Region
Ridanpää, Juha (2024-08-09)
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09.08.2024
Ridanpää, J. (2024). Region. In N. Alexander & D. Cooper, The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies (1st ed., pp. 123–131). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003097761-14
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies on 9 August 2024, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003097761. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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Abstract
‘Region’, used both as a spatial scale and a parameter for geographical thinking, has remained a key concept within geographical research for over a hundred years. This chapter discusses the historical development of regional geographical research on literature, showing how regional literary geography has combined topics and questions from other fields of geographical research. Attention is paid to how epistemological changes and challenges have affected regional literary geography and how regionalism, narrated regional identities, and a sense of regional belonging have turned into research topics for literary geography. The chapter also discusses how regionality should be understood in terms of spatial scales and how regional writing functions as a cultural institution through which the discourses of spatial otherness are constructed and maintained. This chapter illustrates how the idea of the region with several conceptual variations is still a topical issue and theoretical framework in the geographical studies of fiction.
‘Region’, used both as a spatial scale and a parameter for geographical thinking, has remained a key concept within geographical research for over a hundred years. This chapter discusses the historical development of regional geographical research on literature, showing how regional literary geography has combined topics and questions from other fields of geographical research. Attention is paid to how epistemological changes and challenges have affected regional literary geography and how regionalism, narrated regional identities, and a sense of regional belonging have turned into research topics for literary geography. The chapter also discusses how regionality should be understood in terms of spatial scales and how regional writing functions as a cultural institution through which the discourses of spatial otherness are constructed and maintained. This chapter illustrates how the idea of the region with several conceptual variations is still a topical issue and theoretical framework in the geographical studies of fiction.
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