Transgressive Spatial Imagination in the 20th-Century American Novel

Acknowledgments


Chapter 1
Rethinking Space, Representing Space

Why Space?
Space of Representation, Representation of Space
Being Spatial, Being Transgressive


Chapter 2
Home for the Outdoored in Toni Morrison’s Paradise

Being Put Out, Being Put Outdoors
Place of Memory, Memory of Place
The Other Side of a Black Utopia
Home of Theory, Theory of Home
“The Mutiny of Mares”: Black Utopia as a Gendered Space
“A Real Earthly Home”


Chapter 3
Taking Geographical Detours in William Faulkner’s Light in August

“New” Faulkner, New “Faulkner”
Critical Detours: Locating Faulkner in Southern Studies
“Doomed with Movement”
The Burdens Burdened by History
History Entrapped in Circles


Chapter 4
When Asian Americans Go the Suburbs

When Immigrant Narratives Meet the U.S. Suburbs
Third Worldizing the U.S. Suburbs and Asian American Studies
A Geography of Somewhere, a Geography of Nowhere
Place of Gesture, Gesture of Place
Can the Spy/Suburbanite Speak?
“Come Almost Home”


Bibliography
Index