Literature and the Glocal City - Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary

This book's most notable contribution lies in linking the notion of 'glocality', that is, the intermeshing of local and global forces to representations of subjectivity in the material and figurative space of the Canadian city. Dealing with oppositional discourses as multiculturalism, postcolonialism, feminism, diaspora, and environmentalism this book is an essential reference for any scholar with an interest in these areas.

List of contents

Introduction: Urban Glocality and the English Canadian Imaginary Ana María Fraile-Marcos 1. Mobility and its Disenchantments in Marie Clements’ The Unnatural and Accidental Women and Burning Vision Deena Rymhs 2. Embodying the Glocal: Immigrant and Indigenous Ideas of Home in Tessa McWatt’s Montreal Michèle Lacombe 3. From Rowanwood to Downtown: The Torontonians and Girls Fall Down Coral Ann Howells 4. Dystopic Urbanites: Civilian Cyborgs in TransCanadian Speculative Fictions Belén Martín-Lucas 5. The Intrinsic Potential of Glassness: Narcissistic, Opaque, Organic Modes of Signifying the Urban in Vancouver Eva Darias-Beautell 6. The Refugee as Signifier in the Semiotics of the Glocal City: Michael Helm’s Cities of Refuge Ana María Fraile-Marcos 7. Responding to Late Capitalism: The Mall Kit Dobson 8. Hipster Urbanism and Glocal Toronto Brandon McFarlane 9. Glocalization and Neoliberalism in Michael Winter’s The Architects Are Here Herb Wylie 10. Ian Fleming’s Canadian Cities George Elliott Clarke

Product details

• Authors: Ana Maria Fraile-Marcos
• Assisted by: Ana María Fraile-Marcos (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2014
• EAN: 9781138775633
• ISBN: 978-1-138-77563-3
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Canada, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Regional Studies, Literary studies: general, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general