TY - BOOK AU - More,Prachi TI - Actors and Networks in the Megacity: A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives T2 - Urban Studies SN - 9783839438343 AV - PR149.C53 M67 2017eb U1 - 810 PY - 2017///] CY - Bielefeld : PB - transcript-Verlag, KW - Cities and towns in literature KW - Empiricism in literature KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Social structure in literature KW - ANT KW - Actor-Network Theory KW - Bruno Latour KW - City KW - Documentary KW - Documenting Strategy KW - Epistemology KW - General Literature Studies KW - Global South KW - Knowledge Production KW - Literary Studies KW - Literature KW - Megacity KW - Narrative KW - Realism KW - Representation KW - Sociology KW - Theory of Literature KW - Urban Cities KW - Urban Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Table Of Contents --; List Of Illustrations --; Acknowledgement --; Introduction: Urban Narratives And Bruno Latour's Empiricism --; I. Contextualizing Contemporary Urban Narratives As Literary Documentary --; II. Bruno Latour's 'New Empiricism' --; III. The Poetics and Politics of Rambling in lain Sinclair's Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire --; IV. Strategies, Spatial Trajectories And Scenography: Micro-Mapping The Megacity In Suketu Mehta's Maximum City --; V. Of Spirals And Capitals: Sam Miller's Delhi, Adventures In A Megacity --; Conclusion: Actor-Network Theory And Literary Criticism --; Works Cited; Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839438343 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9783839438343.jpg ER -