Translocality in contemporary city novels / Lena Mattheis.
Mattheis, Lena.
2021
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Title Translocality in contemporary city novels / Lena Mattheis.
Author Mattheis, Lena.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9783030666873 (electronic bk.)
3030666875 (electronic bk.)
3030666867
9783030666866
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66687-3
Imprint Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-66687-3 doi
Call Number PR889
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.009358209732
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Literary urban studies.
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Introducing Translocal Narratability
1. Simultaneity
2. Palimpsest
3. Mapping
4. Scaling
5. Silence, Absence, Non-Place
6. Haunting
Conclusion.

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