Description: A consideration of literary geography as a specialist academic field.
Interspatiality is a book about the language, theory, and practice of a literary geography which takes as its subject matter the inseparability of writing, reading, and living. It explores ways of engaging with interrelated textual-social-spatial processes, working with the problem of how to appreciate these processes as inseparable; how to articulate the complex spatialities they generate; and how to convey their presence, power, and significance in literary texts. By focusing on literary geography as something inhabited as well as studied, it draws attention to the interspatiality of routine daily life.Brief description: Sheila Hones is professor emerita at the University of Tokyo and an honorary research fellow at Swansea University, UK.