Ends of the Global City
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-77554-3 (ISBN)
This volume of essays explores how the global city is confronting new forms of crises and disruption. Examining cities in the Caribbean, North America, Africa, the Persian Gulf, Asia and Australia, the essays use literary and cultural analysis to examine the pasts, present and futures of the global city. Ranging from the period of high postcolonial development, industrialization and compacted modernization to present-day neoliberal urban planning, the collection considers arrivals and departures in the global city, offering new critical vocabularies to analyse ongoing processes of migration, economic immiseration, and environmental collapse.
Rashmi Varma is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of The Postcolonial City and its Subjects (2011) and co-editor of Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: Critical Engagements with Benita Parry (2018). Her book Modern Tribal: Representing Indigeneity in Postcolonial India is forthcoming. She is a founding editorial collective member of the journal Feminist Dissent and has published numerous essays on postcolonial and feminist theory, activism and literature in edited volumes and journals.
Jini Kim Watson is Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Transpacific Literatures in the School of Culture and Communications, University of Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization (2021) and The New Asian City: Three-dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form (2011). She is also co-editor, with Gary Wilder, of The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (2018) and, with Ato Quayson, of The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature (2023).
Introduction.- Chapter 1: A World of Confinement and Compartments: Fanon, Césaire and the Suffocating City.- Chapter 2: Postsecular Ecology and the Global City in Chris Abani s The Virgin of Flames.- Chapter 3: The Gulf City in Crisis: Reimagining Migrant Labour Protests in Deepak Unnikrishnan s Temporary People.- Chapter 4: Food and Memory in a Global City: the Khanapados/Living Lab Project in New Delhi, by Mrityunjay Chatterjee and Sreejata Roy.- Chapter 5: Narrative Energetics and Energy Ontologies in Singapore: Powering Petro-conscious Dystopian Novels.- Chapter 6: Aesthetics of Mythorealism in Ma Jian s The Dark Road: The Rural Peasant in China s Global Cities.- Chapter 7: More Hell Than Hell ": Seoul, Korean Drama, and Global Imaginaries of Capitalism.- Chapter 8: Archipelago of Illegals: Sydney, Migrant Spatiality, and Aravind Adiga s Amnesty.- Afterword: The Global City at a Tilt.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.04.2025 |
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| Reihe/Serie | New Comparisons in World Literature |
| Zusatzinfo | XIV, 211 p. 7 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft |
| Schlagworte | Colonialism • Global Cities • Literature and Postcolonial Studies • literature and the environment • Postcolonialism • urban geography and urbanism • World Ecology • World literature |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-77554-6 / 3031775546 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-77554-3 / 9783031775543 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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