Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture

Brian Jarvis

Pluto Press, 1998 - American fiction - 208 pages

In this work, the author addresses ideas and writers from Baudrillard and Jameson to David Lynch and Toni Morrison. He explores how this new geography can illuminate a range of postmodern texts as part of an exploration of the geographical imagination in contemporary American culture.

Contents

• A Brief History of Space: 1
• Daniel Bell: 13
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love: 24

About the author

Andrew Dix is Lecturer in American Studies at Loughborough University, UK. He is the author of Beginning Film Studies (Manchester University Press, 2008) and co-editor of Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in English and American Writing, 1800-2000 (Sussex Academic Press, 2006); his other published work includes book chapters on Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Native American fiction.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture; Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture
• Author: Brian Jarvis
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Pluto Press, 1998
• Original from: Indiana University
• Digitized: Aug 25, 2008
• ISBN: 074531290X, 9780745312903
• Length: 208 pages