Part II: Spotlight literary cities -- Haunted vitality: Sydney, colonial modrnity, and world literature/ Brigid Rooney Ato Quayson -- Part I: Critical Approaches -- Chicago schools: the skyscraper in translation/ Reinhold Martin -- Writing the manichean city from colonial to global metropolis/ Jini Kim Watson -- The urban itinerary and the city map: the experience of metropolitan space/ Robert T. Tilly Jr. -- Part II: Spotlight literary cities -- The neighborhood and the sweatshop: immigrant and the diasporic rites of passage in the literature of New York/ Ato Quayson -- :"The whole world in little": London as the capital of world literature/ Rashmi Varma -- Unworlding Paris: Flanerie and epistemic encounters from Baudelaire to Gauz/ Ruth Bush -- Sketching the city with words: Istanbul through time in Turkish lierary texts/ Hatice Aynur -- Romance in liminal space in the twentieth-century Cairo novel/ Noor Naga -- Bombay, Mumbai and its multilingual literary pathways to the world/ Anjali Nerlekar -- At home in the world: Singapore's literary translocality / Philip Holden -- Imagining the migrant in twenty-first-century Johannesburg/ Megan Jones -- Russia: borders and centers/ Anne Lounsbery -- "Cityful passing away": resituating Dublin/ Christopher Morash -- From Altepetl to Megacity: narrating Mexico City as world literature/ Maŕía Moreno Carranco, J́ose Ramón Ruisánchez Serra -- (In)visible Beijing within and without world literature/ Weijie Song -- Worlding Lagos in the long twentieth century/ Madhu Krishman -- Haunted vitality: Sydney, colonial modrnity, and world literature/ Brigid Rooney
Summary:
"Through a series of chapters spanning a number of metropolises across the globe, this book addresses the way cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic and global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to debates in World Literature"-- Provided by publisher.
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