'He was in no place and no place was in him': Edward Dahlberg‘s autobiographical fictions as an epistemology of sites

  1. M ARTÍN U RDIALES - S HAW 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Vigo
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    Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, España

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Revista:
Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos

ISSN: 1133-309X,  2253-8410

Ano de publicación: 2017

Número: 21

Páxinas: 145-165

Tipo: Artigo

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Edward Dahlberg‘s childhood, adolescence and youth, narratively fictionalized in two early biographical novels, "Bottom Dogs" (1930) and "Flushing to Calvary" (1932) is markedly and recurrently informed by the influence of urban sites and institutional spaces. As the article discusses, a number of these spaces are pivotal to the development of Dahlberg‘s autobiographical character Lorry and can be productively read in terms of the Foucaldian heterotopia, while other sites, explicitly identified as metropolitan, are marginal to Lorry‘s autobiographical narrative, and yet serve to foreground the protagonist‘s absence from them in relevant ways. Finally, other spaces may epitomize a predominantly artificial nature, functioning as simulacra of experiences that Lorry undergoes but needs to cast out. Drawing on theoretical tenets related to space, site and place, as set out by Foucault, Baudrillard, Lefebvre and others, in this article will I contend that a situated epistemological approach is essential in fruitfully reading Dahlberg‘s early fictions, and, ultimately, in understanding his quest for space in both biographical and artistic terms

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1This article is part of the research project ―Literatura y globalización: la literatura norteamericana desde una perspectiva transnacional‖ financed by the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (code FFI 2015-66767-P, MINECO/FEDER, EU) and of the Xunta de Galicia ―Rede de Lingua e Literatura Inglesa e Identidade III‖ (code ED431D2017/17).

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