Narrating the city : histories, space, and the everyday /

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"In recent decades, the insight that narration shapes our perception of reality has inspired and influenced the most innovative historical accounts. Focusing on new research, this volume explores the history of non-elite populations in cities from Caracas to Vienna, and Paris to Belgrade. Narra...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Fischer-Nebmaier, Wladimir (Editor), Berg, Matthew Paul, 1961- (Editor), Christou, Anastasia (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Series:Space and place ; volume 15
Subjects:
City and town life > Historiography.
City and town life in literature.
City and town life in motion pictures.
Working class > Historiography.
Middle class > Historiography.
Public spaces > Historiography.
Community life > Historiography.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Vie urbaine > Historiographie.
Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
Vie urbaine au cinéma.
Travailleurs > Historiographie.
Espaces publics > Historiographie.
Communauté > Historiographie.
Narration.
Discours narratif.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
HISTORY > Historiography.
City and town life in literature
City and town life in motion pictures
Discourse analysis, Narrative
Middle class > Historiography
Working class > Historiography
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Space, narration, and the everyday / Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier
  • Part I. Narratives and images of the city
  • The case of ossification : contemporary narratives about everyday life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Lviv / Andriy Zayarnyuk
  • The Masa's odysseys through bourgeois Caracas : the testimony of novels, 1920s-1970s / Arturo Almandoz
  • Re-imagining Nieuwland : narrative mapping and the mental geography of urban space in a Dutch multi-ethnic neighborhood / Leeke Reinders
  • Part II. Claiming urban space
  • City and cinema as spaces for (trans-national) grassroots mobilization : perspectives from Southeastern and Central Europe / Anna Schober
  • Adjudicating lodging : denazification, housing requisition, and identity in "Red Vienna," 1945-1948 / Matthew P. Berg
  • Part III. Living and working in the city
  • Urban information flows : workers' and employers' knowledge of the asbestos hazard in Clydeside, ca. 1950-1970s / Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor
  • Creating a familiar space : childcare, kinship, and community in post-socialist New Zagreb / Tihana Rubic and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits.

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