Reconfigured spheres

This collection of essays looks at literary representations of space - physical, psychological political and cultural - from a perspective that is at once comparative and feminist. Combining historical analysis with literary theory, contributors explore changing definitions of woman's place through such themes as exile and exclusion, property and territoriality, and body as interface between individual and communal identities. They show how maps of gender overlap with maps of status and how images of separate gender, class and racial terrain have often insidiously helped define social relations and group identities. Embracing Adrienne Rich's definition of body as the geography closest in, book examines relationship between gender and geography in a broad array of texts and contexts, from early novel to contemporary Caribbean and Chicana literature. The essays analyse earlier movement of 18th- and 19th-century women in public and private arenas as well as efforts of 20th-century women to redefine a symbolic feminine space, to engage political issues and to recover a postcolonial sense of local place

Aesthetics · Art · Cultural geography · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist theory · Human geography · Ideology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sense of place · Separate spheres · Social science · Sociology · Territoriality · Visual arts · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Feminist literary criticism · General · Languages & Literatures · Literary · Literary Criticism · Literature - General · Setting (Literature) · Space and time in literature · Special Interest · Travel · Women in literature