LEADER 04575oam 2201045 c 450 001 9910433243203321 005 20251102090541.0 010 $a9783839438343 010 $a3839438349 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(Perlego)1464234 035 $a(oapen)doab36365 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000210859 100 $a20251102d2017 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 $aUrban Studies 311 08$a9783837638349 311 08$a3837638340 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 517 2 $aMore, Actors and Networks in the Megacity$eA Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives 606 $aMaterialism 606 $aRealism 606 $aDocumentary 606 $aRepresentation 606 $aUrban Cities 606 $aGlobal South 606 $aBruno Latour 606 $aActor-Network Theory 606 $aANT 606 $aMegacity 606 $aDocumenting Strategy 606 $aNarrative 606 $aKnowledge Production 606 $aEpistemology 606 $aSociology 606 $aLiterature 606 $aCity 606 $aGeneral Literature Studies 606 $aUrban Studies 606 $aTheory of Literature 606 $aLiterary Studies 615 4$aMaterialism 615 4$aRealism 615 4$aDocumentary 615 4$aRepresentation 615 4$aUrban Cities 615 4$aGlobal South 615 4$aBruno Latour 615 4$aActor-Network Theory 615 4$aANT 615 4$aMegacity 615 4$aDocumenting Strategy 615 4$aNarrative 615 4$aKnowledge Production 615 4$aEpistemology 615 4$aSociology 615 4$aLiterature 615 4$aCity 615 4$aGeneral Literature Studies 615 4$aUrban Studies 615 4$aTheory of Literature 615 4$aLiterary Studies 676 $a810 686 $aHG 430$2rvk 700 $aMore$b Prachi$p

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