Translocality in Contemporary City Novels (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Literary Urban Studies
Release date:	March 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Lena Mattheis
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	251
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-066686-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
LSN:	3-03-066686-7
Barcode:	9783030666866

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