Sarah K. Harrison

Waste Matters

Urban margins in contemporary literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on work by Patrick Chamoiseau, Chris Abani, Dinaw Mengestu, Suketu Mehta and Vik Muniz, Waste Matters argues that contemporary literature and film offer an insightful and timely response to these questions through their formal and thematic revaluation of 'urban waste', both physical and metaphorical.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781138187061
• ISBN-10: 1138187062
• Artikelnr.: 45635770

Autorenporträt

Sarah K. Harrison completed a PhD in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Locating Urban Waste 2. 'Anything could turn out to be
something': Gleaning Slum History in Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco 3.
'Suspended City': Personal, Urban and National Development in Chris Abani's
Graceland 4. 'A New Heightened Sense of Place': Dinaw Mengestu's Cognitive
Map of Washington, D.C. 5. Seeing the Obvious? Contradictory Visibilities
in Indian City Literature 6. Spectacular Trash: Contemporary Remediations
of Global Urban Waste