Nation and region in modern american and european fiction
Éditeur :
Purdue University Press
ISBN :
9781557534989
Date de publication :
1 déc. 2008
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,4 x 1,5 cm
Poids :
353 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Several canonical works of literary fiction have provided their readers with verbal maps that in their depictions of boundary spaces construct indirect images of national territory and geography. This book analyzes fictional texts as a discursive territoriality that shape readers' notions of (and ambivalence about) national and regional belonging.