Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Quayson, Ato; Watson, Jini Kim

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three theoretical chapters, each chapter focuses on a particular city in the Global North or Global South, and brings World Literary debates-on translation, literary networks, imperial and migrant imaginaries, centers and peripheries-into conversation with the urban literary histories of Beijing, Bombay/Mumbai, Dublin, Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Lagos, London, Mexico City, Moscow and St Petersburg, New York, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009058346
• Artikelnr.: 70909434

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: world literature, cities and urban imaginaries Jini Kim
Watson and Ato Quayson; Part I. Critical Approaches: 2. Chicago schools:
the skyscraper in translation Reinhold Martin; 3. Writing the Manichean
city from colonial to global metropolis Jini Kim Watson; 4. The urban
itinerary and the city map: the experience of metropolitan space Robert T.
Tally, Jr; Part II. Spotlight Literary Cities: 5. The neighbourhood and the
sweatshop: immigrant and diasporic rites-of-passage in the literature of
New York Ato Quayson; 6. The whole World in little: London as the capital
of world literature Rashmi Varma; 7. Unworlding Paris: Flânerie and
epistemic encounters from Baudelaire to Gauz Ruth Bush; 8. Sketching the
city with words: Istanbul through time in Turkish literary texts Hatice
Aynur; 9. Romance and liminal space in the 20th Century Cairo Novel Noor
Naga; 10. Bombay/Mumbai and its multilingual literary pathways to the world
Anjali Nerleker; 11. At home in the world: Singapore's literary trans
locality Philip Holden; 12. Imagining the migrant in 21st century
Johannesburg Megan Jones; 13. Russia: borders and centers Anne Lounsbery;
14. Cityful passing away: resituating Dublin Christopher Morash; 15. From
altepetl to megacity: narrating Mexico City as world literature María
Moreno Carranco and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra; 16. (In)Visible Beijing
within and without world literature Weijie Song; 17. Worlding Lagos in the
long 20th Century Madhu Krishnan; 18. Haunted vitality: Sydney, colonial
modernity and world literature Brigid Rooney.