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Title:

Twenty-first-century British fiction and the city / Magali Cornier Michael, editor.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xi, 252 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

2000-2099
English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature--21st century--History and criticism.
British literature--21st century--History and criticism.
British literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
English fiction.
Literature.
Great Britain--In literature.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Welsh, Louise,--1965-

Other Authors:

Michael, Magali Cornier, editor. edt

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

11. Introduction: Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the City / Philip Tew. 2. Trauma, Negativities, and the City in Trezza Azzopardi's Remember Me / 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 Bernardine 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.

Summary:

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.

Series:

Literary urban studies

ISBN:

3319897276
9783319897271

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1043434458

LCCN:

2018938330

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)