Translocality in Contemporary City Novels (Literary Urban Studies)

Mattheis, Lena

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2022/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 251 p.
• 商品コード 9783030666897

Full Description

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.

Contents

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