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New York and Toronto Novels after Postmodernism - Explorations of the Urban (Hardcover, New)
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New York and Toronto Novels after Postmodernism - Explorations of the Urban (Hardcover, New)
Series: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture
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First comparative study of urban fiction in the US and Canada
investigates representations of the urban after postmodernism in
two New York and two Toronto novels. Cities are material and
symbolic spaces through which nations define their cultural
identities. The great cities that have arisen on the North American
continent have stimulated the imaginations of the United States and
Canada invery different ways. This first comparative study of North
American urban fiction starts out by delineating the
sociohistorical and literary contexts in which cities grew into
diverging symbolic spaces in American and Canadian culture. After
an overview of recent developments in the cultural conception of
urban space, the book takes New York and Toronto fiction as
exemplary for exploring representations of the urban after
postmodernism. It analyzes four twenty-first-century novels: two
set in New York - Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved and Paule Marshall's
The Fisher King - and two set in Toronto - Carol Shields's Unless
and Dionne Brand's What We All LongFor. While these texts continue
to echo the specific traditions of nation building and canon
formation in the United States and Canada, they also share certain
features. All of them investigate the affective crossroads of
thecity while returning to a more realistic mode of representation.
Caroline Rosenthal is Professor of American Literature at the
Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany.
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