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Pooch, Melanie U.,

DiverCity - Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon : Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles in a Globalizing Age / Melanie U. Pooch. - Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2016] ©2016 - 1 online resource - Lettre .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Globalization and Its Effects -- 3. Global Cities as Cultural Nodal Points -- 4. Cultural Diversity in a Globalizing Age -- 5. The Poetics of diverCity -- 6. Dionne Brand's Toronto, What We All Long For -- 7. Chang-rae Lee's New York, Native Speaker -- 8. Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, Tropic of Orange -- 9. Conclusion -- Works Cited

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Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (»DiverCity«). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, »What We All Long For« (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, »Native Speaker« (1995), and Karen Tei Yamashita's 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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license:


In English.

ISBN: 9783839435410

Standard No.: 10.14361/9783839435410 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American literature--History and criticism.
Globalization--Social aspects.
Poetics--History.
British Studies.
City.
Culture.
Global City.
Globalization.
Literary Studies.
Literature.
Los Angeles.
New York.
Toronto.
Urban Studies.
Stadt
Globalisierung
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

LC Class. No.: PS121 / .P59 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9