Routes of the Roots. Geography and Literature in the English-Speaking Countries

This volume, with its forty-nine essays covering writers from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Australia, Canada, and Ireland, aims at enlightening the representations and interpretations of the relationship between man and place, peoples and spaces expressing the anglophone world. The articles included are organized along eight sections: Re-Centring Literature: Signs and Times; Mapping out the Territory: Signs and Charting, Reading and Understanding; Mapping out the Territory as a Discovery of the Self: Signs and Identities; History and Geography: Signs of Memory, Traces and Places; Voices and writings of the Diaspora: Signs for Spaces of Belonging; De-Colonising Maps of Captivity: Signs across the Frontiers of Mindscapes; Mythical Landscapes: Signs and Metaphors Shaping the Land; Language as a Tool: Signs and Naming and the Sense of Place.