DiverCity - global cities as a literary phenomenon : Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles in a globalizing age /

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Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon ("DiverCity"). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, "What We All Long For" (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, "Native Speaker" (1995),...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pooch, Melanie U. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2016]
Colección:Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
Poetics > History.
Globalization > Social aspects.
Poétique > Histoire.
Mondialisation > Aspect social.
Literary studies: general.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American literature
Globalization > Social aspects
Literature
Poetics
Toronto (Ont.) > In literature.
New York (N.Y.) > In literature.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > In literature.
California > Los Angeles
New York (State) > New York
Ontario > Toronto
British Studies.
City.
Culture.
Global City.
Globalization.
Literary Studies.
Literature.
Los Angeles.
New York.
Toronto.
Urban Studies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover DiverCity
  • Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; 1 Introduction ; 2 Globalization and Its Effects ; 2.1 Mapping Globalization ; 2.2 Global Consensus ; 2.3 Global Controversies ; 3 Global Cities as Cultural Nodal Points ; 3.1 Urban Studies ; 3.2 Cultural Nodal Points.
  • 3.3 Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles 4 Cultural Diversity in a Globalizing Age ; 4.1 Concepts of Identity ; 4.2 Postcolonial Discourse ; 4.3 Intra, Inter, Multi, and Trans ; 4.4 The Melting Pot, Salad Bowl, and Canadian Mosaic ; 5 The Poetics of diverCity.
  • 5.1 The Poetics of Narrative 5.2 The Poetics of Place ; 5.3 The Poetics of Code-Switching ; 6 Dionne Brand's Toronto, What We All Long For ; 6.1 The Global City of Toronto ; 6.2 Toronto Imagined: The World in a City ; 6.2.1 Polyphonic Murmuring ; 6.2.2 Converging Threads.
  • 6.2.3 Mapping the World in a City 6.2.4 Counter-Cartographies ; 6.2.5 Time-Space Discrepancy ; 6.2.6 Longing and Belonging ; 6.3 Interim Conclusion ; 7 Chang-rae Lee's New York, Native Speaker ; 7.1 The Global City of New York ; 7.2 New York Imagined: A City of Wor(l)ds.
  • 7.2.1 The Strangest Chorale 7.2.2 False Speaker of Language ; 7.2.3 Amiable Man ; 7.2.4 The Immigrant City ; 7.2.5 Interethnic Imagination ; 7.3 Interim Conclusion ; 8 Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, Tropic of Orange ; 8.1 The Global City of Los Angeles.

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