Urban Space And Representation - Softcover

Balshaw, Maria; Kennedy, Liam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745313442 ISBN 13: 9780745313443

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2000

Synopsis

Theories of urban space have become the focus of a great deal of work by scholars in cultural geography, urban studies and critical theory. This volume contributes to that debate by analysing the relationship between theories of urban space and literary and visual representations of the city – an emergent area of confluence in literary, film and cultural studies. The contributors address themes such as visual culture and spectacle; class and capital; community and public space; and nation, diaspora and belonging. Cities covered include New York, Chicago, Jerusalem, Paris, London, Birmingham and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Artists and writers discussed include Piet Mondrian, Nella Larsen, Rudolph Fisher, Amos Oz, David Grossman, Sarah Schulman, Jonathan Larsen, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Paul Auster and Wayne Wang.

About this title

About the Author

Maria Balshaw is a research fellow in American Literature at the University of Birmingham and the author of City of Refuge : Race, Urban Space and Twentieth-Century African American Literature (Pluto Press, forthcoming). Liam Kennedy is a senior lecturer in American Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745313442
• ISBN 13: 9780745313443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256