2: Articulating Urban Space: Spatial Politics and Difference

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1: Imagining National Space: Symbolic Landscapes and National Canons 11
6. 2: Articulating Urban Space: Spatial Politics and Difference 49
7. 3: “The Inadequacy of Symbolic Surfaces”: Urban Space, Art, and Corporeality in Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved 73
8. 4: Rewriting the Melting Pot: Paule Marshall’s Brownstone City in The Fisher King 123
9. 5: Specular Images: Sub/Urban Spaces and “Echoes of Art” in Carol Shields’s Unless 169
10. 6: “The End of Traceable Beginnings”: Poetics of Urban Longing and Belonging in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For 215
11. 7: Synthesis 264
12. Bibliography 279
13. Index 307