Space, Place and Hybridity in the National Imagination

Christine Vandamme is currently working as an Associate Professor at Grenoble Alpes University, France. Her field of expertise is space and literature from a deconstructive perspective, with a particular interest in the ideological, political, social, and ethical implications of such spatial representations. She has published extensively on Joseph Conrad, Malcolm Lowry, and Australian authors, particularly Patrick White and David Malouf. She published a book on Conrad’s Lord Jim in 2004 and co-edited a volume on Tropes and the Tropics in Conrad’s fiction in 2010. She also co-edited Science and Empire in the Nineteenth Century in 2010 and Mapping Mobility in 2019.André Dodeman is currently working as an Associate Professor at Grenoble Alpes University, France. He has published 20 articles and chapters on the works of various English-Canadian writers such as Hugh MacLennan, Sheila Watson, Margaret Atwood, Alistair MacLeod, Yann Martel, and Wayne Johnston. He has also co-edited four volumes on postcolonial literature and culture with a special focus on myth, memory and place. His latest volume, entitled Negotiating Waters: Seas, Oceans, and Passageways in the Colonial and Postcolonial Anglophone World and co-edited with Dr Nancy Pedri, was published in 2020.