Land and Identity : : Theory, Memory, and Practice / / edited by Christine Berberich, Neil Campbell, and Robert Hudson.

This collection of essays aims to investigate the complex issues surrounding contemporary cultural discourses on land and identity – their production, construction, and reconstruction across a range of different texts and materials. The chapters offer disciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches o...

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Superior document:Spatial practices, 13
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, 2012.
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Spatial Practices 13.
Physical Description:1 online resource (305 p.)
Notes:Conference proceedings.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Framing and Reframing Land and Identity / Christine Berberich , Neil Campbell and Robert Hudson
  • Landscape, Land and Identity: A Performative Consideration / David Crouch
  • Nature Qua Identity: Nature, Culture and Relational Integrity / Fran Speed
  • The Geopolitical Picturesque / Donna Landry
  • Eschatological Landscape / Kirby Farrell
  • Cities Under a Sky of Mud: Landscapes of Mourning in Holocaust Texts / Jenni Adams
  • “This Time and Now”: Identity and Belonging in the Irish Diaspora: The Irish in Britain and Second-Generational Silence / Moy McCrory
  • “And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present nor the past”: Recovering Identity in A Month in the Country / Elsa Cavalié
  • Beyond the Gaps: Postmodernist Representations of the Metropolis / Monica Germanà
  • “It is always another world”: Mapping the Global Imaginary in William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition / Brian Jarvis
  • The Shore is Not a Beach / Alex Lockwood
  • Lines of Flight: Unframing Land, Unframing Identity – Two Speculations / Christine Berberich and Neil Campbell
  • Index.