Actors and Networks in the Megacity: A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives

Prachi More

book: Actors and Networks in the Megacity

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2017

Actors and Networks in the Megacity

A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives

Prachi More
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2019: Backlist Collection

In the series Urban Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839438343

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About this book

This study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 21st century. We encounter well-known psycho-geographers such as Iain Sinclair and Sam Miller, and renowned authors, Patrick Neate and Suketu Mehta. Prachi More analyses these authors' accounts of vastly different cities such as London, Delhi, Mumbai, Johannesburg, New York and Tokyo. Are these urban narratives a contemporary solution to documenting an ever-evasive urban reality? If so, how do they embody "matters of concern" as Latour would have put it, laying bare modern-day "actors" and "networks" rather than reporting mere "matters of fact"? These questions are drawn into an inter-disciplinary discussion that addresses concerns and questions of epistemology, the sociology of knowledge as well as urban and documentary studies.

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Prachi More (PhD) taught at the English Studies Department at the University of Tubingen, Germany. Her research interests include New Materialisms, Smart Cities and Weird Fiction.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table Of Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
List Of Illustrations Open Access Download PDF	7
Acknowledgement Open Access Download PDF	9
Introduction: Urban Narratives And Bruno Latour’s Empiricism Open Access Download PDF	11
I. Contextualizing Contemporary Urban Narratives As Literary Documentary Open Access Download PDF	21
II. Bruno Latour’s ‘New Empiricism’ Open Access Download PDF	37
III. The Poetics and Politics of Rambling in lain Sinclair’s Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire Open Access Download PDF	65
IV. Strategies, Spatial Trajectories And Scenography: Micro-Mapping The Megacity In Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City Open Access Download PDF	113
V. Of Spirals And Capitals: Sam Miller’s Delhi, Adventures In A Megacity Open Access Download PDF	151
Conclusion: Actor-Network Theory And Literary Criticism Open Access Download PDF	181
Works Cited Open Access Download PDF	199

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 220
Keywords: Realism; Documentary; Representation; Urban Cities; Global South; Bruno Latour; Actor-Network Theory; ANT; Megacity; Documenting Strategy; Narrative; Knowledge Production; Epistemology; Sociology; Literature; City; General Literature Studies; Urban Studies; Theory of Literature; Literary Studies

eBook

Published: October 27, 2017
ISBN: 9783839438343