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Brooklyn Fictions: The Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age
Dr James Peacock
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Description for Brooklyn Fictions: The Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age
Hardback. Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the City. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 halftone illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 576.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Bloomsbury Studies in the City
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441132536
SKU
V9781441132536
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About Dr James Peacock
James Peacock is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literatures at Keele University in the UK. He is the author of Jonathan Lethem (2012) and has published widely on contemporary American fiction, detective fiction and transatlantic literary relations.
Reviews for Brooklyn Fictions: The Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age
The first monograph that exclusively and specifically deals with ... "books about Brooklyn" ... Peacock's pioneering effort is coupled with his interdisciplinary approach of analysing representations of Brooklyn by making use of literary analysis and enriching it with the approaches of literary sociology and sociological theory ... [Its] well-executed interdisciplinary approaches, rich analyses, and structural inventiveness combine ... [to] make ... Read more