Geographies of Memory and Postwar Urban Regeneration in British Literature

Geographies of Memory and Postwar Urban Regeneration in British Literature
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9781527584549
ISBN-13 : 1527584542
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Download or read book Geographies of Memory and Postwar Urban Regeneration in British Literature written by Alina Cojocaru and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new approach to the literary representations of London by means of correlating geocriticism, spatial literary studies and memory studies in order to investigate the interplay between reality and fiction in mapping the urban imaginary. It conducts an analysis of depictions of London in British literature published between 1975 and 2005, exploring the literary representations of the real urban restructurings prompted by the rebuilding projects in war and poverty-stricken districts of London, the remapping of the metropolis by immigrants, gentrification and the displacement of communities, as well as the urban dissolution caused by terrorism. The selected works of fiction written by Peter Ackroyd, Penelope Lively, Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, J.G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock, Doris Lessing and Ian McEwan provide a record of the city in times of de/reconstruction, emphasizing the structure of London as a palimpsest, which becomes a central image. The book contributes to the development of the subject field by introducing a number of original concepts which connect geocriticism and memory studies.


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