Contents

Acknowledgements

JUAN ANTONIO SUÁREZ AND DAVID WALTON

Writing and the Politics of Space: An Introduction

PART I    Borders

DAVID GRIFFITHS

1    Coercive Hospital Spaces in Pat Barker’s The Regeneration Trilogy

ÁNGEL GALDÓN RODRÍGUEZ

2    Metropolitan Isolation in Dystopian Literature

MARÍA LUISA PASCUAL GARRIDO

3    The Island Space in Film Adaptations of The Tempest: On the Invisibility of Borders

CLARA PALLEJÁ-LÓPEZ

4    The House: Friend or Foe? Buildings, Dwellings, and Home in Fiction

LAURA TORRES-ZÚÑIGA

5    Thresholds of Abjection: Identity and Space in Tennessee Williams’s Fiction

PART II    Networks

ANA RULL SUÁREZ

6    Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day: Sociopolitical Suspicion and Double Spaces of Espionage

ÁNGEL MATEOS-APARICIO MARTÍN-ALBO

7    ‘Perfect Cities, Permanent Hells’: The Ideological Coordinates of Urban Space in Postmodern Science Fiction

ISABEL SANTAULARIA I CAPDEVILA

8    They Aren’t the Big Bad Communists We Were Raised to Think They Were? The Representation of Russia in Contemporary Crime Fiction and Thrillers

MARTYNA BRYLA

9    Charting the Liminal Geographies of Eastern Europe in Joyce Carol Oates’s Short Stories

PART III    Escape Lines

A. ROBERT LEE

10  Bound and Unbound: Figurations of Time-Space in African American Authorship

ESTÍBALIZ ENCARNACIÓN-PINEDO

11  Reconfiguring the Epic Space in Anne Waldman’s The Iovis Trilogy

TOMÁS MONTERREY

12  The Literary Geography of a Border Zone: The Canary Islands in Ewing Campbell’s Afoot in the Garden of Enchantments

Notes on Contributors

Index