Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture - 9781138547902

Name: Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture - 9781138547902
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Occupying Space in American Literature and CultureStatic Heroes, Social Movements and Empowerment\nAuthor(s): Ana Manzanas, Jess Benito Sanchez\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138547902, 978-1138547902\nSynopsis\nOccupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways we look at literary and cultural productions. The volume seeks to clarify the connections between race, space, class, and identity as it concentrates on different occupations and disoccupations, enclosures and boundaries. Space is scaled up and down, from the body, the ground zero of spatiality, to the texturology of Manhattan; from the striated place of the office in Melvilles \""Bartleby, the Scrivener\"" on Wall Street, to the striated spaces of internment camps and reservations; from the lowest of the low, the (human) clutter that lined the streets of Albany, NY, during the Depression, .