Translocality in contemporary city novels 1st ed.

Author

• Mattheis, Lena

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030666873

Series

Literary urban studies

Subject(s)

• CITIES AND TOWNS IN LITERATURE
• ENGLISH FICTION
• POSTCOLONIALISM IN LITERATURE

Notes

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Abstract

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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xv, 251 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Introducing Translocal Narratability --
1. Simultaneity --
2. Palimpsest --
3. Mapping --
4. Scaling --
5. Silence, Absence, Non-Place --
6. Haunting --
Conclusion.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00815/21	823.009358209732 Mat T	Online !	Available