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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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Urban Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (222 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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