
The Suburbs
New Literary Perspectives
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published on 1. February 2022
Book
Hardback
302 pages
978-1-68393-302-1 (ISBN)
Description
While suburbs provide a rich field of research for sociologists, architects, urbanists and anthropologists, they have not been given much attention in literary and cultural studies. The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives sets out to enrich the limited existing body of critical analysis on the subject with a landmark collection of essays offering a far larger perspective than the books or collections published so far on the topic. This interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach includes literary and art studies, philosophy, and cultural comment. It examines the suburbs across cultural differences, contrasting British, South African and North American suburbs. The specificity of this book therefore lies in a cross-national and cross-continental exploration of these unchartered territories. The suburbs are redefined as those rebellious margins whose geographical borders are necessarily fuzzy and sketch out a common place where cultural frontiers can be transcended. They are, to use Sarah Nuttall's terminology, places of "entanglement" where contraries meet and where new ways of being in the world is reborn. Seen through the prism of art and literature, the suburbs may then be recognized, as philosopher Bruce Begout argues, as a "new way of thinking and making urban space."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cranbury
United States
Publishing group
Associated University Presses
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
644 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68393-302-1 (9781683933021)
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New Literary Perspectives
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Persons
Marie Bouchet is associate professor of American literature and art at the University of Toulouse.
Nathalie Cochoy is professor of American literature at the University of Toulouse.
Isabelle Keller-Privat is professor of English literature and poetry at the University Toulouse.
Mathilde Rogez is associate professor of South and Southern African literature and post-colonial studies at the University of Toulouse.
Nathalie Cochoy is professor of American literature at the University of Toulouse.
Isabelle Keller-Privat is professor of English literature and poetry at the University Toulouse.
Mathilde Rogez is associate professor of South and Southern African literature and post-colonial studies at the University of Toulouse.
Content
Chapter 1 "Introduction", M. Bouchet, N. Cochoy, I. Keller-Privat, M. Rogez
PART I Challenging the visible
Chapter 2 "'Who wrote the bit about the buffalo?': Edgelands and the Question of Joint Authorship", Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts (with an introduction by Isabelle Keller-Privat)
Chapter 3 "The Poetics of the Suburbs in Ian Sinclair's London Orbital", Jean-Michel Ganteau
Chapter 4 "(Sub)urban Space and the Contemporary American Novel", Heinz Ickstadt
Chapter 5 "Suburbia According to John Cheever: from Distinction to Indistinction", Veronique Beghain
Chapter 6 "'The fingerprinting of phantoms': A Poetics of the Commonplace in Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides (1993)", Jeremy Potier
PART II Nowhere land?
Chapter 7 "'Those who prefer the Human Tragedy to the Human Comedy': Humour in London Suburban Fiction", Ged Pope
Chapter 8 "Suburbia, or Para-urbia: On Some Contemporary British Writers' Representations of Suburban Spaces", Nicolas Pierre Boileau
Chapter 9 "Intermediate Space
PART I Challenging the visible
Chapter 2 "'Who wrote the bit about the buffalo?': Edgelands and the Question of Joint Authorship", Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts (with an introduction by Isabelle Keller-Privat)
Chapter 3 "The Poetics of the Suburbs in Ian Sinclair's London Orbital", Jean-Michel Ganteau
Chapter 4 "(Sub)urban Space and the Contemporary American Novel", Heinz Ickstadt
Chapter 5 "Suburbia According to John Cheever: from Distinction to Indistinction", Veronique Beghain
Chapter 6 "'The fingerprinting of phantoms': A Poetics of the Commonplace in Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides (1993)", Jeremy Potier
PART II Nowhere land?
Chapter 7 "'Those who prefer the Human Tragedy to the Human Comedy': Humour in London Suburban Fiction", Ged Pope
Chapter 8 "Suburbia, or Para-urbia: On Some Contemporary British Writers' Representations of Suburban Spaces", Nicolas Pierre Boileau
Chapter 9 "Intermediate Space