The Literature of Suburban Change: Narrating Spatial Complexity in Metropolitan America - Couverture rigide

Dines, Martin

 
9781474426480: The Literature of Suburban Change: Narrating Spatial Complexity in Metropolitan America

Synopsis

The Literature of Suburban Change examines the diverse body of cultural material produced since 1960 responding to the defining habitat of twentieth-century USA: the suburbs. Martin Dines analyses how writers have innovated across a range of forms and genres - including novel sequences, memoirs, plays, comics and short story cycles - in order to make sense of the complexity of suburbia. Drawing on insights from recent historiography and cultural geography, Dines offers a new perspective on the literary history of the US suburbs. He argues that by giving time back to these apparently timeless places, writers help reactivate the suburbs, presenting them not as fixed, finished and familiar but rather as living, multifaceted environments that are still in production and under exploration.

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À propos de l?auteur

Martin Dines is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University London.

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9781474426497: The Literature of Suburban Change: Narrating Spatial Complexity in Metropolitan America

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ISBN 10 :  1474426492 ISBN 13 :  9781474426497
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2022
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