By Elizabeth H. Jones
Questions of house, position and identification became more and more famous during the arts and arts lately. This examine starts via investigating the explanations for this development in curiosity and analyses the underlying assumptions on which interdisciplinary discussions approximately area are frequently dependent. After tracing again the historical past of touch among Geography and Literary reviews from either disciplinary views, it is going directly to speak about contemporary educational paintings within the box and seeks to forge a brand new conceptual framework in which modern discussions of area and literature can function. The publication then strikes directly to an intensive software of the interdisciplinary version that it has tested. Having argued that the event of latest area has rendered questions of domestic and belonging rather urgent, it undertakes particular research of the way those phenomena are articulated in a range of modern French lifestyles writing texts. The shut, text-led readings demonstrate that while hardly ever highlighted for his or her relevance to the research of house, those works do actually narrate the impression of a few of the main major cultural stories of the 20th century, together with the Holocaust and the AIDS difficulty, upon geo-cultural senses of identification. house is proven to be a deeply troublesome, but strongly wanted, section of the modern global. The ebook concludes by way of addressing the underlying thesis that modern lifestyles writing may supply simply the 'postmodern maps' that can aid not just literary students, but additionally geographers, greater comprehend the realm this present day. Key names and ideas: Serge Doubrovsky - Herv? Guibert - Fredric Jameson - Philippe Lejeune - R?gine Robin; Autofiction - Cultural Geography - Interdisciplinarity - position and id - Postmodernism - area - Postmodern house - Literary reports - Twentieth-Century lifestyles Writing.
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That is to say that businesses and even nation-states seek to legitimise their activities through notions of efficiency and productivity rather than on idealistic or humanist grounds. Concomitantly, knowledge is valued less because of its potential contribution to ‘la formation de l’Esprit’ or the development of society, than because it may be sold and consumed. 23 Indeed, it is from this theory that many 22 23 See Peet (1998: 14 and 76). In this, Lyotard’s argument can clearly be seen to concur with Jameson’s controversial assertion that the postmodern is fundamentally bound up with changes in the economic nature of the world, namely the penetration of multinational capitalism.
In such a world, people are said to live unthinkingly without meaning, as play replaces meaningful actions. 27 The correlation between postmodern societies and the dominant features of contemporary capitalism is particularly evident here, as characteristics that are normally attributed to current industrial and economic trends seem also to apply to people and society. For example, instant obsolescence, the temporary contract in everything and general sensory overload are trends that characterise both contemporary human relationships and the current economic climate.
In postmodernism, global space is organised by the more slippery forces of neo-colonialism, postcolonialism and multinational capital. One aspect of the highly complex geography that results is the proliferation and intensification of links between capital and primary cities. Paul Smethurst, in a study entitled ‘There is No Place Like Home: Belonging and Placelessness in the Postmodern Novel’ (1997), touches on some important aspects of this phenomenon. He argues that ‘in this postmodern world, space is discontinuous and time is non-linear.
