Contemporary Writing and the Politics of Space

David Walton is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Cultural Studies at the University of Murcia. He is a founding member, and currently President, of the Iberian Association of Cultural Studies (IBACS). He is the author of the volumes Cultural Studies: Learning Through Practice and Doing Cultural Theory and editor, with J. A. Suárez, of Culture, Space, and Power: Blurred Lines.Juan A. Suárez teaches American studies and American literature at the University of Murcia. He is the author of the books Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars; Pop Modernism; and Jim Jarmusch; and editor, with David Walton, of the volume Culture, Space, and Power: Blurred Lines. He is currently one of the Principal Investigators of the HERA/European Commission-funded project «Cruising the Seventies: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures».

• CONTENTS: Juan Antonio Suárez/David Walton: Writing and the Politics of Space: An Introduction – David Griffiths: Coercive Hospital Spaces in Pat Barker’s The Regeneration Trilogy – Ángel Galdón Rodríguez: Metropolitan Isolation in Dystopian Literature – María Luisa Pascual Garrido: The Island Space in Film Adaptations of The Tempest: On the Invisibility of Borders – Clara Pallejá-López: The House: Friend or Foe? Buildings, Dwellings, and Home in Fiction – Laura Torres-Zúñiga: Thresholds of Abjection: Identity and Space in Tennessee Williams’s Fiction – Ana Rull Suárez: Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day: Sociopolitical Suspicion and Double Spaces of Espionage – Ángel Mateos-Aparicio Martín-Albo: «Perfect Cities, Permanent Hells»: The Ideological Coordinates of Urban Space in Postmodern Science Fiction – Isabel Santaularia i Capdevila: They Aren’t the Big Bad Communists We Were Raised to Think They Were? The Representation of Russia in Contemporary Crime Fiction and Thrillers – Martyna Bryla: Charting the Liminal Geographies of Eastern Europe in Joyce Carol Oates’s Short Stories – A. Robert Lee: Bound and Unbound: Figurations of Time-Space in African American Authorship – Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo: Reconfiguring the Epic Space in Anne Waldman’s The Iovis Trilogy – Tomás Monterrey: The Literary Geography of a Border Zone: The Canary Islands in Ewing Campbell’s Afoot in the Garden of Enchantments.