Spatial Literary Studies Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination offers a wide range of essays that reframe or transform contemporary criticism by focusing attention, in various ways, on the dynamic relations among space, place, and literature. These essays reflect upon the representation of space and place, whether in the real world, in imaginary universes, or in those hybrid zones where fiction meets reality. Working within or alongside related approaches, such as geocriticism, literary geography, and the spatial humanities, these essays examine the relationship between literary spatiality and different genres or media, such as film or television. The contributors to Spatial Literary Studies draw upon diverse critical and theoretical traditions in disclosing, analyzing, and exploring the significance of space, place, and mapping in literature and in the world, thus making new textual geographies and literary cartographies possible. Robert T. Tally Jr. is NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Texas State University, where he teaches American and world literature. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature 120 Migrant and Tourist Encounters The Ethics of Im/mobility in 21st Century Dominican and Cuban Cultures Andrea Morris 121 Painting Words Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text Beatriz González-Moreno and Fernando González-Moreno 122 The Role of the Literary Canon in the Teaching of Literature Robert J. Aston 123 The New American West in Literature and the Arts A Journey Across Boundaries Edited by Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo 124 Lorca in English A History of Manipulation through Translation Andrew Samuel Walsh 125 War Comics A Postcolonial Perspective Jeanne-Marie Viljoen 126 Trauma and Transformation in African Literature J. Roger Kurtz 127 Spatial Literary Studies Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination Edited by Robert T. Tally Jr. For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com Spatial Literary Studies Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination Edited by Robert T. Tally Jr. First published 2021 by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2021 Taylor & Francis The right of Robert T. Tally Jr. to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Tally, Robert T., Jr., editor. Title: Spatial literary studies : interdisciplinary approaches to space, geography, and the imagination / edited by Robert T Tally Jr. Description: New York : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination offers a wide range of essays that reframe or to transform contemporary criticism by focusing attention, in various ways, on the dynamic relations among space, place, and literature”—Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2020026574 | ISBN 9780367520106 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003056027 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Space in literature. | Geographical perception in literature. | Space perception in literature. | Place (Philosophy) in literature. | Geography in literature. Classification: LCC PN56.S667 S63 2020 | DDC 809/.9332—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020026574 ISBN: 978-0-367-52010-6 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-05602-7 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by Apex CoVantage, LLC For Ying Fang Contents Acknowledgements x Introduction: Spaces of the Text: Literary Studies After the Spatial Turn 1 ROBERT T. TALLY JR. PART I Geocritical Theory and Practice 11 1 Geocriticism at the Crossroads: An Overview 13 MARIYA SHYMCHYSHYN 2 How to Do Narratives With Maps: Cartography as a Performative Act in Gulliver’s Travels and Through the Looking-Glass 31 EMMANUELLE PERALDO AND YANN CALBÉRAC 3 Beyond Binaries and Metaphor: The Counterhegemonic Possibilities of Place 47 JESSICA MAUCIONE PART II Geographies of the Text 61 4 Mallarmé, Poet of the Earthly World: On Spatiality in L’Après-midi d’un Faune 63 ROGÉRIO DE MELO FRANCO viii Contents 5 Zola’s Spatial Explorations of Second Empire Paris 83 JULIA KRÖGER 6 “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”: The Demonic Grounds of M. NourbeSe Philip’s Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence 103 KATE SIKLOSI 7 Rethinking the Beginning: Toni Morrison and the Dramatization of Liminality 117 MICHELLE DREIDING 8 “You’ve been here before?”: Space and Memory in Stephen Poliakoff’s Dramas 130 ELIZABETH ROBERTSON PART III Geography in the Text 147 9 Caves as Anti-Places: Robert Penn Warren’s The Cave and Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God 149 RALPH CRANE AND LISA FLETCHER 10 A Geocritical Approach to the Role of the Desert in Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger and Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient 164 SARAH AGER 11 Isolated Spaces, Fragmented Places: Caryl Phillips’s Ghettos in The Nature of Blood and The European Tribe 175 I. MURAT ÖNER 12 The Eternal Return and the Country/City Dynamic in Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being 191 ADAM R. MCKEE 13 Transgression, Boundaries, and Power: Rethinking the Space of Postcolonial Literature 206 DUSTIN CROWLEY Contents ix PART IV The Problematics of Place 227 14 “Oh, man, I’m nowhere”: Ralph Ellison and the Psychospatial Terrain of Mid-Century Harlem 229 WALTER BOSSE 15 Covington Is the Non-Place for Me: Walker Percy’s Topophilia in the Deserts of Theory and Consumption 240 CHRIS MARGRAVE 16 Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window: Cold War, Spatiality, and the Paranoid Subject 255 BEATRICE KOHLER 17 Locating the Clearing: Contested Boundaries in Beloved and Song of Solomon 271 WILL CUNNINGHAM 18 Remapping the Present: Dave Eggers’s Spatial Virtuality and the Condition of Literature 288 NATHAN FRANK PART V Plus Ultra 315 19 Spatial Literary Studies Versus Literary Geography?: Boundaries and Borders Amidst Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space and Literature 317 ROBERT T. TALLY JR. Notes on Contributors 332 Index 337