Resistance and the city : negotiating urban identities: race, class, and gender / edited by Christoph Ehland, Pascal Fischer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ehland, Christoph, editor.

Fischer, Pascal, editor.

Series:

Spatial practices ; 28.

Spatial practices : an interdisciplinary series in cultural history, geography and literature, 1871-689X ; Volume 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

City and town life in literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Marginality, Social, in literature.

City and town life in motion pictures.

Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures.

Marginality, Social, in motion pictures.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 219 pages ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Negotiating urban identities: race, class, and gender

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]

Summary:

"The contributions collected in the second volume of Resistance and the City are devoted to the three markers of identity that cultural studies has recognised as paramount for our understanding of difference, inequality, and solidarity in modern societies: race, class, and gender. These categories, tightly linked to the mechanics of power, domination and subordination, have often played an eminent role in contemporary struggles and clashes in urban space. The confluence of people from diverse ethnic, social, and sexual backgrounds in the city has not only raised their awareness of a variety of life concepts and motivated them to negotiate their own positions, but has also encouraged them to develop strategies of resistance against patterns of social and spatial exclusion. Contributors: Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz, Barbara Korte, Anna Lienen, Gill Plain, Frank Erik Pointner, Katrin Röder, Ingrid von Rosenberg, Mark Schmitt, Ralf Schneider, Christoph Singer, Sabine Smith, Merle Tönnies, Ger Zielinski" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

General introduction / Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer

Introduction: negotiating urban space / Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer

Part 1. Race and ethnicity

Black citizens

British Sspaces : Sstruggles in the 1970s and 1980s and cinematic representations / Ingrid von Rosenberg

Resisting topographies: mmigration, space and the city in contemporary British film / Ralf Schneider

Heterotopias as spaces of resistance in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981) / Katrin Roder

Changing uses of the city in contemporary Black British novels / Merle Tonnies and Anna Lienen

Part 2. Social Class

"Poor is cool": the working-classes as myth in Pulp's "Common People" / Christoph Singer

Chavs: the clash of social classes in urban Britain / Frank Erik Pointner

The other Dublin: homelessness, abject comedy and challenges to the urban order in Lenny Abrahamson's Adam & Paul (2004) / Mark Schmitt 8

In the ghetto: inequality, riots and resistance in London-based science fiction of the twenty-first century / Barbara Korte

Part 3. Gender and Sexuality

'Lost to the streets': violence, space and gender in urban crime fiction / Gill Plain

The urban residential balcony as interstitial site / Sabine H. Smith

Muslims against gays? Faith, sexuality, resistance and London's East End / Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz

Scenic subversions: on Bruce LaBruce's re-queering of That Cold Day in the Park / Ger Zielinski.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Resistance and the city

ISBN:

9789004369290

9004369295

OCLC:

1044771158