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This interdisciplinary collection explores the diverse relationships between the frequently ignored and inherently ambiguous hinterlands and their manifestations in literature and culture. Moving away from perspectives that emphasize the marginality of hinterlands and present them as devoid of agency and "cultural currency", this collection assembles a series of original essays using various modes of engagement to reconceptualize hinterlands and highlight their semiotic complexity. Apart from providing a reassessment of hinterlands in terms of their geocultural significance, this book also explores hinterlands through such concepts as nostalgia, heterotopia, identity formation, habitation, and cognitive mapping, with reference to a wide geographical field. Literary and filmic revisions of familiar hinterlands, such as the Australian outback, Alberta prairie, and Arizona desert, are juxtaposed in this volume with representations of such little-known European hinterlands as Lower Silesia and Ukraine, and the complicated political dimension of First World War internment camps is investigated with regard to Kapuskasing (Ontario). Rural China and the Sussex Downs are examined here as writers' retreats. Inner-city hinterlands in Haiti, India, Morocco, and urban New Jersey take on new meaning when contrasted with the vast hinterlands of megacities like Johannesburg and Los Angeles. The spectrum of diverse approaches to hinterlands helps to reinforce their multilayered and multivocal nature as spaces that defy clear categorization.
Contents
List of Contributors
Editors' Introduction - Hinterlands: A Return of the Outside
Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak, Marcin Tereszewski, Dominika Fe
rens, and Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice
Part I: Hinterlands as Movement
Chapter 1
The Transnational Hinterlands of Los Angeles in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange
Dominika Ferens
Chapter 2
Mapping Identity and Memory in Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow
Sophie Kriegel
Chapter 3
Decrepitude, Dispossession, Poetry, and a No-place as a Site of Weak Resistance: 21st-century America as a Hinterland in the films Paterson and Nomadland
Zofia Kolbuszewska
Part II: Heterotopic Hinterlands
Chapter 4
Spaces of Identity in Morocco: Maureen F. McHugh's Nekropolis
Marta Komsta
Chapter 5
Unravelling the Haitian Hinterland as a Twofold Space: Dany Laferrière and Yanick Lahens
Izabela Poręba
Chapter 6
Haven, Rebellion, Revelation: Australian Hinterlands as Heterotopias in Peter Carey's Novels
Barbara Klonowska
Chapter 7
The Ethical Call from the Hinterlands: Conceptualizing Waste in J. G Ballard's High-Rise and Concrete Island
Marcin Tereszewski
Chapter 8
Post-anthropocentric Hinterlands: Susan Straight's California
Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice
Part III: Regenerative and Nostalgic Hinterlands
Chapter 9
(Re)constructing Identity along the Road through the Chinese Hinterland: Gao Xingjian's Soul Mountain and Ma Jian's Red Dust
Raffael Weger
Chapter 10
Chenkalchoola: Reconfiguring the Social Imaginary of an Indian Hinterland
S. M. Mithuna and Maya Vinai
Chapter 11
Neither Peace nor Haven: Sussex as Virginia Woolf's Imagined Hinterland
Paulina Pająk
Part IV: Hinterlands Revisited and Reimagined
Chapter 12
Lower Silesian Hinterlands: Revisiting and Re-inhabiting the "Recovered Territories"
Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak
Chapter 13
"There Was Nothing": Return Journeys and the Creation of (Multi)directional Postmemories in 21st-Century Anglophone Novels
Mona Becker
Chapter 14
Ukrainians in Canadian Hinterlands: Children's and Young Adult Historical Fiction on the World War I Internment
Mateusz Świetlicki
Chapter 15
Internal Hinterland: Post-Racial Geography of Los Angeles in Paul Beatty's The Sellout
Sascha Pöhlmann
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