Life Writing and Space - Kilian, Eveline

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Résumé :
How does our ability, desire or failure to locate ourselves within space, and with respect to certain places, effect the construction and narration of our identities? Approaching recordings and interpretations of selves, memories and experiences through the lens of theories of space and place, this book brings the recent spatial turn in the Humanities to bear upon the work of life writing. It shows how concepts of subjectivity draw on spatial ideas and metaphors, and how the grounding and uprooting of the self is understood in terms of place....

Biographie:
Eveline Kilian is Professor of English Literature and Culture at Humboldt-Universit??t zu Berlin, Germany. Hope Wolf is Lecturer in British Modernist Literature at the University of Sussex, UK....

Sommaire:

The Spatial Dimensions of Life Writing

(Eveline Kilian and Hope Wolf)

PART I: RELOCATING AND REIMAGINING THE SELF

1. Multiple Occupancy: Residency and Retrospection in Trollope's Orley Farm and An Autobiography

(Matthew Ingleby)

2. Lost Cities and Found Lives: The 'Geographical Emotions' of Bryher and Walter Benjamin

(Andrew Thacker)

3. Hilary Mantel and the Space of Life Writing

(Neil Vickers)

PART II: TRAVERSING SPACES AND TEXTS

4. Literary Configurations of the Peripatetic

(Helga Schwalm)

5. 'The mystery-magic of foreignness': Mr Isherwood Changes Places

(Eveline Kilian)

6. Critical Topographies in Depression Era Lives

(Martin Klepper and Alexandra Wagner)

PART III: CONTESTED SPACES, PRECARIOUS LIVES

7. Postcolonial Literary Cartography: Writing the Self in Contemporary Algeria

(Elizabeth H. Jones)

8. Inhabiting the In-Between: (Mis)placing Identity in Katherine Mansfield's Notebooks

(Kathrin Tordasi)

9. Isaac Rosenberg's Life in Letters: Between the 'coil of circumstance' and a 'place for poetry'

(Anne-Julia Schoen)

PART IV: SPACE AND THE FORM OF LIFE WRITING

10. Spaces of Intervention: H?l?ne Cixous's Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint

(Fr?d?ric Regard)

11. Strandlines: Eccentric Stories, Thoroughfare Poetics and the Future of the Archive

(Hope Wolf)

12. The Columbus of the Near-at-Hand: The Author as Traveller through the Everyday

(James Attlee)

13. There's No Space Like Home

(Clare Brant)