General Introduction (Steven Allen and Kirsten Møllegaard); Part I – Contested Histories of Place: Colonialism, Indigeneity, and Marginalization Introduction: ; Chapter 1: Constructing Sovereignties in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; Chapter 2: Colonial and Indigenous Movements Towards and Through the Landscapes of Swedish Lapland in the Journals of Petrus Læstadius; Chapter 3: Geographies of Marginalization and Identity Politics in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss; Part II – Environmental Landscapes: Constructing and Consuming Nature Introduction: ; Chapter 4: Tasmania: Australia’s Cinematic Landscape of Loss ; Chapter 5: Perceptions of Place in an Irish Energy Landscape on Film; Chapter 6: Walking the Mythical Path: Thoreau’s Old Marlboro Road; Part III – Cityscapes: Movements, Ideology, and Discourse Introduction: ; Chapter 7: The Country, the City, the Sea, and Girls with Green Eyes: The Films of Desmond Davis and Edna O’Brien; Chapter 8: Singing about the City: Imaginations of the City in Telugu Film Songs; Chapter 9 The Dao of the East-West City: Globalizing Identities and Urban Harmonies in Xiaolu Guo’s Literature; Part IV – The Social Construction of Place: Meaningful Imaginaries Introduction: Chapter 10 Contested Spaces: Adichie, Lahiri and the Politics of Belonging; Chapter 11 Vertical Heterotopias: Territories and Power Hierarchies in Tosh Gitonga’s Nairobi Half Life; Chapter 12 Ideologically Charged Urban and Rural Places in American Movies about HIV/AIDS: Social Constructionism and the Cultural Imaginary in the Late Twentieth Century; Part V – Landscapes of Belonging: Nation and Identity Introduction: Chapter 13 Between Place and Non-Place: Disrupting the Categorizations of the Past in Ida Chapter 14 Home and the Range: On the Concept of Home in Annie Proulx's Wyoming Stories Chapter 15 Narratives of Water: Changing Places and Contested Spaces in Swedish Literature
