Mobility, Spatiality, and Resistance in Literary and Political Discourse

Christian Beck is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Central Florida, USA. He has published on a wide array of topics ranging from medieval English literature to graffiti and hacktivism. He recently published Spatial Resistance: Literary and Digital Challenges to Neoliberalism (2019) and is currently working on his next monograph, The Figure of the Vigilante: Concepts for Political and Social Justice.

• 1: Introduction: Resistance, the Outside, and the Creative Act, Christian Beck.- Part I: Mobility and Travel.- 1: The Chivalrous Nation: Travel and Ideological Exchange in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.- 2: Conjuring Roots in Dystopia: Reconciling Transgenerational Conflict in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring and Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying.- 3: Matriarchal Mobility: Generational Displacement and (En)Gendered Place in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.- 4: Colonial Advertising and Tourism in the Crosscurrents of Empire.- 5: Mobility and Remapping borders in Palestinian Women’s Literature: Narratives of Resistance and Survival.- Part II: Backgrounds and Interiors.- 6: Interiorized Imperialism in Native American and Japanese American World War II Narratives.- 7: Turning the Earth, Changing the Narrative: Spatial Transformation in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892).- 9: Woolf in the Background: Distance as Visual Philosophy, Then and Now.- 10: Representing the Slum in African Literatures: The Contingency of Political Possibility.- Part III: Radical Positions.- 11: A New Cartographer: Rabih Alameddine and An Unnecessary Woman.- 12: Spaces of Resistance in Thomas Pynchon’s Later Novels.- 13: Trans(it) Spaces and Intimacy: A Literary Analysis of Chicu’s Soliloquy.- 14: “A Spring of Pure Possibility”: Harlem, Palestine, and Chester Himes’s “Literature of Combat”.- 15: Counter-narratives of Inevitability: Anti-capitalism and the Near Future in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Louise Erdrich’s The Future Home of the Living God.