The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City (eBook)

Jeremy Tambling (Herausgeber)

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2017
863 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-54911-2 (ISBN)

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This book is about the impact of literature upon cities world-wide, and cities upon literature. It examines why the city matters so much to contemporary critical theory, and why it has inspired so many forms of writing which have attempted to deal with its challenges to think about it and to represent it. Gathering together 40 contributors who look at different modes of writing and film-making in throughout the world, this handbook asks how the modern city has  engendered so much theoretical consideration, and looks at cities and their literature from China to Peru, from New York to Paris, from London to Kinshasa. It looks at some of the ways in which modern cities - whether capitals, shanty-towns, industrial or 'rust-belt' - have forced themselves on people's ways of thinking and writing.

Jeremy Tambling has been Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong and at the University of Manchester, UK; and is author of over twenty books on literary and cultural theory, many engaged with cities and urban theory.

Inhalt

The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City 3
Volume Editor’s Introduction and Acknowledgements 6
Contents 11
Prologue: City-Theory and Writing, in Paris and Chicago: Space, Gender, Ethnicity 16
Paris 21
Baudelaire 22
Women and the City 26
The City and New Writing 28
Chicago and Naturalism 31
‘Urban is Often a Euphemism for Black’ (Quoted, Norris 2014, p. 136) 33
Bibliography 35
Part I The City in Theory 38
Introduction 38
Modern Urban Theory and the Study of Literature 41
Nineteenth-Century Fear of the City 43
More Anti-Urban Urges, 1898–1961 45
Cities of Monuments and Towers 49
The Urban Experience 50
Postwar: Can Planners Plan? 52
Postscript: Art versus Science? 54
Bibliography 56
Theorists of the Postmodern, Global, and Digital City 59
The Death of the Great City 59
From Las Vegas to Junkspace 61
Resistances of the Global City 64
Ethics in the Digital City 67
Bibliography 70
Walter Benjamin and The Arcades Project 72
Approaching the Arcades 72
Dreaming the Arcades: Charles Baudelaire, Allegory and the Unconscious 76
Awakening from the Arcades: The Dialectical Image 78
Benjamin’s Other Cities 81
Bibliography 85
‘How Did the Everyday Manage to Become So Interesting?’ 87
The Problem of Studying the Everyday 88
The Everyday as Indeterminate 90
The City’s Unconscious 91
Viewing the City 94
Conclusions 96
Bibliography 99
Part II European Cities 100
Introduction 38
Cartographing Dublin 103
Joyicity: His Name Stinks All over Dublin (Joyce 2012, p. 414.23 and 1986, pp. 73, 6.64–65) 103
Revivals: Returns of Early Mythological, Viking and Norman Dublin 105
Revolutions: Of the Word, of the World 108
One cannot even begin to post figure out a statuesquo (Joyce 2012, p. 181.34) 112
After the Wake 114
Bibliography 117
Medieval and Early Modern Cities: London, Paris, Florence and Amsterdam 120
Introduction 120
Medieval London: Medieval Cities 121
Early Modern London 126
Drama and the City 126
City Comedies 128
London, Paris, Amsterdam 132
Bibliography 133
Modern London: 1820–2020 136
Recurring Motifs and Figures: Discovery, Money, the Immigrant 138
Key Imaginative Loci and Movements: River, Park, Lodging House, Periphery 139
1820–1870: Visions and Topographies Intertwined in De Quincey and Dickens 141
Late Victorian and Edwardian: Alienated Topographies 144
Perspectives and Analogies in the Era of Modernism: Ford, Woolf, Eliot 146
Fire and Water: Symbol after Eliot 149
After 1945: Immigrant and Post-immigrant Writing 151
Conclusion: Moving on from Dickens and Eliot 153
Bibliography 153
Balzac: A Socio-Material Archaeology of Paris 156
Bibliography 171
Berlin: Flesh and Stone, Space and Time 173
City Centre, Expansion and the Suburbs—Urban Chronicles 177
Berlin Babylon 180
Remains of the Day 183
Division, New Beginning and Normalization 184
Bibliography 187
