Actors and Networks in the Megacity
A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives
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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Table Of Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
List Of Illustrations
Seiten 7 - 8 -
Acknowledgement
Seiten 9 - 10 -
Introduction: Urban Narratives And Bruno Latour's Empiricism
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I. Contextualizing Contemporary Urban Narratives As Literary Documentary
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II. Bruno Latour's 'New Empiricism'
Seiten 37 - 64 -
III. The Poetics and Politics of Rambling in lain Sinclair's Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
Seiten 65 - 112 -
IV. Strategies, Spatial Trajectories And Scenography: Micro-Mapping The Megacity In Suketu Mehta's Maximum City
Seiten 113 - 150 -
V. Of Spirals And Capitals: Sam Miller's Delhi, Adventures In A Megacity
Seiten 151 - 180 -
Conclusion: Actor-Network Theory And Literary Criticism
Seiten 181 - 198 -
Works Cited
Seiten 199 - 222
19 October 2017, 220 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3834-9
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