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Toward Diversity and Emancipation
DiverCity—Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon
Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles in a Globalizing Age
MARCEL THOENE
MELANIE U. POOCH
This book focuses on the pivotal role that space and spatiality play in the plot and narrative discourse of contemporary United States literary narratives. Marcel Thoene hypothesizes that the canon of novels selected represents a dialectic of simultaneous affirmation and subversion of the American myth of space. This brings about an integrative and emancipatory function of space that reflects a more transcultural, diverse, and conflicting postnational American society.
This work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon based on the reading of selected North American novels. Analyzing Dionne Brand’s Toronto in What We All Long For, Chang-rae Lee’s New York in Native Speaker, and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Los Angeles in Tropic of Orange, Melanie U. Pooch explores globalization and its effects, global cities as cultural nodal points, and cultural diversity in a globalizing age as a literary phenomenon.
MARCEL THOENE
studied English and American literature
MELANIE U. POOCH
earned her doctoral degree at the
University of Mannheim, Germany.
at Bielefeld University, Germany, and SUNY Albany.
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LITERARY STUDIES
LITERARY STUDIES
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F O R S A L E O N LY I N T H E U N I T E D S TAT E S , C A N A D A , M E X I C O , C E N T R A L A M E R I C A , SOUTH AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND ASIA
(Re-)Narrating Space in the Contemporary American Novel
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