Read more
This collection explores the diverse relationships between the concept of
hinterlands and its manifestations in literature and culture. These essays seek to reconceptualize hinterlands and highlight their semiotic complexity.
List of contents
List of ContributorsEditors' Introduction - Hinterlands: A Return of the OutsideEwa K¿b¿owska-¿awniczak, Marcin Tereszewski, Dominika Fe
rens, and Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice
Part I: Hinterlands as MovementChapter 1
Dominika Ferens
Chapter 2
Mapping Identity and Memory in Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our HillbrowSophie Kriegel
Chapter 3
Decrepitude, Dispossession, Poetry, and a No-place as a Site of Weak Resistance: 21st-century America as a Hinterland in the films Paterson and NomadlandZofia Kolbuszewska
Part II: Heterotopic HinterlandsChapter 4
Spaces of Identity in Morocco: Maureen F. McHugh's NekropolisMarta Komsta
Chapter 5
Unravelling the Haitian Hinterland as a Twofold Space: Dany Laferrière and Yanick Lahens Izabela Por¿baChapter 6
Haven, Rebellion, Revelation: Australian Hinterlands as Heterotopias in Peter Carey's NovelsBarbara Klonowska
Chapter 7
The Ethical Call from the Hinterlands: Conceptualizing Waste in J. G Ballard's High-Rise and Concrete IslandMarcin Tereszewski
Chapter 8
Post-anthropocentric Hinterlands: Susan Straight's CaliforniaKatarzyna Nowak-McNeice
Part III: Regenerative and Nostalgic HinterlandsChapter 9
(Re)constructing Identity along the Road through the Chinese Hinterland: Gao Xingjian's Soul Mountain and Ma Jian's Red DustRaffael Weger
Chapter 10
Chenkalchoola: Reconfiguring the Social Imaginary of an Indian HinterlandS. M. Mithuna and Maya Vinai
Chapter 11
Neither Peace nor Haven: Sussex as Virginia Woolf's Imagined HinterlandPaulina Paj¿k
Part IV: Hinterlands Revisited and ReimaginedChapter 12
Lower Silesian Hinterlands: Revisiting and Re-inhabiting the "Recovered Territories" Ewa K¿b¿owska-¿awniczak
Chapter 13
"There Was Nothing": Return Journeys and the Creation of (Multi)directional Postmemories in 21st-Century Anglophone Novels Mona Becker
Chapter 14
Ukrainians in Canadian Hinterlands: Children's and Young Adult Historical Fiction on the World War I InternmentMateusz ¿wietlicki
Chapter 15
Internal Hinterland: Post-Racial Geography of Los Angeles in Paul Beatty's The Sellout Sascha Pöhlmann
Index
About the author
Ewa K¿b¿owska-¿awniczak is Full Professor of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Wroc¿aw, Poland, where she teaches English literature and cultural and adaptation studies. Much of her research has focused on visuality and the nexus of space and literature. She is the author of
Shakespeare and the Controversy Over Baroque (Wroc¿aw UP);
Visual Seen and Unseen: Insights into Tom Stoppard's Art (Wroc¿aw U P); and
From Concept-City to City Experience (Atut 2013). She co-edited several collections of essays including the latest (with Eva C. Karpinski),
Adaptation and Beyond: Hybrid Transtextualities (Routledge 2023), she guest co-edited for the
Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, and has been editor-in-chief of
Anglica Wratislaviensia (Poland) since 2013.
Dominika Ferens is an associate professor of American literature at the University of Wroc¿aw, Poland. Much of her research has focused on affect, race, gender, and sexuality in American literature. In
Edith and Winnifred Eaton: Chinatown Missions and Japanese Romances (2002), she examined the paradoxes of Orientalism in the writings of two sisters of Chinese-English-Canadian descent. Her book
Ways of Knowing Small Places: Intersections of American Literature and Ethnography since the 1960s (2011) looked at literature's quarrels and affinities with ethnography. Since 2006, she has co-edited the open-access
InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies.
Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice is an associate professor of American literature and culture at the University of Wroc¿aw, Poland, where she teaches American literature. She is the author of
California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion's Novels: Exiled from Eden (2019; paperback edition 2020) and
Melancholic Travelers: Autonomy, Hybridity and the Maternal (2007). She co-edited three volumes,
Representations and Images of Frontiers and Borders: On the Edge (2022),
A Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture (2017), and
Interiors: Interiority/Exteriority in Literary and Cultural Discourse (2010). Her scholarly interests include critical posthumanism and global literatures in English.
Marcin Tereszewski is an assistant professor at the University of Wroc¿aw, Poland, where he specializes in modern British fiction and literary theory. He is the author of
The Aesthetics of Failure: Inexpressibility in Samuel Beckett's Fiction (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013). His current research interests include an examination of psychogeographical and architectural aspects of dystopian fiction, particularly in relation to J. G. Ballard's fiction.
