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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 Guöset 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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9783030666897
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 268
  • Udgivet:
  • 20. marts 2022
  • Udgave:
  • 22001
  • Størrelse:
  • 148x15x210 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 351 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 5. december 2024
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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 Guöset 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.

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