LEADER 04332oam 2200745 c 450 001 9910433243203321 005 20230719143232.0 010 $a3-8394-3834-9 024 7 $a10.14361/9783839438343 035 $a(CKB)4340000000210859 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5116445 035 $a(DE-B1597)479895 035 $a(OCoLC)1011454072 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783839438343 035 $a(ScCtBLL)b5e302ee-2ff9-49fb-a087-7d27028f8dfb 035 $a(transcript Verlag)9783839438343 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36365 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000210859 100 $a20220221d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aActors and Networks in the Megacity$eA Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives$fPrachi More 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBielefeld$ctranscript Verlag$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (222 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aUrban Studies 311 $a3-8376-3834-0 327 $aFrontmatter 1 Table Of Contents 5 List Of Illustrations 7 Acknowledgement 9 Introduction: Urban Narratives And Bruno Latour's Empiricism 11 I. Contextualizing Contemporary Urban Narratives As Literary Documentary 21 II. Bruno Latour's 'New Empiricism' 37 III. The Poetics and Politics of Rambling in lain Sinclair's Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire 65 IV. Strategies, Spatial Trajectories And Scenography: Micro-Mapping The Megacity In Suketu Mehta's Maximum City 113 V. Of Spirals And Capitals: Sam Miller's Delhi, Adventures In A Megacity 151 Conclusion: Actor-Network Theory And Literary Criticism 181 Works Cited 199 330 $aThis study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 21st century. We encounter well-known psycho-geographers such as Iain Sinclair and Sam Miller, and renowned authors, Patrick Neate and Suketu Mehta. Prachi More analyses these authors' accounts of vastly different cities such as London, Delhi, Mumbai, Johannesburg, New York and Tokyo. Are these urban narratives a contemporary solution to documenting an ever-evasive urban reality? If so, how do they embody "matters of concern" as Latour would have put it, laying bare modern-day "actors" and "networks" rather than reporting mere "matters of fact"? These questions are drawn into an inter-disciplinary discussion that addresses concerns and questions of epistemology, the sociology of knowledge as well as urban and documentary studies. 410 $aUrban Studies 606 $aMaterialism; Realism; Documentary; Representation; Urban Cities; Global South; Bruno Latour; Actor-Network Theory; ANT; Megacity; Documenting Strategy; Narrative; Knowledge Production; Epistemology; Sociology; Literature; City; General Literature Studies; Urban Studies; Theory of Literature; Literary Studies; 610 $aANT. 610 $aActor-Network Theory. 610 $aBruno Latour. 610 $aCity. 610 $aDocumentary. 610 $aDocumenting Strategy. 610 $aEpistemology. 610 $aGeneral Literature Studies. 610 $aGlobal South. 610 $aKnowledge Production. 610 $aLiterary Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMegacity. 610 $aNarrative. 610 $aRealism. 610 $aRepresentation. 610 $aSociology. 610 $aTheory of Literature. 610 $aUrban Cities. 610 $aUrban Studies. 615 4$aMaterialism; Realism; Documentary; Representation; Urban Cities; Global South; Bruno Latour; Actor-Network Theory; ANT; Megacity; Documenting Strategy; Narrative; Knowledge Production; Epistemology; Sociology; Literature; City; General Literature Studies; Urban Studies; Theory of Literature; Literary Studies; 676 $a810 686 $aHG 430$2rvk 700 $aMore$b Prachi$4aut$0906432 712 02$aKnowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2019: Backlist Collection$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910433243203321 996 $aActors and Networks in the Megacity$92027080 997 $aUNINA