Cultural Geography and the Place of the Literary

Blair, Sara

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“…Thus, while literary critics do work with geographical theory, they do not often refer to substantive work on literary texts produced by geographers, and even the key reviews of work in the field are rarely mentioned. Sara Blair's (1998) ‘Cultural Geography and the Place of the Literary’, for example, despite being expressly directed toward the topic of crossover work in geography and literature, cites a wide range of work by geographers and spatial theorists (Lefebvre, for example, Harvey, Massey, Sassen, Soja) but makes no reference to work on literary topics published in geographical journals, not even citing the review articles by Pocock (1981b) and Brosseau (1994). Similarly, Andrew Thacker's article ‘The Idea of a Critical Literary Geography’, published in the same issue of New Formations as Ogborn's review, while it expresses enthusiasm for ‘the growth of a genuinely interdisciplinary field that studies the interface between texts and spaces’, and emphasizes the impact on literary and cultural studies of work by Harvey and Soja, makes no reference to Pocock, Lando, Brosseau, or Sharp (or Blair, working in American literary history, while Thacker is mainly engaging with the UK and European literary modernism).…”

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Text as It Happens: Literary Geography

Hones

2008

Geography Compass

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This article reviews the current situation in geographical work with fiction in the context of an explicitly spatial view of the writing-reading nexus as a contextualized and always emerging geographical event. It argues that this way of conceptualizing the text events of both narrative fiction and academic knowledge production provides a way of understanding and dealing with incompatible literary interpretations and also with irreconcilable approaches to literary geography. This openness to multiplicity develops from the point that text events are not only relational by nature and generated within social contexts in the initial encounter of author, text, and reader, but also only become publicly accessible when subsequently articulated within the mediating context of a particular social situation. The article proposes that literary geography as a collective endeavor can be developed and consolidated through an appreciation of the varying contexts within which geographically oriented work with fiction is performed and articulated.1302 Text as it happens: literary geography

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Text as It Happens: Literary Geography

Hones

2008

Geography Compass

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“…The tradition of literary geography can be traced back to the late 19th Century, but the idea flourished in real terms during the 1970s with its interdisciplinary approaches (Singh, 2003). Works of Pocock (1981), Lando (1996), Blair (1998), Hones (2008), and Saunders (2010) have shaped, reshaped, and extended the conception of literary geography since then. And presently, it is emerging as a branch of social science capable of bringing history, geography, and literature studies together.…”

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Indian Coal Mines in Hundred Years Old Fiction and Now: A Geographical Analysis

Ghosh

2023

SACI

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This study attempts to construe the first-ever coalmine-oriented Bengali fiction from a social, historical, and geographic perspective. Sailjananda Mukhopadhyay wrote Koylakuthi (the coal miners’ office) in 1922, representing Bengal’s coal mines. This study aims to reconstruct the miners’ society from the early 20th Century with narratives from this story and examine the societal challenges and changes a hundred years apart. A comparative study of the mining geo-cultural landscape of the 1920s Bengal and its contemporary counterpart is carried out. Changed geography, technology, and community are observed. And it reveals that areal expansion of the coalfields has increased production, and technological advancement has increased the safety and security of the miner class. However, the labour structure, class and caste hierarchy, and patriarchal mindset have hardly changed.

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“…1 1 See Brian Jarvis’‘Cultural Geography and American Studies’ in the Literature Compass series for an introduction to this key source of spatial studies, as well as Sara Blair’s account in American Literary History of the field’s intervention with literature: ‘Cultural Geography and the Place of the Literary’. …”

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Literary Criticism’s Road Scholars at the American Century’s Turn

Larson¹

2009

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Literary scholarship’s spatial turn has produced a number of studies exploring the site of the road and its automobile culture. This article surveys seven monographs published between 1996 and 2007 that analyze works of American fiction and nonfiction for their representation of highway narratives. These works (by Ronald Primeau, Roger Casey, Kris Lackey, Rowland Sherrill, Deborah Paes de Barros, Katie Mills, and Deborah Clarke) explore the genre’s rendering of mobility, identity, and politics on the 20th‐century’s roads of America. The essay compares these analyses for their critical methods and offers a sense of what work remains in the ongoing study of road narratives.

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Cultural Geography and the Place of the Literary

Cited by 52 publications

References 6 publications

Text as It Happens: Literary Geography

Text as It Happens: Literary Geography

Indian Coal Mines in Hundred Years Old Fiction and Now: A Geographical Analysis

Literary Criticism’s Road Scholars at the American Century’s Turn

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