Literature and the Glocal City (eBook, PDF)

Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary
Redaktion: Fraile-Marcos, Ana María

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The modern city is a space that can simultaneously represent the principles of its homeland alongside its own unique blend of the cultures that intermingle within its city limits.

This book makes an intervention in Canadian literary criticism by foregrounding both 'globalism,' which is increasingly perceived as the state-of-the-art literary paradigm, and the city. These are two significant axes of contemporary culture and identity that were previously disregarded by a critical tradition built around the importance of space and place in Canadian writing. Yet, as relevant as the turn to the city and to globalism may be, this collection'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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317682165
• Artikelnr.: 41214556

Autorenporträt

Ana María Fraile-Marcos is Associate Professor of English at the University of Salamanca, Spain

Inhaltsangabe

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