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Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction
Domestic Spaces, Neighborhoods, and Global Real Estate
Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction
Domestic Spaces, Neighborhoods, and Global Real Estate
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Focusing on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by authors from the United States, Canada, India, the United Kingdom and Australia. Literary texts, so adept at revealing the experiences and emotions of individuals within communities, are also important vehicles for exploring the complex relationships between individuals and the wider social, economic and political forces that lead to urban transformations including gentrification. These complexities are best revealed, this book argues, by proceeding from a forensic examination of characters' domestic buildings and spaces.
Examining novels from a broad range of writers, including Zadie Smith, Jonathan Lethem, Aravind Adiga, Michael Chabon and Irvine Welsh, this book makes a powerful case for the importance of literature in helping to understand the lived experience of gentrification.
Table of Contents
Introduction: (Not) At Home: Geographies and Genres of the Gentrification Story
Chapter 1: The House as Character, the Character of the House
Chapter 2: The Frontier and the Picturesque
Chapter 3: House of Pain: Gentrification and Home Invasion
Chapter 4: Renovations: Psychological Gentrification
Chapter 5: Underworlds: Crime Stories and Gentrification
Chapter 6: Other Neighbourhoods, Other Worlds: Gentrification, Speculative Fictions and Apocalypse
Conclusion: Forms of Resistance
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Product details
| Published | 12 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 264 |
| ISBN | 9781350295971 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | New Horizons in Contemporary Writing |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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