Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture

Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture opens a dialogue between the literary and filmic works produced in Central Europe and in the Anglophone world. It relies on the concept of translocality to explore this corpus, offering new readings of contemporary Hungarian films as well as urban fiction and poetry in English. Calling attention to the role of affect in imagining city space, the volume investigates Gyorgy Palfi's Taxidermia, Bela Tarr's Family Nest, Teju Cole's Open City, Toni Morrison's Jazz, China Mieville's Un Lun Dun, Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah, and Patrick Neate's City of Tiny Lights, among many other urban narratives. Contributors examine both widely explored emotions and under-researched affects, such as shame, fascination, and the role of withdrawal in contemporary literature and culture. Contributors: Tamas Benyei, Imola Bulgozdi, Fanni Feldmann, Zsolt Gyori, Agnes Gyorke, Brigitta Hudacsko, Gyorgy Kalmar, Anna Kerchy, Marta Korosi, Jennifer Leetsch, Katalin Palinkas, Miklos Takacs, Pieter Vermeulen.