
Space, Affect, Memory
Literary geographies in transnational and transdisciplinary comparison
Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza (Editor), Tomás Espino Barrera (Editor)
Space, Affect, Memory highlights the centrality of space in modern and contemporary culture, both as an object of study and as a concept that underpins research and creative practice. In so doing, this book argues for the necessity of a new approach to space which integrates its affective and memorial dimension.
Contributors from different fields explore and advance debates in literary geography from diverse transnational perspectives through close readings of canonical and less familiar cultural and literary productions in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Japanese, in locales spanning Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. In this way, Space, Affect, Memory decentres the anglophone bias of established scholarly approaches in literary geography, probing terminologies and methodologies from different national traditions.
Finally, Space, Affect, Memory interweaves the visual arts by engaging with photography, performance and architecture. As a result, the volume offers a fresh, comparative perspective on the intermingling of space, affect and memory that lies at the heart of literary geography and comparative literature. These efforts converge in a shared attempt to pluralize the field (geographies) and to showcase the numerous possibilities of creative, transdisciplinary interaction between media, performance and representation, across cultures.
List of figures
List of contributors
Introduction: Between performance and representation
Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera
Part I: Grounding notions
1 Literary geography, chaotically
Sheila Hones
2 ‘Being, not representing’: non-representational thought in D.H. Lawrence’s non-fiction
Tim Gupwell
3 ‘Even the sepulchre dies’: the literary institution as necrological apparatus. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and Rosalía Castro in the context of nineteenth-century public memory
Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza
Part II: Precarious settings
4 A sixteen-year night on the tiles: space, memory and affect in Ricardo Rangel’s photobook Our Nightly Bread (2004)
Paul Castro
5 Wandering traumatized spaces: performing spatial and temporal vulnerabilities in Jon McGregor’s Even the Dogs
Katia Marcellin
6 Geological histories, relational affects and the global novel’s scaling challenge in Élisabeth Filhol’s Doggerland
Marta Puxan-Oliva
7 Affective facts and politics of enmity: fracturing the looking glass of social (re)presentation in Y.B.’s Allah superstar (2003)
Eric Wistrom
Part III: Junctures and circulations
8 Godwin’s St. Leon adventure-making as risk-taking: gambling, capital and self-regulation
Rebecca Murray
9 European national pantheons from a transnational perspective (1851–1889). The Panthéon and the Ruhmeshalle as seen by Carolina Coronado and Emilia Pardo Bazán
Tomás Espino Barrera
10 ‘A monument for the living, not the dead’: unravelling the poetic-pedagogical threads in Legarsi alla montagna (1981)
Sarah Moxham
Index
DOI: 10.14324/111.9781800089266
Publication date: 06 October 2025
PDF ISBN: 9781800089266
EPUB ISBN: 9781800089273
Hardback ISBN: 9781800089242
Paperback ISBN: 9781800089259
Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza (Editor) 
Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza is Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
Tomás Espino Barrera (Editor) 
Tomás Espino Barrera is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Humanities of the University of Luxembourg.

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