[Commlist] New book: Narratives of Place in Literature and Film

Title: NARRATIVES OF PLACE IN LITERATURE AND FILM

Edited by: Steven Allen and Kirsten Møllegaard

Published: Routledge, 2019

ISBN-Hardback: 9781138499928

ISBN-eBook: 9781351013833

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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.


The bookbrings together considerations of place in respect of Africa, 
Asia, Australasia, mainland and offshore Europe, and North America to 
offer an important international perspective. Topics covered include, 
amongst others, Annie Proulx's Wyoming Stories, the writings of Leslie 
Marmon Silko and Sherman Alexie, and narratives of water in Swedish 
literature, as well as the depiction of landscapes of loss in Tasmanian 
films, the functioning of songs from Telugu cinema, and the construction 
of place and non-place in/Ida/ (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2012).

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For further details on this publication, and a full list of the 
chapters, please see 
https://www.routledge.com/Narratives-of-Place-in-Literature-and-Film/Allen-Mollegaard/p/book/9781138499928


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