Brooklyn Fictions
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Brooklyn Fictions

The Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age

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Brooklyn Fictions

The Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age

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About This Book

Vast and diverse, Brooklyn is often portrayed in literature as a place of traditional community values and face-to-face relations, distinct from anonymous, capital-driven Manhattan. Brooklyn Fictions discovers what such representations of the New York borough can teach us about diversity and the individual, the local and the global. Combining analysis of popular texts such as Sister Souljah's The Coldest Winter Ever with more canonical novels such as Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude, this study draws on the work of a variety of theorists on community and globalization and uses Brooklyn as a case study for an exploration of the complex relationship between romantic ideals of community and global economic forces. With cites often depicted as sites of conflict and fear, this is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the contemporary urban community and the ethical issues involved in conceptualizing and portraying it in literature.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2014
ISBN
9781472590763
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. Acknowledgement
  6. Introduction
  7. A Small Town in the World City
  8. How to Read Brooklyn—Leaving Brooklyn
  9. (Anti)mythic Community—Season at Coole and The Brooklyn Book of the Dead
  10. Divisions—Brooklyn Crime
  11. Old Frontiers and New Picturesques—Fictions of Brooklyn Gentrification
  12. “Brooklyn Style”—Race, Authenticity, and Urban Space
  13. Reaching Out, Reaching In—Transnational Brooklyn in Geographies of Home, Brooklyn, and Girl in Landscape
  14. Conclusions and Further Thoughts
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. Copyright