"The first scholarly book to focus on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by authors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and India. Examining novels from a broad range of writers, including Zadie Smith, Lionel Shriver, Aravind Adiga, Michael Chabon and Irvine Welsh, this book makes a powerful case for the importance of literature in helping to understand the lived experience of gentrification"--
"The first scholarly book to focus on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by authors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and India. Examining novels from a broad range of writers, including Zadie Smith, Lionel Shriver, Aravind Adiga, Michael Chabon and Irvine Welsh, this book makes a powerful case for the importance of literature in helping to understand the lived experience of gentrification"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
James Peacock is Reader in English and American Literatures at Keele University, UK. He is the author of Brooklyn Fictions: The Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age (Bloomsbury, 2015).
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements Introduction: (Not) At Home: Geographies and Genres of the Gentrification Story Chapter 1: The House as Character, the Character of the House Chapter 2: The Frontier and the Picturesque Chapter 3: House of Pain: Gentrification and Home Invasion Chapter 4: Renovations: Psychological Gentrification Chapter 5: Underworlds: Crime Stories and Gentrification Chapter 6: Other Neighbourhoods, Other Worlds: Gentrification, Speculative Fictions and Apocalypse Conclusion: Forms of Resistance Bibliography
Acknowledgements Introduction: (Not) At Home: Geographies and Genres of the Gentrification Story Chapter 1: The House as Character, the Character of the House Chapter 2: The Frontier and the Picturesque Chapter 3: House of Pain: Gentrification and Home Invasion Chapter 4: Renovations: Psychological Gentrification Chapter 5: Underworlds: Crime Stories and Gentrification Chapter 6: Other Neighbourhoods, Other Worlds: Gentrification, Speculative Fictions and Apocalypse Conclusion: Forms of Resistance Bibliography
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