The Literature of Suburban Change: Narrating Spatial Complexity in Metropolitan America (Modern American Literature the New Twentieth Century) - Hardcover

Dines, Martin

 
9781474426480: The Literature of Suburban Change: Narrating Spatial Complexity in Metropolitan America (Modern American Literature the New Twentieth Century)
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ISBN 10: 1474426484 ISBN 13: 9781474426480
Verlag: EDINBURGH UNIV PR, 2020

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Explores how American writers articulate the complexity of twentieth-century suburbia

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Martin Dines is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University London. He is the author of Gay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture: Homecoming Queens, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and New Suburban Stories co-edited with Timotheus Vermeulen, (Bloomsbury, 2013).



Martin Dines is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University London.

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‘In this impressive study, Dines looks beyond commonplace perceptions of the American suburbs – and beyond the familiar suburban canon. He takes a range of narrative forms, including memoirs, comics and plays, and with a deftness of touch, and striking acuity, shows us how and why the suburbs continue to matter.’Jo Gill, University of ExeterExplores how American writers articulate the complexity of twentieth-century suburbiaThe Literature of Suburban Change examines the diverse body of cultural material produced since 1960 responding to the defining habitat of twentieth-century USA: the suburbs. Martin Dines analyses how writers have innovated across a range of forms and genres – including novel sequences, memoirs, plays, comics and short story cycles – in order to make sense of the complexity of suburbia. Drawing on insights from recent historiography and cultural geography, Dines offers a new perspective on the literary history of the US suburbs. He argues that by giving time back to these apparently timeless places, writers help reactivate the suburbs, presenting them not as fixed, finished and familiar but rather as living, multifaceted environments that are still in production and under exploration.Martin Dines is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University London.Cover image: HERE by Richard McGuire. Copyright © 2014, Richard McGuire, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) LimitedCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-2648-0Barcode

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EDINBURGH UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1474426484
ISBN 13 
9781474426480
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