Suburbs

Marie Bouchet is associate professor of American literature and art at the University of Toulouse.Nathalie Cochoy is professor of American literature at the University of Toulouse.Isabelle Keller-Privat is professor of English literature and poetry at the University Toulouse.Mathilde Rogez is associate professor of South and Southern African literature and post-colonial studies at the University of Toulouse.

• Chapter 1“Introduction”, M. Bouchet, N. Cochoy, I. Keller-Privat, M. RogezPART I Challenging the visibleChapter 2“‘Who wrote the bit about the buffalo?’: Edgelands and the Question of Joint Authorship”, Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts (with an introduction by Isabelle Keller-Privat)Chapter 3“The Poetics of the Suburbs in Ian Sinclair’s London Orbital”, Jean-Michel GanteauChapter 4“(Sub)urban Space and the Contemporary American Novel”, Heinz IckstadtChapter 5“Suburbia According to John Cheever: from Distinction to Indistinction”, Véronique BéghainChapter 6“‘The fingerprinting of phantoms’: A Poetics of the Commonplace in Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides (1993)”, Jérémy PotierPART II Nowhere land?Chapter 7“‘Those who prefer the Human Tragedy to the Human Comedy’: Humour in London Suburban Fiction”, Ged PopeChapter 8“Suburbia, or Para-urbia: On Some Contemporary British Writers’ Representations of Suburban Spaces”, Nicolas Pierre BoileauChapter 9“Intermediate Space