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Actors and Networks in the Megacity : A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives / Prachi More



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Autore: More Prachi Visualizza persona
Titolo: Actors and Networks in the Megacity : A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives / Prachi More Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2017
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 810
Soggetto topico: Materialism; 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
Soggetto non controllato: ANT
Actor-Network Theory
Bruno Latour
City
Documentary
Documenting Strategy
Epistemology
General Literature Studies
Global South
Knowledge Production
Literary Studies
Literature
Megacity
Narrative
Realism
Representation
Sociology
Theory of Literature
Urban Cities
Urban Studies
Classificazione: HG 430
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter 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
Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Actors and Networks in the Megacity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-8394-3834-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910433243203321
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Serie: Urban Studies