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Research in urban development in the social sciences has increasingly emphasized the importance of underground infrastructure for envisaging sustainable cities and for critiquing the economies of extraction. Urban Undergrounds: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Perspectives demonstrates the urgency of integrating a below-ground perspective into the emerging field of the Urban Humanities.
The collection is divided into three thematic sections that cluster and revisit different sets of well-known motifs in Underground Studies: "Displaced", "Buried" and "Wasted". It showcases the intermedial nature of underground-focused analyses in literature, extending from literary texts to a wider range of cultural forms, including films, graphic novels and videogames. The contributors build on recent scholarship that has expanded the field into new interdisciplinary areas, including intersections with memory studies, ecocriticism and decolonial perspectives. Urban Undergrounds also explores lesser-studied subterranes, including those of Warsaw, Athens, Mexico City, Johannesburg and Santiago de Chile. The book's substantial introduction offers a guiding theoretical and methodological framework for future scholars working with underground perspectives in literary and cultural studies.
This thought-provoking and illuminating collection is a valuable resource for students and scholars in the areas of Literary Urban Studies, Underground Studies and Geocriticism, and more broadly in the Urban Humanities and Spatial Humanities.
Contents
1. Introduction: Underground Studies in the Humanities Today; 2. Literary Hellscapes and Urban Ontologies; 3. Katabasis and Climate Change; 4. Platform Change: The Santiago Metro as an Underground Portal in Chilean Science Fiction; 5. Intersecting Modernity's Underground Imaginaries in Paris and the RER; 6. Collectivity and Care in the Necropolis: Mexico City Underground in Gabriela Jauregui's Feral; 7. Urban Undergrounds and 'Deep' Psychology in the Maximalist Novels of Ernesto Sabato and Mircea Cărtărescu; 8. A Psychogeographic Exploration of Johannesburg's Literary Urban Underground; 9. Buried Chaos: Elden Ring's Undergrounds and the Videoludic Palimpsest(s); 10. Myth no more? The Warsaw Sewers in Literature, Music and Film; 11. Into the Bowels of London: Underground as Margin of the Fantastic in Michael Moorcock's Mother London and Peter Ackroyd's London Under; 12. "Welcome to the realm of the homeless". Athens' Underworld in Contemporary City Literature; Index
