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colonialism
cosmological geography
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cultural studies
Ellen Churchill Semple
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expatriatism
geography
geopoetics
Geopoetics of Modernism
geopolitics
Gertrude Stein
global
Harlem Renaissance
imperialism
interdisciplinary
James Joyce
Langston Hughes
literary criticism
Mary Somerville
modernism
National Geographic
orientalism
parataxis
poetry
possibilism
race
Rebecca Walsh
space
spazio vitale
transnational
transnationalism
Walt Whitman
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- ISBN 9780813060514
- Weight: 415g
- Dimensions: 158 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2015
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Geopoetics of Modernism is the first book to illuminate the links between American modernism and the geographic discourse of the time. Rebecca Walsh explores Walt Whitman, Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes, and H.D.’s engagements with contemporary geographic theories and sources—including the cosmological geography of Alexander von Humboldt and Mary Somerville, the environmental determinism of Ellen Churchill Semple, and mainstream textbooks and periodicals—which informed the formal and political dimensions of their work.
Walsh argues that the dominant geographic paradigms of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries gave authority to experimental writers who were breaking with other forms of authority, enabling them to create transnational forms of belonging on the exhilarating landscape of nations, continents, and the globe. By examining modernism alongside environmental determinist geography, she maps a poetic terrain where binaries such as west versus non-west or imperial center versus colonial periphery are destabilized. The Geopoetics of Modernism reveals the geographic terms through which American modernist poetry interrogated prevailing ideas of orientalism, primitivism, and American exceptionalism.
Walsh argues that the dominant geographic paradigms of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries gave authority to experimental writers who were breaking with other forms of authority, enabling them to create transnational forms of belonging on the exhilarating landscape of nations, continents, and the globe. By examining modernism alongside environmental determinist geography, she maps a poetic terrain where binaries such as west versus non-west or imperial center versus colonial periphery are destabilized. The Geopoetics of Modernism reveals the geographic terms through which American modernist poetry interrogated prevailing ideas of orientalism, primitivism, and American exceptionalism.
Rebecca Walsh is assistant professor of English at North Carolina State University, USA.
