Full Description
Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts analyzes the impact migrations, both internal and external, have on Europe's literary and visual representations in the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The volume aims to subvert a centripetal reading of European cultural production by including peripheral thinkers, writers, and visual artists operating in transcultural contexts. The essays highlight and investigate the fertile artistic discourses generated in the spatial peripheries outside of Europe or its inner peripheries. The volume addresses the need for geocritical readings that overcome the engrained dichotomy of centers-peripheries. By doing so, the book brings a more nuanced approach to national literatures and proposes the idea of "contact zones of imaginative interaction".
Contents
Introduction: Centers-Peripheries; Literary, Cinematic, and Artistic Spaces.- Artistic Practices at the Border: Waiting and Crossing in the Context of Escape and Exile.- Revolutionary Peripheries: Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Cinema of Borgata".- Inner Periphery? The Rhine from Borderland to Interzone.- Enrico Pea and the Awareness of Never-Ending Detachment (Alexandria, Egypt 1896-1914).- From Mexico to Madrid: Thirdspace in Concha Méndez's Poemas: Sombras y sueños.- Toward the Periphery of Europe: Erich Maria Remarque's Novel The Night in Lisbon.- Najat El Hachmi: Away from Patriarchy, Hijab, and Cultural Relativism.- Doctor Möbius, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Line.
