New York and Toronto Novels After Postmodernism - Explorations of the Urban

List of contents

Introduction
Imagining National Space: Symbolic Landscapes andNational Canons
Articulating Urban Space: Spatial Politics and Difference
"The Inadequacy of Symbolic Surfaces": Urban Space, Art,and Corporeality in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved
Rewriting the Melting Pot: Paule Marshall's BrownstoneCity in The Fisher King
Specular Images: Sub/Urban Spaces and "Echoes of Art"in Carol Shields's Unless
"The End of Traceable Beginnings": Poetics of UrbanLonging and Belonging in Dionne Brand's What We AllLong For
Synthesis
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Caroline Rosenthal

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Rosenthal
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2011
• EAN: 9781571134899
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-489-9
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 238 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 661 g
• Series: European Studies in North Amer
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories