Brooklyn Fictions

The Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

AvJames Peacock,UK) Peacock, Dr James (Keele University,Lawrence Phillips

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Vast and diverse, Brooklyn is often portrayed in literature as a place of traditional community values and face-to-face relations, distinct from anonymous, capital-driven Manhattan. Brooklyn Fictions discovers what such representations of the New York borough can teach us about diversity and the individual, the local and the global.Combining analysis of popular texts such as Sister Souljah’s The Coldest Winter Ever with more canonical novels such as Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude, this study draws on the work of a variety of theorists on community and globalization and uses Brooklyn as a case study for an exploration of the complex relationship between romantic ideals of community and global economic forces. With cites often depicted as sites of conflict and fear, this is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the contemporary urban community and the ethical issues involved in conceptualizing and portraying it in literature.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-11-20
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt572 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury Studies in the City
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781441132536

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IntroductionChapter 1: A Small Town in the World CityChapter 2: How to Read Brooklyn: Leaving BrooklynChapter 3: (Anti)Mythic Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Book of the DeadChapter 4 Divisions: Brooklyn CrimeChapter 5: New Picturesques: Fictions of Brooklyn GentrificationChapter 6: “Brooklyn Style”: Race and Urban Space in The Fortress of Solitude, Man Gone Down and The Coldest Winter Ever Chapter 7: Reaching Out, Reaching In: Transnational Brooklyn in Geographies of Home, Brooklyn and Girl in Landscape Conclusions and Further ThoughtsIndex

The first monograph that exclusively and specifically deals with ... "books about Brooklyn" ... Peacock's pioneering effort is coupled with his interdisciplinary approach of analysing representations of Brooklyn by making use of literary analysis and enriching it with the approaches of literary sociology and sociological theory ... [Its] well-executed interdisciplinary approaches, rich analyses, and structural inventiveness combine ... [to] make for worthwhile and insightful reading for anyone interested in New York City or cultural representations of urban spaces, in general.