Literature and the peripheral city /

Literature and the peripheral city / [edited by] Jason Finch, Lecturer in English Literature, Åbo Akademi University, Finland ; Lieven Ameel, Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland ; Markku Salmela, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Tampere, Finland.

Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to slums, rubbish dumps to nightclubs and entire failed cities. The essays in this collection explore urban peripheries through readings of literature from f...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Finch, Jason (Editor), Ameel, Lieven, 1978- (Editor), Salmela, Markku (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Subjects:
Cities and towns in literature.
Suburbs in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Peripherality and Literary Urban Studies; Lieven Ameel, Jason Finch and Markku Salmela
  • PART I: CITY PERIPHERIES
  • 1. Detroit and Paris, Paris as Detroit; Jeremy Tambling
  • 2. 'It's Six A.M. Do You Know Where You Are?' Urban Peripherality and the Narrative Framing of Literary Beginnings; Lieven Ameel
  • 3. The Peripheries of London Slumland in George Gissing and Alexander Baron; Jason Finch
  • 4. A Topography of Refuse: Waste, the Suburb, and Pynchon's 'Low-lands'; Markku Salmela
  • 5. London's East End in Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem; Aleksejs Taube
  • 6. The Configuration of Boundaries and Peripheries in Johannesburg as Represented in Selected Works by Ivan Vladislavic and Zakes Mda; Marita Wenzel
  • PART II: PERIPHERAL CITIES, GENRES AND WRITERS
  • 7. Hungry and Alone: The Topography of Everyday Life in Knut Hamsun and August Strindberg; Tone Selboe
  • 8. A Forest on the Edge of Helsinki: Spatiality in Henrika Ringbom's Novel; Martina Dagers l̃ngtan and Topi Lappalainen
  • 9. Eduard Vilde and Tallinn's Dynamic Peripheries, 1858-1903; Elle-Mari Talivee and Jason Finch
  • 10. A Suburban Revision of Nostalgia: The Case of Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra; Bieke Willem
  • 11. From Windowsill to Underpass: Young Women's Spatial Orientation in Swedish Young Adult Literature; Lydia Wistisen
  • 12. Centrifugal City: Centre and Periphery in Ricardo Piglia's La ciudad ausente; Nettah Yoeli-Rimmer.

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