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Ato Quayson, Jini Kim Watson - The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature

Av Ato Quayson, Jini Kim Watson

Del i serien Cambridge Companions to Literature

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This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three theoretical chapters, each chapter focuses on a particular city in the Global North or Global South, and brings World Literary debates-on translation, literary networks, imperial and migrant imaginaries, centers and peripheries-into conversation with the urban literary histories of Beijing, Bombay/Mumbai, Dublin, Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Lagos, London, Mexico City, Moscow and St Petersburg, New York, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney.
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Ato Quayson is the Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Chair of the Department of English at Stanford. He has published 6 monographs and 8 edited collections. His latest book is Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature (CUP, 2021). He is an elected member of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, and of the British Academy. Jini Kim Watson is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization (Fordham UP, 2021) and The New Asian City: Three-dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form (U Minnesota P, 2011). She has also co-edited, with Gary Wilder, The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Fordham UP, 2018).

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