Actors and Networks in the Megacity : A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives / Prachi More
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....
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1\u More, Prachi aut Actors and Networks in the Megacity A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives Prachi More 1st ed. Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2017 1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Urban Studies This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy In English. funded by Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2019: Backlist Collection Open access Unrestricted online access star 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 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. 1\u Prachi More (PhD) taught at the English Studies Department at the University of Tubingen, Germany. Her research interests include New Materialisms, Smart Cities and Weird Fiction. 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; 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. 3-8376-3834-0 Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2019: Backlist Collection funder. fnd http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd |
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