{"id":1355,"date":"2023-08-02T12:18:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T10:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ilsileno.it\/geographiesoftheanthropocene\/?page_id=1355"},"modified":"2024-04-03T10:48:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T08:48:29","slug":"call-for-book-chapters-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ilsileno.it\/geographiesoftheanthropocene\/call-for-book-chapters-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Book Chapters | 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Those wishing to propose a collective volume<\/strong> should prepare a 500 words abstract.
The proposal must seek to address the aims and scopes of the book series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normally, two collective volumes are published each year, in the months of April\/May and November\/December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those wishing to propose a monographic volume<\/strong> should prepare a 500 words abstract and a provisional index.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proposals must be sent to the following address:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-mail: geographiesofanthropocene@gmail.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Call for Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Literature, Geography, and the Poetics of Space: Tracing Historical Narratives Across Literary Landscapes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Edited by<\/p>\n

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Sara Ansaloni<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Department of Romance Languages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States)<\/p>\n

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Eleonora Gioia<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy)<\/p>\n

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Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n

we would like to inform you that the call for chapter contributions to the \u201cGeographies of the Anthropocene\u201d book series for the collective volume titled: Literature, Geography, and the Poetics of Space: Tracing Historical Narratives Across Literary Landscapes <\/em><\/strong>(Language: English), edited by Sara Ansaloni (Department of Romance Languages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States) and Eleonora Gioia (Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy) is now open.<\/p>\n

Scope<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

The field of literary geography, an interdisciplinary branch of human geography, has undergone significant evolution over time. Its approaches reflect various intellectual movements, encompassing regionalism, humanism, radicalism, and quantitativism. Since the 1970s, geographers have been more and more interested in exploring literature as a critical response to quantitative orthodoxy, aiming to reorient geographical research around human experiences and perceptions of place. This transition, from conceiving space as external coordinates to recognizing its dynamic and relational nature, has been facilitated by a growing humanistic emphasis on the subjective experiences of place and the cultural significance embedded within specific landscapes.<\/p>\n

The emergence of Brosseau\u2019s 1994 review essay in Progress in Human Geography<\/em> marked a pivotal moment in the advancement of literary geography, internationalizing the field and emphasizing the space-generating aspects of narrative. Subsequent interdisciplinary efforts, such as the 2004 conference of the Royal Geographical Society<\/em> of British Geographers<\/em> with a session on \u201cTextual Spaces, Spatial Texts\u201d have further bridged geography and literary theory.<\/p>\n

The \u201cspatial turn\u201d in cultural studies and the \u201ccultural turn\u201d in geography of the late 1990s and early 2000s increased the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and theories. This phenomenon, initially identified by Edward Soja in 1989, has drawn on various philosophical and geographical concepts, highlighting the contributions of Henri Lefebvre (1974), Gilles Deleuze and F\u00e9lix Guattari (1980), and Michel Foucault (1984). Seminal works like Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces<\/em> (Westphal, 2007) and The Ecocriticism Reader<\/em> (Glotfelty, Fromm, 1996) have enriched the discourse on literature and geography, inspiring scholars to adopt diverse analytical methods including geocriticism, geopoetry, ecocriticism, literary cartography, and psychogeography.<\/p>\n

Themes explored at the intersection of literature and geography encompass a wide array of topics, including representations of space and place in literary texts, analyses of urban and natural landscapes, environmental concerns, and investigations into identity formation and geopolitical narratives. This interdisciplinary approach facilitates cross-fertilization among disciplines such as geography, ecology, psychology, history, and literature, encompassing both their representational and creative dimensions.<\/p>\n

Interested colleagues are encouraged to submit abstracts, with a maximum of 500 words. Topics of interest in the call include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n