A32=Aurore Clavier
A32=Claire Fabre-Clark
A32=Marie Bouchet
A32=Nathalie Cochoy
A32=Nicolas P. Boileau
A32=Véronique Béghain
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Contemporary urban culture
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Suburbia
Urban development
Urban philosophy
Urban poetics
Urban Studies
Urbanisation
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- ISBN 9781683933021
- Weight: 581g
- Dimensions: 164 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2022
- Publisher: Associated University Presses
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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While suburbs provide a rich field of research for sociologists, architects, urbanists and anthropologists, they have not been given much attention in literary and cultural studies. The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives sets out to enrich the limited existing body of critical analysis on the subject with a landmark collection of essays offering a far larger perspective than the books or collections published so far on the topic. This interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach includes literary and art studies, philosophy, and cultural comment. It examines the suburbs across cultural differences, contrasting British, South African and North American suburbs. The specificity of this book therefore lies in a cross-national and cross-continental exploration of these unchartered territories. The suburbs are redefined as those rebellious margins whose geographical borders are necessarily fuzzy and sketch out a common place where cultural frontiers can be transcended. They are, to use Sarah Nuttall’s terminology, places of “entanglement” where contraries meet and where new ways of being in the world is reborn. Seen through the prism of art and literature, the suburbs may then be recognized, as philosopher Bruce Bégout argues, as a “new way of thinking and making urban space.”
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.
