Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: It is argued that the notion of "literary space", as developed from diverse perspectives by scholars within the disciplinary contexts of cultural geography and literary studies, is a convenient tool to evoke interdisciplinary research that has its focal area about literary studies; and hence potentially contributing to overcome a state of the art which perpetuates the position of studies on the Black Sea literatures and cultures at the margin of humanities (or: on the verge of not being constituted as a subject in humanities).Attempting a critical overview, I discern two main shortcomings of studies on the Black Sea region/area: (i) a tendency to "naturalise" and dehumanise their subject, which correlates with specific interdisciplinary constellation; (ii) and a multilayered commitment to imperial agendas, some exogenous to the geographic region and some not.Tracing diverse theoretic perspectives in adopting the concept of "literary space" (as a driver of imagination, as a field of interaction, and as an ambient of non-occurring events), and minding the mentioned shortcomings, I come to a set of prospective research issues which, as I believe, can bring a scholarly field to birth.
DOI: 10.30958/ajms.6-2-2
Author: Yordan Lyutskanov
Language: English
Topic: Spatial and Cultural Studies
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3016739868