Full Description
This volume of essays explores how the global city is confronting new forms of crises and disruption. Examining cities in the Caribbean, North America, Africa, the Persian Gulf, Asia and Australia, the essays use literary and cultural analysis to examine the pasts, present and futures of the global city. Ranging from the period of high postcolonial development, industrialization and compacted modernization to present-day neoliberal urban planning, the collection considers arrivals and departures in the global city, offering new critical vocabularies to analyse ongoing processes of migration, economic immiseration, and environmental collapse.
Contents
Introduction.- Chapter 1: A World of Confinement and Compartments: Fanon, Césaire and the Suffocating City.- Chapter 2: Postsecular Ecology and the Global City in Chris Abani‟s The Virgin of Flames.- Chapter 3: The Gulf City in Crisis: Reimagining Migrant Labour Protests in Deepak Unnikrishnan‟s Temporary People.- Chapter 4: Food and Memory in a Global City: the Khanapados/Living Lab Project in New Delhi, by Mrityunjay Chatterjee and Sreejata Roy.- Chapter 5: Narrative Energetics and Energy Ontologies in Singapore: Powering Petro-conscious Dystopian Novels.- Chapter 6: Aesthetics of Mythorealism in Ma Jian‟s The Dark Road: The Rural Peasant in China‟s Global Cities.- Chapter 7: More Hell Than Hell‟": Seoul, Korean Drama, and Global Imaginaries of Capitalism.- Chapter 8: Archipelago of Illegals: Sydney, Migrant Spatiality, and Aravind Adiga‟s Amnesty.- Afterword: The Global City at a Tilt.
