Literary and Cultural Representations of the Hinterlands

This collection explores the diverse relationships between the concept of hinterlands and its manifestations in literature and culture. These essays seek to reconceptualize hinterlands and highlight their semiotic complexity.

List of Contributors
Editors' Introduction - Hinterlands: A Return of the Outside
Ewa K b owska- awniczak, Marcin Tereszewski, Dominika Fe
rens, and Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice
Part I: Hinterlands as Movement
Chapter 1

Dominika Ferens
Chapter 2
Mapping Identity and Memory in Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow
Sophie Kriegel
Chapter 3
Decrepitude, Dispossession, Poetry, and a No-place as a Site of Weak Resistance: 21st-century America as a Hinterland in the films Paterson and Nomadland
Zofia Kolbuszewska
Part II: Heterotopic Hinterlands
Chapter 4
Spaces of Identity in Morocco: Maureen F. McHugh's Nekropolis
Marta Komsta
Chapter 5
Unravelling the Haitian Hinterland as a Twofold Space: Dany Laferriè re and Yanick Lahens
Izabela Por ba
Chapter 6
Haven, Rebellion, Revelation: Australian Hinterlands as Heterotopias in Peter Carey's Novels
Barbara Klonowska
Chapter 7
The Ethical Call from the Hinterlands: Conceptualizing Waste in J. G Ballard's High-Rise and Concrete Island
Marcin Tereszewski
Chapter 8
Post-anthropocentric Hinterlands: Susan Straight's California
Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice
Part III: Regenerative and Nostalgic Hinterlands
Chapter 9
(Re)constructing Identity along the Road through the Chinese Hinterland: Gao Xingjian's Soul Mountain and Ma Jian's Red Dust
Raffael Weger
Chapter 10
Chenkalchoola: Reconfiguring the Social Imaginary of an Indian Hinterland
S. M. Mithuna and Maya Vinai
Chapter 11
Neither Peace nor Haven: Sussex as Virginia Woolf's Imagined Hinterland
Paulina Paj k
Part IV: Hinterlands Revisited and Reimagined
Chapter 12
Lower Silesian Hinterlands: Revisiting and Re-inhabiting the "Recovered Territories"
Ewa K b owska- awniczak
Chapter 13
"There Was Nothing": Return Journeys and the Creation of (Multi)directional Postmemories in 21st-Century Anglophone Novels
Mona Becker
Chapter 14
Ukrainians in Canadian Hinterlands: Children's and Young Adult Historical Fiction on the World War I Internment
Mateusz wietlicki
Chapter 15
Internal Hinterland: Post-Racial Geography of Los Angeles in Paul Beatty's The Sellout
Sascha Pö hlmann
Index