DiverCity global cities as a literary phenomenon : Toronto New York and Los Angeles in a globalizing age Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (DiverCity±). By analyzing Dionne Brands Toronto What We All Long For± (2005) Chang rae Lees New York Native Speaker± (1995) and Karen Tei Yamashitas Los Angeles Tropic of Orange± (1997) Melanie U. Pooch provides the connecting link for exploring the triad of globalization and its effects global cities as cultural nodal points and cultural diversity in a globalizing age as a literary phenomenon. Thus she contributes to a global interdisciplinary and multi perspectival understanding of literature culture and society Cover DiverCity Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon; Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 Globalization and Its Effects 2.1 Mapping Globalization 2.2 Global Consensus 2.3 Global Controversies 3 Global Cities as Cultural Nodal Points 3.1 Urban Studies 3.2 Cultural Nodal Points. 3.3 Toronto New York and Los Angeles 4 Cultural Diversity in a Globalizing Age 4.1 Concepts of Identity 4.2 Postcolonial Discourse 4.3 Intra Inter Multi and Trans 4.4 The Melting Pot Salad Bowl and Canadian Mosaic 5 The Poetics of diverCity. 5.1 The Poetics of Narrative 5.2 The Poetics of Place 5.3 The Poetics of Code Switching 6 Dionne Brands Toronto What We All Long For 6.1 The Global City of Toronto 6.2 Toronto Imagined: The World in a City 6.2.1 Polyphonic Murmuring 6.2.2 Converging Threads. 6.2.3 Mapping the World in a City 6.2.4 Counter Cartographies 6.2.5 Time Space Discrepancy 6.2.6 Longing and Belonging 6.3 Interim Conclusion 7 Chang rae Lees New York Native Speaker 7.1 The Global City of New York 7.2 New York Imagined: A City of Wor(l)ds. 7.2.1 The Strangest Chorale 7.2.2 False Speaker of Language 7.2.3 Amiable Man 7.2.4 The Immigrant City 7.2.5 Interethnic Imagination 7.3 Interim Conclusion 8 Karen Tei Yamashitas Los Angeles Tropic of Orange 8.1 The Global City of Los Angeles