New Suburban Stories

Martin Dines is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University, UK. He is the author of Gay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture (2009).Timotheus Vermeulen is Assistant Professor in Cultural Theory and Director of the Centre for New Aesthetics at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

• Introduction: NewSuburban Stories, Martin Dines and Timotheus Vermeulen \ Part I: Delineatingthe Margins \ 1. Mapping the Suburbs: Cartographic Representationof Villa Celina, Buenos Aires, 1955-2011, Adriana Massidda \ 2. From Riots to Designer Shoes: Tout ce quibrille/All that Glitters (2010) and Changing Representations of the Banlieue in French Cinema, Carrie Tarr \ 3. EnteringNo-Go Areas: Suburbs in Contemporary German Literature, Caroline Merkel \ 4. J.G.Ballard: The ‘Seer of Shepperton' as the Seer of Suburbia, Jarrad Keyes \ Part II: The Past in its Place \ 5. The ShiftingGround of Commemoration in an Australian Suburb, Hannah Lewi and CarolineJordan \ 6.The Future and Come and Gone: Managing Change in the AgingSuburbs, Alan Mace \ 7. Where the HeartIs: Cinema and Civic Life in Singapore, GaikKhoo \ PartIII: Aesthetics of Affect \ 8.‘The Shhh of Sprays On All the Little Lawns': Imaginingthe Post-War American Suburbs, Joanna Gill \ 9. ‘Nothing Seemed Familiar, Yet EverythingWas Very, Very Familiar': Rethinking Bill Owens's Suburbia, Bridget Gilman 10. ‘A More Interesting Surgery on the Suburbs': Richard Ford's Paean to theNew Jersey Periphery, Tim Foster \ 11. Ordinary Geographies: Trajectories of Affectin the Work of Kathleen Stewart and D.J. Waldie, NeilCampbell \ PartIV: Suburban Communities and Cultural Production \ 12. A Chicken Ain't Nothin' Buta Bird: Animals, Suburbia and the Evolving Terrain of Production, Consumption,and Representation, Hugh Bartling \ 13. Kvart KVART: Art Activism at the Urban Peripheryin Croatia, Dalibor Prancevic \ 14. ‘MANS IS ON STAGE': Rappers as Disseminators of (Sub)UrbanLanguage Varieties, Nichola Smalley \ 15. The Goat Boy of Mount Seething: Heritageand the English Suburbs, Helen Wickstead \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index.