Petersburg on the Threshold 191
Raskolnikov’s Petersburg 191
Petersburg’s Eclecticism 194
Pushkin, Gogol and Bely’s Petersburg 198
Bibliography 202
St. Petersburg and Moscow in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature 204
Revolution in Petersburg 205
Moscow and the Modernist Experiment 208
Stalinist Moscow 212
Late-Soviet Cities 216
Bibliography 220
Spain’s Literature of the City 222
Bibliography 237
Lisbon: What the Tourist Should Read 239
Pessoa, Lisboa, Portugal 239
Lisbon and the Rest of the World 242
The 1755 Earthquake and How It Shook the World 244
Interiors and Exteriors 245
Bibliography 247
Vienna 250
Introduction: The Austro-Hungarian Empire 250
Cities of the Empire 251
Freud and Viennese Modernism 254
The Man Without Qualities 257
Bachmann and Bernhard 261
Bibliography 263
Venice: Impossible City 265
Bibliography 279
Part III North American Cities 281
Introduction 38
Merging Naturalism and the Unreal: An Approach to America’s Literary Cities 287
The Naturalistic Impulse 289
The Unreal Impulse 293
Amalgamation 296
Conclusion 301
Bibliography 301
‘I Would Go to Toronto’: The City in Contemporary Writing 304
Dreams of the City: David Bezmozgis’ Natasha and Other Stories (2004) and Vincent Lam’s Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2005)
Racism, Suburbanism and Escape in Shyam Selvadurai’s The Hungry Ghosts (2013) 310
The Globalized City of Michael Dowse’s The F Word or What If (2013) and Andrew Kushnir’s Wormwood (2015) 313
Bibliography 316
Primary 316
Secondary 317
Further Reading 318
New York Fiction 319
Introduction 319
Creative Destruction and the Experience of New York City 321
Modulations of Character Transformation 324
Wall Street and 9/11 328
Conclusion 332
Bibliography 333
Part IV Latin American Cities 335
Introduction 38
The Repeating City: Urban Space in Hispanic Caribbean Literature 339
Havana: From the City of Columns to the City of Calamities 340
Santo Domingo: Rise and Fall of a Proper City 345
San Juan: Many Faces of the Imagined City 349
Bibliography 353
Mexico City 357
Complex Origins and a Founding Imaginary 357
Emerging Modernity 359
Post-Revolutionary Mexico 360
Affirming a Post-Revolutionary Consciousness 364
Notes 369
Bibliography 369
Primary Sources 369
Cities, Territories and Conflict: Narrative and the Colombian City in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century 371
Notes 379
Bibliography 379
Peru: Words Under the Fog 380
The City of the Kings 380
The Colonial Arcade 383
The Tangled Desire for Modernity 384
The Postwar Years 385
The Invisible Walls 388
Multiple Voices 391
Bibliography 393
Brasília’s Literature 395
Introduction 395
Brasília’s Unique Origin Story 397
Brasília’s Visual Surprises 399
Brasília’s Violence and Inequality 403
Conclusion 404
Bibliography 405
Rio’s Favelas: Mapping the Periphery 407
Bibliography 416
The Case of Rio de Janeiro: Exploring Geographies of Resistance and Domination 418
Rio’s Urban Development Plans and the Belle Époque 420
Lima Barreto and Different Dimensions of Social Exclusion 422
Faustini and His Affective City Map 425
Bibliography 428
São Paulo in Transit 431
Note 442
Bibliography 442
Santiago, Chile, from the Mapocho River: Landscape, Border, and Waste 444
Landscape, Territory, and Emotions 447
Bridges, Borders, and History 449
The Mapocho as a Flow of Waste 451
Closing Words 454
Bibliography 454
Buenos Aires 457
Introduction 457
Ideologeme 1: Buenos Aires is the Paris of the Southern Hemisphere 458
Ideologeme 2: Buenos Aires Kills Me 460
Ideologeme 3: God Attends Petitions Only in Buenos Aires 466
Concluding Remarks 468
Bibliography 469
Part V African Cities 471
Introduction 38
An Overview of African Cities and Writing 476
Bibliography 491
Cairo and Alexandria 493
Bibliography 502
Lagos 504
Bibliography 511
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: Cowboys, Cosmonauts and Frontiers of Capitalism 512
Colonialism and Tropical Cowboys 512
The Invisible City 514
Slum Astronauts 515
Bibliography 518
What Is the City in Africa? 520
Introduction 520
Ousmane Sembene, Borom Sarret 522
Djibril Diop Mambety, Hyenas 525
Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Quartier Mozart 528
Flora Gomes, The Children’s Republic 530
Women and the City 533
Bibliography 536
South African Cities 538
Contextualisation 538
Cape Town 540
Cityscapes 541
Pretoria 545
Cityscapes 546
Johannesburg 548
Cityscapes 549
A Footnote on Durban 554
Conclusion 555
Bibliography 555
Part VI Asian Cities 559
Introduction 38
Istanbul 564
Introduction 564
Byzantium—Constantinople—Istanbul 565
Istanbul through Western Eyes 566
Istanbul in Turkish Literature 568
Orhan Pamuk: ‘For me the centre of the world is Istanbul’ (2007, p. 414) 568
Contemporary Turkish Novelists 571
Istanbul in Turkish Poetry 571
Istanbul and Film 572
Conclusion: A Dystopian Future? 574
Note 574
Bibliography 575
Beirut 578
Beirut Awakens: 1860–1900 578
Wasted Beirut, 1920–1943 579
Global Beirut, 1950–1975 581
The Necessity and Difficulty of Writing Beirut, 1975–1990 583
Remembering Beirut, 1990– 586
Bibliography 588
India and Its Cities through the Eyes of Its Writers 589
Bibliography 595
Out of Place in Delhi: Some Vignettes of Loss 597
Had We But World Enough and Time 599
The Trauma of Dis/location 601
Home and Not-home 606
Conclusion 610
Bibliography 610
Fictional and Cinematic Representations of the Journey of Bombay to Mumbai 612
Bibliography 625
City and Country in Chinese Fiction: An Historical Survey 628
The City in Traditional Chinese Literature 629
Shanghai in Late Qing Fiction 632
The Republican Era 634
Mao Dun’s Midnight 637
The Neo-Sensationalists 639
Shanghai in Eileen Chang’s Fiction 643
Contemporary Reflections 644
Bibliography 646
A Cinematic Guide to Asian Cities: Taipei, Seoul, and the Cinema of Destruction 649
Taipei 649
Seoul 652
Jia Zhang-Ke’s 24 City and Wong Kar-Wai’s Chungking Express 655
Bibliography 658
A Megalopolis in Transit: Waterways as the Witness of Early Twentieth-Century Tokyo 661
Introduction 661
The City of Tokyo in Modernist Texts 662
Sumida River as the Symbol of Nativist Tokyo Identity 665
Akutagawa Ry?nosuke’s Sumida River as Cradle 666
The Waterfront of Fukagawa as the Locus of the Belle Époque 668
Bridges as Metonymy of Modernity 671
Conclusion 673
Bibliography 674
Primary Texts 674
Secondary Texts 674
Australasian City Writing 675
Bibliography 692
Part VII Urban Themes 694
Introduction 38
Realism and its Revelations: City Perspectives in London and Paris 697
Introduction 697
Assigned and ‘Chartered’: The City as Predetermined Space 700
Dynamic Seeing: Process and Potential 706
The Unsure Gaze of Realism: ‘What’ Am I Looking At and Who Am ‘I’? 711
Conclusion 715
Bibliography 716
Conceptualising the Modernist City 719
Particularity and Generality in the Modernist City 719
The City as a Condition for Literary Modernism 723
Cities, Networks and Empire 725
The Globalisation of Modernist Studies 728
Rabindranath Tagore in Turin 731
Bibliography 734
Travel Writing and the City 737
Bibliography 751
The Urban Connections of Crime Fiction 753
Detection Approaches the City 753
The City in Detection 756
Detection of the City 759
Variations on City Detection 762
Detecting in the Political City 765
Crime beyond the City 767
Bibliography 768
Cities Utopian, Dystopian, and Apocalyptic 771
Introduction 771
City as Re-creation of Cosmic Order 772
A Visit to Sybaris 774
Utopia, Planning, and Anti-Urbanism 776
Utopia in the Inner City 780
Urban End-Times 781
Apocalypse in the Unreal City 782
Cities after Utopia? 783
Bibliography 784
Further Reading 787
Part I: Introduction to The Palgrave Handbook to Literature and the City and The City in Theory 787
Part II: European Cities 788
Part III: North American Cities 789
Part IV: Latin American Cities 791
Part V: African Cities 794
Part VI: Asian Cities 795
Part VII: Urban Themes 797
Author Index 799
Index of Cities, Countries, Places 842

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.2.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 863 p. 3 illus.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Postcolonialism • Postmodernism • space • Subjectivity • World
• ISBN-10: 1-137-54911-4 / 1137549114
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-54911-2 / 9781137549112