Maps and Territories: Global Positioning in the Contemporary French Novel

by Joshua Armstrong

Book Overview

The rapidity of postwar globalization and the structural changes it has brought to both social and spatial aspects of everyday life has meant, in France as elsewhere, the destabilizing of senses of place, identity, and belonging, as once familiar, local environments are increasingly de-localized and made porous to global trends and planetary preoccupations. Maps and Territories identifies such preoccupations as a fundamental underlying impetus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1802070141
• ISBN13: 9781802070149
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 248 Pages