Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
There are several significant parallels between them as both find and ultimately lose their lovers in the desert and then, after many years have passed, attempt to re-create those spaces in their imaginations as a means of returning to the desert. Marc Augé's concept of 'non-places' can be applied to these novels as a means of exploring whether the physical desert is represented as a transitory space that does not incite a sense of belonging in the characters [1]. The depiction of the desert as a 'non-place' may then be contrasted with Gaston Bachelard's geocritical concept of 'home' as a mental space if we consider that the imagined desert imbues characters with a sense of identity and belonging [2].
Repository Citation
Ager, Sarah. "A Geocritical Approach to the Role of the Desert in Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger and Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 14, no. 3, 2014, pp. 1–14. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol14/iss3/13