@article{1435012,
      recid = {1435012},
      author = {Mattheis, Lena.},
      title = {Translocality in contemporary city novels /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2021},
      abstract = {Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the  fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are  increasingly characterised by translocalitythe 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 novelsby  authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dionne Brand,  Kiran Desai, and Xiaolu Guoset 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 fieldsincluding narratology, human  geography, transculturality, diaspora spaces, and  postcolonial perspectivesMattheis develops a set of  cross-disciplinary techniques in literary urban studies.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1435012},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66687-3},
}