Mobility, Spatiality, and Resistance in Literary and Political Discourse

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.

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.