The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives - Hardcover

Véronique Béghain; Nicolas P. Boileau; Marie Bouchet; Aurore Clavier; Nathalie Cochoy; Claire Fabre-Clark; Paul Farley; Olivier Gaudin; James Gifford; Heinz Ickstadt; Nathalie Jaëck; Isabelle Keller-Privat; Bastien Meresse; Stacey Olster; Ged Pope; Jérémy Potier; Mathilde Rogez; Richard Samin; Michael Symmons Roberts; Ivan Vladislavić

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1683933028 ISBN 13: 9781683933021

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2021

Synopsis

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.”

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About the Authors

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 at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès where she teaches British literature, travel writing, poetry, and translation.

Mathilde Rogez is associate professor of South and Southern African literature and post-colonial studies at the University of Toulouse.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1683933028
• ISBN 13: 9781683933021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 298
• Editor: Marie Bouchet, Nathalie Cochoy, Isabelle Keller-Privat, Mathilde Rogez