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Twenty-first-century British fiction and the city

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Twenty-first-century British fiction and the city/ edited by Magali Cornier Michael.
other author:	Michael, Magali Cornier.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2018.,
Description:	xi, 252 p. :digital ; : 22 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	English fiction - History and criticism. - 21st century -
Subject:	Great Britain - Politics and government - 1997- -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89728-8
ISBN:	9783319897288

Twenty-first-century British fiction and the city
Twenty-first-century British fiction and the city[electronic resource] /edited by Magali Cornier Michael. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xi, 252 p. :digital ;22 cm. - Literary urban studies,2523-7888. - Literary urban studies..

1. Introduction: Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the City: Magali Cornier Michael -- 2. "Why Should You Go Out?": Encountering the City in Monica Ali's Brick Lane: Nick Bentley -- 3. The Cosmopolitan Potential of Urban England?: Jon McGregor's If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things: Magali Cornier Michael -- 4 "We exist only in the reflection of others": Imagining London's History in Bernadine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe: Nicola Allen -- 5. Gated Communities and Dystopia in J.G. Ballard's Super-Cannes: Francesco Di Bernardo -- 6. Celetoids and the City: Tabloidization of the Working Class in Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Martin Amis' Lionel Asbo: State of England: Megan Faragher -- 7. Belonging and Un-belonging in London: Representations of Home in Diana Evans' 26a: Katie Danaher -- 8 Between Urban Ecology and Social Construction: Environment and the Ethics of Representation in Zadie Smith's NW: John Hadlock -- 9.The Queer Gothic Spaces of Contemporary Glasgow: Louise Welsh's The Cutting Room: Emily Horton -- 10 Convulsions of the Local: Contemporary British Psychogeographical Fiction: Ella Mudie -- 11. Trauma, Negativities and the City in Trezza Azzopardi's Remember Me: Philip Tew.

The essays in this edited collection offer incisive and nuanced analyses of and insights into the state of British cities and urban environments in the twenty-first century. Britain's experiences with industrialization, colonialism, post-colonialism, global capitalism, and the European Union (EU) have had a marked influence on British ideas about and British literature's depiction of the city and urban contexts. Recent British fiction focuses in particular on cities as intertwined with globalization and global capitalism (including the proliferation of media) and with issues of immigration and migration. Indeed, decolonization has brought large numbers of people from former colonies to Britain, thus making British cities ever more diverse. Such mixing of peoples in urban areas has led to both racist fears and possibilities of cosmopolitan co-existence.

ISBN: 9783319897288

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-89728-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

571921
English fiction
--History and criticism.--21st centurySubjects--Geographical Terms:

556459
Great Britain
--Politics and government--1997-

LC Class. No.: PR890.C53 / T84 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 823.9209

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