Research Catalog

Title

Cityscapes in the Americas and beyond : representations of urban complexity in literature and film / Jens Martin Gurr, Wilfried Raussert (eds.).

Publication

Tempe, AZ : Bilingual Press/ Editorial Bilingüe, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• Gurr, Jens Martin, 1974-
• Raussert, Wilfried

Description

vii, 291 p. : ill. map; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Inter-American studies = Estudios interamericanos ; v. 4

Uniform Title

Inter-American studies v. 4.

Subject

• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• City and town life in literature
• Inner cities in literature
• Cities and towns in literature
• Public spaces in literature
• City and town life in motion pictures
• Cities and towns in motion pictures

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Jens Martin Gurr, Wilfried Raussert -- The literary representation of urban complexity and the problem of simultaneity: a sketchy inventory of strategies / Jens Martin Gurr -- Literary imaginaries of urban complexity. Cracks in the urban utopia: the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 in Thomas Pynchon's Against the day / Utku Mohultay -- Paul Auster's In the country of last things: a journey into a thousand heterotopias and flows of becoming / Hattice Bay -- The provincial metropolis: the function of the urban as dynamic agency in Paul Auster's The Brooklyn follies / Bianca Brinkmann, Marcel Thoene -- Performing New York, narrating urban complexity: E. L. Doctorow's Homer and Langley / Stefanie Weymann -- The transcultural novel and the urban complexity of Los Angeles: narrative transculturation and Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange / Melanie U. Pooch --^
• Global cities and cosmopolitanism re-visited: inter-American mobility in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange / Wilfried Raussert -- Spaces of violence: the construction of the cityscape in Lyonel Trouillot's fiction / Julia Borst -- The city from afar: representations of urbanity in recent Indian American literature / Christina Seeliger -- Psychogeography and (in)sanity: walking London, New York, and Dubai with will self / Marcus Hartner -- Simultaneous narratives: re-storing Jewish American memory in Berlin / Joshua Parker -- Entractes: intermedial explorations of urban complexity. Urban identity in a state of flux: strategies of representing simultaneity, chaos, and complexity in extremely loud & incredibly close / Berit Michel -- Deep gutters and monolithic blocks: representations of urban complexity in Eric Drooker's graphic art / Frank Erik Pointner --^
• Conflicting imaginaries of urban socio-cultural complexity: diversity and division in contemporary U.S.-American cultural production / Christoph Schaub -- Celluloid complexcities. Berlin, a mazing metropolis: representations in films of the Weimar Republic / Betsy Van Schlun -- "Architectural jungle" or the "sum of its people"? policing post-war urban space in Anthony Mann's Side street (1950) / Bond Love -- The cinematic city: the point of arrival as a clash of spaces in the films Midnight cowboy, Great expectations, and Day night day night / Miriam Brandel ... [et al.] -- Mexico City: public and private spaces in four female filmmakers / Graciela Martinez-Zalce -- Megacities of fear: spaces of transgression in Cidade de deus, Amores perros, and Crash / Josef Raab.

ISBN

• 9781931010825 (alk. paper)
• 193101082X (alk. paper)
• 9783868213249 (alk. paper)
• 3868213244 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011026993

OCLC

• 746154034
• SCSB-10916036

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library