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Waste Matters: Urban margins in contemporary literature: Routledge Environmental Humanities

Autor Sarah Harrison
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mar 2019
How do those pushed to the margins survive in contemporary cities? What role do they play in today’s increasingly complex urban ecosystems? Faced with stark disparities in human and environmental wellbeing, what form might more equitable cities take?
Waste Matters argues that contemporary literature and film offer an insightful and timely response to these questions through their formal and thematic revaluation of urban waste. In their creation of a new urban imaginary which centres on discarded things, degraded places and devalued people, authors and artists such as Patrick Chamoiseau, Chris Abani, Dinaw Mengestu, Suketu Mehta and Vik Muniz suggest opportunities for an inclusive urban politics that demands systematic analysis. Waste Matters assesses the utopian promise and pragmatic limitations of their as yet under-examined work in light of today’s pressing urban challenges.
This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of English Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Urban Studies, Environmental Humanities and Film Studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367271220
ISBN-10: 0367271222
Pagini: 140
Ilustrații: 8
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Environmental Humanities

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

1. Introduction: Locating Urban Waste  2. ‘Anything could turn out to be something’: Gleaning Slum History in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco  3. ‘Suspended City’: Personal, Urban and National Development in Chris Abani’s Graceland  4. ‘A New Heightened Sense of Place’: Dinaw Mengestu’s Cognitive Map of Washington, D.C.  5. Seeing the Obvious? Contradictory Visibilities in Indian City Literature  6. Spectacular Trash: Contemporary Remediations of Global Urban Waste

Descriere

Focusing on work by Patrick Chamoiseau, Chris Abani, Dinaw Mengestu, Suketu Mehta and Vik Muniz, Waste Matters argues that contemporary literature and film offer an insightful and timely response to these questions through their formal and thematic revaluation of ‘urban waste’, both physical and metaphorical.