Spatial Representations of British Identities

Edited by Merle Tönnies and Heike Buschmann. This volume of concentrates on the relationship between representations of space and the formation of personal and group identities. Resulting from the 2009 conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures at Paderborn University, the papers share a special focus on the ways in which literary texts construct and/or undermine coherent spaces and thereby shape their protagonists' search for a functioning sense of self. In addition, the portrayal and reading of spaces in other (particularly visual) media will also play an important role. Readers are thereby offered a comprehensive and comparative overview of spatially grounded identity representations in the British Isles, with a temporal focus on the period from the 19th to the 21st century. - Contents: Patricia Duncker: The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet. On Writing "Hallucinating Foucault". - Mark Hall: Longing for the Light. Darkness, Dislocation and Spaces of Exile. - Wolfgang Funk: Puzzling Memories, Displacing Ideologies. Utopias of National Identity. - Florian Kläger: Reading Iconic Spaces. The Public House in the Contemporary Condition-of-England Novel. - Sandra Heinen: Locating National Identity. The Representation of Englishness in Peter Ackroyd's "Thames: Sacred River" (2007). - Sonja Frenzel: London Identities. Gendering the Urban Body in 'Fin-de-Siècle' Urban Poetry. - Elke Schuch: The Importance of Geography and Space for Identity Formation. Liverpool. - Ingrid von Rosenberg: Changing Faces of a Region and the Growth of New Place Identities. Reflections of the Structural Change on the Land- and City scapes of the North East and the Effects on Its People. - Gabriele Linke: Subjectivity and Place in Contemporary Scottish Autobiography. The Case of Glasgow. - Christiane Bimberg: Urban Space, City Life and Identity Construction in Virginia Woolf's "Night and Day". The Fusion of Material and Mental Landscapes. - Timo Lothmann/Antje Schumacher: Conceptual Metaphors Revisited. The Construction of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Railway Poetry. - Yousef Awad: »The Other-Others? Hidden Arabs«. Fadia Faqir's "My Name is Salma" and the Experiences of Arab Women Immigrants to Britain. - Elahe Haschemi Yekani: Gay Melancholy. Lost Spaces in Alan Hollinghurst's "The Line of Beauty". - Simon Dickel: Do the Queer Thing. Redefining Contested Spaces in Isaac Julien's "Young Soul Rebels" and "The Attendant". 250 Seiten mit 7 Abb., broschiert (Anglistik und Englischunterricht; Band 75/Universitätsverlag Winter 2012)

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