The Cambridge companion to the city in world literature / edited by Ato Quayson, Jini Kim Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quayson, Ato, editor.

Watson, Jini Kim, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns in literature.

City and town life in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlix, 319 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three theoretical chapters, each chapter focuses on a particular city in the Global North or Global South, and brings World Literary debates-on translation, literary networks, imperial and migrant imaginaries, centers and peripheries-into conversation with the urban literary histories of Beijing, Bombay/Mumbai, Dublin, Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Lagos, London, Mexico City, Moscow and St Petersburg, New York, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Contributors

Chronology of Political, Literary, and Cultural Events

1 Introduction: World Literature, Cities, and Urban Imaginaries

City Worlds

Itineraries

Note on the Text

Notes

Part I Critical Approaches

2 Chicago Schools: The Skyscraper in Translation

Wheat

News

Oil

Coda: Guests

3 Writing the Manichean City from Colonial to Global Metropolis

The Manichean City

José Rizal and Colonial Worlding in the Spanish Philippines

Kim Chi-ha and the Architecture of Neocolonialism

Millennium City and its Discontents

4 The Urban Itinerary and the City Map: The Experience of Metropolitan Space

Part II Spotlight Literary Cities

5 The Neighborhood and the Sweatshop: Immigrant and Diasporic Rites of Passage in the Literature of New York

The Neighborhood: Harlem in Toni Morrison's Jazz

La Factoría in Melissa Rivero's The Affairs of the Falcóns

New York and World Literature

6 "The Whole World in Little": London as the Capital of World Literature

"The Whole Empire in Little"

"Neither Forward Nor Backward"

"Smoking Cities"

"History's Bubbles"

Recreating London

Re-Worlding London

7 Unworlding Paris: Flânerie and Epistemic Encounters from Baudelaire to Gauz

Parisian Modernity and Exilic Unworlding

"To hell with Geography and the Sorbonne": Knowing the City in A Few Nights and Days

Debout payé and the Forms of City Observation

Conclusion

8 Sketching the City with Words: Istanbul Through Time in Turkish Literary Texts

A Treasury of Worldly Beauties

Early Ottoman Writings on Istanbul

The View of Visitors

A Modern City - Modern Ottoman Literature

Istanbul in the Early Republican Era

Epilogue: Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul.

Notes

9 Romance and Liminal Space in the Twentieth-Century Cairo Novel

On Balconies

On the Hara

On the Rooftop

10 Bombay/Mumbai and its Multilingual Literary Pathways to the World

Mumbai's duniya in World Literature

Dhasal, "Man you should explode"

11 At Home in the World: Singapore's Literary Translocality

Port/City

The Literary City in the World

Translocalism and Translation

The City's Texts

12 Imagining the Migrant in Twenty-First Century Johannesburg

The Indeterminate City

The Hostile City

The Speculative City

13 Russia: Borders and Centers

Prologue: Kyiv/Kiev, Provinces/Capitals

Moscow: Fortress at the Center of the World

Petersburg: Civilization at the End of the Earth

14 "Cityful Passing Away": Resituating Dublin

15 From Altepetl to Megacity: Narrating Mexico City as World Literature

The City from the Distance

The Layered City

The Forastero's Gaze

The Growing City

The Boundless City

16 (In)Visible Beijing Within and Without World Literature

17 Worlding Lagos in the Long Twentieth Century

The "Problem" of Lagos: A Brief History

Literary Lagos in the Mid-Century

Writing Contemporary Lagos Under Neoliberalism

18 Haunted Vitality: Sydney, Colonial Modernity, and World Literature

Haunted Harbour: Interwar Sydney

Rolling Year Zero: Fictions of Sydney's Colonial Frontier

Greater Suburban Sydney: A Tale of Two Cities

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Jul 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-009-05834-7

1-009-05854-1

1-009-04788-4