New York and Toronto novels after postmodernism
Subtitle: explorations of the urban
By: Caroline Rosenthal
Series: European studies in North American literature and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781571134899
Subjects: Canadian fiction; National characteristics in literature; In literature; American fiction; History and criticism; Cities and towns in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: Imagining national space : symbolic landscapes and national canons; title: Articulating urban space : spatial politics and difference; title: "The inadequacy of symbolic surfaces": urban space, art, and corporeality in Siri Hustvedt's What I loved; title: Rewriting the melting pot : Paule Marshall's Brownstone City in The fisher king; title: Specular images : sub/urban spaces and "echoes of art" in Carol Shields's  Unless; title: "The end of traceable beginnings" : poetics of urban longing and belonging in Dionne Brand's What we all long for; title: Synthesis.