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The Suburbs
New Literary Perspectives
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2022
Summary
While suburbs provide a rich field of research for sociologists, architects, urbanists and anthropologists, they have not been given much attention in literary and cultural studies. The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives sets out to enrich the limited existing body of critical analysis on the subject with a landmark collection of essays offering a far larger perspective than the books or collections published so far on the topic. This interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach includes literary and art studies, philosophy, and cultural comment. It examines the suburbs across cultural differences, contrasting British, South African and North American suburbs. The specificity of this book therefore lies in a cross-national and cross-continental exploration of these unchartered territories. The suburbs are redefined as those rebellious margins whose geographical borders are necessarily fuzzy and sketch out a common place where cultural frontiers can be transcended. They are, to use Sarah Nuttall’s terminology, places of “entanglement” where contraries meet and where new ways of being in the world is reborn. Seen through the prism of art and literature, the suburbs may then be recognized, as philosopher Bruce Bégout argues, as a “new way of thinking and making urban space.”
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-68393-302-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-68393-303-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
292
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
Translating the Edgelands No access
Attention and the Ethics of Perception No access
(Sub)Urban Space and the Contemporary American Novel No access
The Suburbs according to John Cheever No access
Re-membering Suburbia No access
“Those Who Prefer the Human Tragedy to the Human Comedy” No access
Suburbia, or Para-urbia No access
Intermediate Spaces in Amy Hempel’s Short Stories No access
“She Had Only to Drift Tonight” No access
Chicago 1900, Between Urban Hell and Paradise Lost No access
Who Am I to Where Is Here? No access
Subversive Suburbs in Dickens’s Fiction No access
From Villa Toscana to Main Reef Road No access
South African Suburbs in Fiction No access
Paying the Mortgage in Contemporary Suburban Fiction No access
“No Poet Has Come” No access
Index No access Pages 283 - 284
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 285 - 292
