Chinese scholars have been exploring spatially oriented literary criticism in two different and mutually reinforcing directions: the first has focused on the study of Western literature, especially U.S. and European texts and theory, and the second has examined Chinese cultures, texts, and spaces.

Part I Spatial Theory and Technology.- 1. Spatial Literary Studies in China: A Brief History.- 2. An Exploration of the Problems of Space and Spatialization.- 3. Mobility Studies: A New Direction in Spatial Literary Studies.- 4. Developing the Chinese Academic Map Publishing Platform.- 5. Space: The Keyword of Art History Study.- 6. The Attributes of British and American Literary Maps: An Exploration.- 7. Spatial Narrative in Fiction: “Spatialization” of Fiction Narrative.- Part II Studies in Literary Geography.- 8. The Construction of Academic System in a New Literary Geography.- 9. Regional Aesthetics and the Historical Formation of the Image of Jiangnan in the Literature of Six Dynasties.- 10. American National Parks: Symbolic Landscapes.- 11. Walking Landscape: Spatial Experience and Imagination of Modernity in the Overseas Travelogues in the Late Qing Dynasty.- 12. Introducing Literary Geography to the History of Chinese Literature.- 13. Spatial Metaphors and the Literary Cartography of Shanghai in Modern Chinese Novels.- Part III Geocritical Studies and Textual Analysis.- 14. The Middle Place: Mediation and Heterotopia in Nick Joaquín’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels.- 15. Lewis’s Babbitt, Literary Maps, and the Production of Space in American Cities.- 16. Pretext, Embedded-Text, Subtext: On the Landscape Narratives of Willa Cather’s One of Ours.- 17. Embedded Geographies in GUO Pu’s “River Fu”.- 18. The Source of the Terror: Interpreting the Liminal Space in Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.- 19. Antebellum Literary Cartography and the Construction of an American Oceanic Space.

Spatial Literary Studies in China explores the range of vibrant and innovative research being done in China today. Chinese scholars have been exploring spatially oriented literary criticism in two different and mutually reinforcing directions: the first has focused on the study of Western literature, especially U.S. and European texts and theory, and the second has examined Chinese cultures, texts, and spaces. This collection of essays demonstrates Chinese scholars’ insightful interpretation, evaluation, and innovative application of international spatial analyses, theories, and methodologies, as well as their inspiring exploration and reconstruction of distinctively Chinese critical and theoretical discourses. For the first time in English, the essays in this volume demonstrate the vitality of literary geography, geocriticism, and the spatial humanities in China in the twenty-first century.

“Spatial Literary Studies in China is a well-made collection compounded of hopefulness and empirical insight that can help various disciplines grasp how we might begin to engage with literary studies in this transnational moment to understand issues of space, place, nation, and identity in a perilously globalizing world we face across shared pressures and tensions of the present and future.” (Rob Sean Wilson, Professor of Literature, Creative Writing, and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz)

Introduces an English-speaking audience to the influential scholarship emerging from China Offers a broad cross-section of spatially oriented literary criticism Reexamines traditional and new works of Chinese literature in light of the spatial turn

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