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Lena Mattheis - Translocality in Contemporary City Novels

English | 2021 | Palgrave Macmillan | ISBN: 9783030666866 (ISBN10: 3030666867) | 261 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly characterised by translocality―the layering and blending of two or more distant settings. Considering translocal and transcultural writing as a global phenomenon, this book draws on multidisciplinary research, from globalisation theory to the study of narratives to urban studies, to explore a corpus of thirty-two novels―by authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dionne Brand, Kiran Desai, and Xiaolu Guo―set in a total of ninety-seven cities. Lena Mattheis examines six of the most common strategies used in contemporary urban fiction to make translocal experiences of the world narratable and turn them into relatable simultaneity, palimpsests, mapping, scaling, non-places, and haunting. Combining and developing further theories, approaches, and techniques from a variety of research fields―including narratology, human geography, transculturality, diaspora spaces, and postcolonial perspectives―Mattheis develops a set of cross-disciplinary techniques in literary urban studies.


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