This book moves beyond conventional conceptions of space and place to explore how the spatial imagination has informed our postmodern mapping of literature culture history geography and politics In this volume scholars from different academic fields contest new territories for critical expression venturing into a geocritical discussion of notions of identity borders territory cognitive geographies glocal cultural mobility gendered spaces post colonial cartographies and spaces of resistance These brilliant discussions of the postmodern dialectics of space and place invite a reappraisal of the value of space in our social political and historical realities thus extending the geographical imagination beyond its physical and territorial manifestations and investigating its hitherto uncharted spiritual psychic emotional literary and symbolic terrains Bringing together theoretical and critical contributions in the fields of culture history politics and literature this engaging work invites readers to think geocritically about the significance of space and place in the postmodern age It represents essential reading for students critics and scholars from various academic fields and disciplines including history geography cultural studies anthropology political science literature and critical theory

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