Resources

The first of the two lists featured on this page contains novels which people who have participated in this project have recommended as being of potential interest to further explore geography through literature. The second list features a selection of journal articles which relate to the topics covered in the four novels the project focuses upon, and is designed to be used as a starting point to explore them.

Sean Hayes White recommends:

Jupiter’s Travels, Ted Simon (Solo Journey Around the World)

The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald (Time, Memory, and Identity)

The Worst Journey In The World, Apsley Cherry-Garrad (British Antarctic Expedition Memoir)


Gail Graham recommends:

The Making of the English Landscape,  W.G. Hoskins (Landscape History)

Woodlands, Oliver Rackham (Trees of the British Landscape )

Roads and Tracks of Britain, Christopher Taylor (Shaping of the Environment)


Emma Dawson Varughese recommends:

The Rivered Earth, Vikram Seth (Poetry, Travel, and Music)


Anjali Joseph recommends:

Bombay: the cities within, S. Dwivedi (History of Bombay, Photogtaphic)


Peter Knight recommends:

Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint Exupery ( French Aristocrat Aviator-Writer's Memoir)

Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino (Imaginative Potentialities of Cities)

Language of the Earth, F. Rhodes et al (An Anthology of Experiances)


Nii Ayikwei Parkes recommends:

This Earth My Brother, Kofi Awoonor (Ghana)


Kerry Young recommends:

The Crippled Tree, Han Suyin (China)

The Pagoda, Patricia Powell (Jamaica)

The Art of Power, Thich Nhat Hanh (Buddhism)

The Art of War, Sun Tzu (Chinese Military Treatise)

The Sound and The Fury, William Faulkner (Religon and Respect in Mississippi)

Song of Solomom, Toni Morrison (Jewish and Christian)


David Macleod recommends:

In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust (Memory)

Bavibge, J. (2006) Stories in Space: The Geographies of Children's Literature., Children's Geographies, 4,(3), p 319-30.

Burgess, J. & Jenkins, A. (1989) “This is what it is like”. An interview with the writer Geoffrey Moorhouse., Journal of Geography in Higher, 13,(2), p 127-47.

Butler, T. (2007) ‘Memoryscape: how audio walks can deepen our sense of place., Geography Compass, 1,(3), p 360-72.

Caquard, S. (2013) Cartography I Mapping narrative cartography., Progress in Human Geography, 37,(1), p 135-44.

Collins, F.L. (2009) Transnationalism Unbound: Detailing New Subjects, Registers and Spatialities of Cross-Border Lives., Geography Compass, 3,(1), p 434-58.

Dobson, T. & Luce-Kapler, R. (2005) Stitching texts: gender and geography in Frankenstein and Patchwork Girl., Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 12,(2), p 265-77.

Duffy, M. & Waitt, G. (2011) Sound Diaries: A method for listening to plac., Aether: The Journal of Media Geography, 7, p 119-36.

Feenstra, R.E. (2011) Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness (review)., MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 57,(4), p 795-97.

Hones, S. (2008) Text as It Happens: Literary Geography., Geography Compass, 2,(5), p 1301-17.

Hones, S. (2010) Literary geography and the short story: setting and narrative style., Cultural Geographies, 17,(4), p 473-85.

Hones, S. (2011) Literary geography: setting and narrative space., Social & Cultural Geography, 12,(7), p 685-99.

Hunt, A. & Roos, B., eds. (2010) Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives, University of Virginia Press.

Jazeel, T. (2003) Unpicking Sri Lankan ‘island-ness’ in Romesh Gunesekera's Reef., Journal of Historical Geography, 29,(4), p 582-98.

Jazeel, T. (2005) Because Pigs Can Fly: Sexuality, race and the geographies of difference in Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy., Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 12,(2), p 231-49.

Jazeel, T. (2009) Reading the geography of Sri Lankan island-ness: colonial repetitions, postcolonial possibilities., Contemporary South Asia, 17,(4), p 399-414.

Johnson, N.C. (2004) Fictional journeys: paper landscapes, tourist trails and Dublin's literary texts., Social & Cultural Geography, 5,(1), p 91-107.

Mathur, C. (2012) Home as an Emotional Construct in Romesh Gunesekera’s., Asiatic, 6,(1), p 25-31.

Murry, M.A., ed. (2009) Island Paradise: The Myth : an Examination of Contemporary Caribbean and Sri Lankan Writing, Rodopi.

Noxolo, P. (2014) Towards an embodied securityscape: Brian Chikwava's Harare North and the asylum seeking body as site of articulation., Social & Cultural Geography, 15,(3), p 291-312.

Noxolo, P. & Preziuso, M. (2013) Postcolonial Imaginations: Approaching a “Fictionable” World through the Novels of Maryse Condé and Wilson Harris., Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103,(1), p 163-79.

Piatti, B. et al. (2009) Mapping Literature: Towards a Geography of Fiction., Cartography and Art, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, p 1-16.

Prokkola, E.-K. & Ridanpaa, J. (2011) Following the plot of Bengt Pohjanen's Meanmaa: narrativization as a process of creating regional identity., SOCIAL & CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY, 12,(7), p 775-91.

Ridanpaa, J. (2007) Laughing at northernness: postcolonialism and metafictive irony in the imaginative geography., Social & Cultural Geography, 8,(6), p 907-28.

Ridanpaa, J. (2010) A masculinist northern wilderness and the emancipatory potential of literary irony., Gender Place and Culture, 17,(3), p 319-35.

Ridanpaa, J. (2011) Pajala as a literary place: in the readings and footsteps of Mikael Niemi., Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 9,(2), p 103-17.

Ridanpaa, J. (2014) 'Humour is Serious' as a Geopolitical Speech Act: IMDb Film Reviews of Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator., Geopolitics, 19,(1), p 140-60.

Ridanpaa, J. (2014) Politics of literary humour and contested narrative identity (of a region with no identity)., Cultural Geographies, 21,(4), p 711-26.

Rossetto, T. (2013) Theorizing maps with literature., Progress in Human Geography, 38,(4), p 513-30.

Saunders, A. (2010) Literary geography: reforging the connections., Progress in Human Geography, 34,(4), p 436-52.

Singh, R.P.B. (2004) Cultural landscapes and the lifeworld: literary images of Banaras : based on the writings of Kabir, Tulasi, Mirza Ghalib, Bhartendu Harishchandra, Rudra Kashikeya, Bhishma Sahni, Raja Rao, Shivprasad Singh, Abdul Bismillah, Kashinath Singh, Pankaj Mishra, Indica.

Yap, E.X.Y. (2011) Readers-in-conversations: a politics of reading in literary geographies., Social & Cultural Geography, 12,(7), p 793-807.

Another good place to begin your exploration of further Literary Geographies is the interdisciplinary open-access e-journal that provides a forum for new research and collaboration in the field of literary/geographical studies.

Bibliographies compiled by Literary Geographies