‘Craceland’: An Introduction

Shaw, Katy; Aughterson, Kate

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“…Crace's novels can be subsumed within the umbrella term of transmodern fiction for a number of reasons: he avoids postmodernist themes and narrative strategies in favour of what he calls traditional or imaginative writing which relies on a clear storyline and pure invention 25 ; his novels, no matter the time in which they are set, are always meant by means of "provocative and complicated parallels with our own world" 26 to address acute contemporary issues; his stories always revolve around serious ethical concerns directly relevant for his readers, especially the relationship to the other, be that human beings, animals or the environment; and last but not least, hand in hand with his moral focus goes his political engagement and criticism of the inauspicious impacts of capitalism and globalisation.…”

Section: The Transmodern and Transgressive Cracelandmentioning

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Transgressive Spatiality and Multiple Temporality in Jim Crace’s Arcadia

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2022

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Arcadia (1992), Jim Crace’s most distinctively urban novel, bears the idiosyncratic features of its author’s writing: it is a deceptively simple story of vague geographical and historical setting conceived as a parable of the current world concerns, it portrays a community in a transitional moment of its existence, and it places special emphasis on spatial representations of its fictitious environment which assume metaphorical properties that convey the story’s rich ideas. Moreover, as a writer focusing on moral issues with a leftist political outlook, Crace has been consistent in his criticism of the neoliberal market economy and its negative impacts on communal values, a view which is also voiced in the novel. This paper makes use of the theoretical premises of Transmodernism as well as analytical tools of phenomenologically focused geocriticism to demonstrate that Arcadia can be subsumed within so-called transmodern fiction. This critique of globalized capitalism is carried out through sites Eric Prieto terms as the entre-deux, the in-between. Accordingly, the paper attempts to demonstrate how the novel’s liminal and heterogeneous places display non-linear and complexly interrelated temporalities which are indicative of their role within the city’s progress.

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Section: The Transmodern and Transgressive Cracelandmentioning

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Transgressive Spatiality and Multiple Temporality in Jim Crace’s Arcadia

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2022

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“The City that Truly Counts” – the Meaningful Cityscape of Jim Crace’s Six

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2024

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Jim Crace’s ability to create both authentic and poetic geographic and topographic renderings has led critics to coin the term “Craceland” to denote these idiosyncratic settings that appear other and relatable at the same time. His narrative power lies in his ability to render places and spaces which, in spite of their wholly fictitious character, evoke a strong feeling of pl ausibility and familiarity. His milieux are never abstracted from the human element, and his stories examine the close link between his protagonists and the places they occupy or move through, thus emphasising the experiential and emotional dimension of space and place. Six (2003), his seventh novel, set in an unnamed imaginary present-day city, follows the fate of Lix Dern, a celebrated actor and a father of six children, in his life and career. Along with Arcadia (1992) and The Melody (2018), Six ranks among its author’s urban novels which explore the diverse aspects of the interrelatedness between modern cityscape and its inhabitants’ mental and physical existence. By using humanistic geography and phenomenological geocriticism as its theoretical points of departure, this paper attempts to analyse the roles the city assumes in conveying the novel’s principal thematic concerns, as well as to demonstrate how Six differs from Crace’s other two urban novels.

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‘Craceland’: An Introduction

Cited by 2 publications

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Transgressive Spatiality and Multiple Temporality in Jim Crace’s Arcadia

Transgressive Spatiality and Multiple Temporality in Jim Crace’s Arcadia

“The City that Truly Counts” – the Meaningful Cityscape of Jim Crace’s Six

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