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Ends of the Global City

Disaffection, Displacement and the New Cultural Ecologies of the Urban

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This volume of essays explores how the global city is confronting new forms of crises and disruption. Examining cities in the Caribbean, North America, Africa, the Persian Gulf, Asia and Australia, the essays use literary and cultural analysis to examine the pasts, present and futures of the global city.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-04-24
Mått148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt411 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Comparisons in World Literature
Antal sidor211
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031775543

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Introduction.- Chapter 1: A World of Confinement and Compartments: Fanon, Césaire and the Suffocating City.- Chapter 2: Postsecular Ecology and the Global City in Chris Abani‟s The Virgin of Flames.- Chapter 3: The Gulf City in Crisis: Reimagining Migrant Labour Protests in Deepak Unnikrishnan‟s Temporary People.- Chapter 4: Food and Memory in a Global City: the Khanapados/Living Lab Project in New Delhi, by Mrityunjay Chatterjee and Sreejata Roy.- Chapter 5: Narrative Energetics and Energy Ontologies in Singapore: Powering Petro-conscious Dystopian Novels.- Chapter 6: Aesthetics of Mythorealism in Ma Jian‟s The Dark Road: The Rural Peasant in China‟s Global Cities.- Chapter 7: More Hell Than Hell‟”: Seoul, Korean Drama, and Global Imaginaries of Capitalism.- Chapter 8: Archipelago of Illegals: Sydney, Migrant Spatiality, and Aravind Adiga‟s Amnesty.- Afterword: The Global City at a Tilt.