The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littoral Space

by Ursula Kluwick and Virginia Richter

From early colonial encounters to the ecological disasters of the twenty-first century, the performativity of contact has been a crucial element in the political significance of the beach. Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, as well as an aesthetically productive topography, this collection examines its multiplicity of meanings and functions as a natural environment engendering both desire and fear in the human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367880962
• ISBN13: 9780367880965
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"