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Translocality in Contemporary City Novels (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Translocality in Contemporary City Novels (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Literary Urban Studies
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Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that
twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly
characterised by translocality-the layering and blending of two or
more distant settings. Considering translocal and transcultural
writing as a global phenomenon, this book draws on
multidisciplinary research, from globalisation theory to the study
of narratives to urban studies, to explore a corpus of thirty-two
novels-by authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dionne Brand,
Kiran Desai, and Xiaolu Guo-set in a total of ninety-seven cities.
Lena Mattheis examines six of the most common strategies used in
contemporary urban fiction to make translocal experiences of the
world narratable and turn them into relatable stories:
simultaneity, palimpsests, mapping, scaling, non-places, and
haunting. Combining and developing further theories, approaches,
and techniques from a variety of research fields-including
narratology, human geography, transculturality, diaspora spaces,
and postcolonial perspectives-Mattheis develops a set of
cross-disciplinary techniques in literary urban studies.
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