Vast and diverse, Brooklyn appears in literature as a neighbourly
place of traditional community values, distinct from the
modernizing Manhattan. Brooklyn Fictions discovers what these
literary representations of the New York borough can teach us about
diversity and the individual, the local and the global.Combining
analysis of popular texts such as Prospect Park West with more
canonical novels like The Fortress of Solitude, this study draws on
theories by Zygmunt Bauman and Anthony Cohen to explain how
portraying Brooklyn as set of imagined ideals and nostalgic notions
of community not only addresses concerns but meets the needs of
isolated individuals in a global age.Brooklyn Fictions answers
pressing questions about what it means to live in an urban region
of a globalized world and whether ideals of neighbourliness and
community can still be upheld. With cites depicted as sites of
conflict and fear, this is a crucial contribution to our
understating of the contemporary urban community and the ethical
issues involved in conceptualizing and portraying it in literature.
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