fraternity.’ Cultural Geographies, 20(3), pp. 285-298.

Tutuola, A. (1961) [1952] The Palm Wine Drinkard. London: Faber.

Williams, R. (1977) Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Published

2018-02-11

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Section

Thinking Space