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1 Online-Ressource (239 Seiten)
ISBN:
3839435412
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9783839435410
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Lettre
Content:
Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (?DiverCity±). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, ?What We All Long For± (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, ?Native Speaker± (1995), and Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, ?Tropic of Orange± (1997), Melanie U. Pooch provides the connecting link for exploring the triad of globalization and its effects, global cities as cultural nodal points, and cultural diversity in a globalizing age as a literary phenomenon. Thus, she contributes to a global, interdisciplinary, and multi-perspectival understanding of literature, culture, and society
Content:
Cover DiverCity -- Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon; Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Globalization and Its Effects -- 2.1 Mapping Globalization -- 2.2 Global Consensus -- 2.3 Global Controversies -- 3 Global Cities as Cultural Nodal Points -- 3.1 Urban Studies -- 3.2 Cultural Nodal Points. -- 3.3 Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles 4 Cultural Diversity in a Globalizing Age -- 4.1 Concepts of Identity -- 4.2 Postcolonial Discourse -- 4.3 Intra, Inter, Multi, and Trans -- 4.4 The Melting Pot, Salad Bowl, and Canadian Mosaic -- 5 The Poetics of diverCity. -- 5.1 The Poetics of Narrative 5.2 The Poetics of Place -- 5.3 The Poetics of Code-Switching -- 6 Dionne Brand's Toronto, What We All Long For -- 6.1 The Global City of Toronto -- 6.2 Toronto Imagined: The World in a City -- 6.2.1 Polyphonic Murmuring -- 6.2.2 Converging Threads. -- 6.2.3 Mapping the World in a City 6.2.4 Counter-Cartographies -- 6.2.5 Time-Space Discrepancy -- 6.2.6 Longing and Belonging -- 6.3 Interim Conclusion -- 7 Chang-rae Lee's New York, Native Speaker -- 7.1 The Global City of New York -- 7.2 New York Imagined: A City of Wor(l)ds. -- 7.2.1 The Strangest Chorale 7.2.2 False Speaker of Language -- 7.2.3 Amiable Man -- 7.2.4 The Immigrant City -- 7.2.5 Interethnic Imagination -- 7.3 Interim Conclusion -- 8 Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, Tropic of Orange -- 8.1 The Global City of Los Angeles
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Dissertation Universität Mannheim 2015
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3837635414
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783837635416
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Pooch, Melanie U., 1982 - DiverCity - global cities as a literary phenomenon Bielefeld : [transcript], 2016 ISBN 3837635414
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783837635416
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
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Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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Ethnology
Keywords:
Brand, Dionne 1953- What we all long for
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Lee, Chang-rae 1965- Native speaker
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Yamashita, Karen Tei 1951- Tropic of orange
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Stadt
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Globalisierung
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Pooch, Melanie U. 1982-
