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Actors and Networks in the Megacity

A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives
DOI: 10.14361/9783839438343
  • More,  Prachi
    More, Prachi

Abstract

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.

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Frontmatter
Prachi More
Seiten: 1 - 4
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Table Of Contents
Prachi More
Seiten: 5 - 6
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List Of Illustrations
Prachi More
Seiten: 7 - 8
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Acknowledgement
Prachi More
Seiten: 9 - 10
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Introduction: Urban Narratives And Bruno Latour's Empiricism
Prachi More
Seiten: 11 - 20
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I. Contextualizing Contemporary Urban Narratives As Literary Documentary
Prachi More
Seiten: 21 - 36
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II. Bruno Latour's 'New Empiricism'
Prachi More
Seiten: 37 - 64
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III. The Poetics and Politics of Rambling in lain Sinclair's Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
Prachi More
Seiten: 65 - 112
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IV. Strategies, Spatial Trajectories And Scenography: Micro-Mapping The Megacity In Suketu Mehta's Maximum City
Prachi More
Seiten: 113 - 150
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V. Of Spirals And Capitals: Sam Miller's Delhi, Adventures In A Megacity
Prachi More
Seiten: 151 - 180
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Conclusion: Actor-Network Theory And Literary Criticism
Prachi More
Seiten: 181 - 198
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Works Cited
Prachi More
Seiten: 199 - 222
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978-3-8394-3834-3
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220
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LIT000000 SOC026030 LIT006000
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Verlag
transcript Verlag
Schlagworte
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,

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