Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Imagining National Space: Symbolic Landscapes and National Canons
- 2 Articulating Urban Space: Spatial Politics and Difference
- 3 “The Inadequacy of Symbolic Surfaces”: Urban Space, Art, and Corporeality in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved
- 4 Rewriting the Melting Pot: Paule Marshall's Brownstone City in The Fisher King
- 5 Specular Images: Sub/Urban Spaces and “Echoes of Art” in Carol Shields's Unless
- 6 “The End of Traceable Beginnings”: Poetics of Urban Longing and Belonging in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For
- 7 Synthesis
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Imagining National Space: Symbolic Landscapes and National Canons
- 2 Articulating Urban Space: Spatial Politics and Difference
- 3 “The Inadequacy of Symbolic Surfaces”: Urban Space, Art, and Corporeality in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved
- 4 Rewriting the Melting Pot: Paule Marshall's Brownstone City in The Fisher King
- 5 Specular Images: Sub/Urban Spaces and “Echoes of Art” in Carol Shields's Unless
- 6 “The End of Traceable Beginnings”: Poetics of Urban Longing and Belonging in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For
- 7 Synthesis
- Bibliography
- Index
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- New York and Toronto Novels after PostmodernismExplorations of the Urban, pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2011