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A ‘Bottom-Up’ Approach to Transcultural Identities: Petra and Women Detectives in Italian TV Crime Drama
In her The TV Crime Drama, Turnbull (The TV Crime Drama. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014) argues that “the portrayal of women in the...
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Flow or Friction? Ecological Transnationalism in Japanese TV Anime
This chapter explores how transnational storytelling might nourish a global ecological imagination. The chapter discusses Japanese TV anime in...
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Carlos Fuentes and Mexico City
Carlos Fuentes represented and recreated Mexico City throughout his literary works. In early novels, unequal social order is maintained despite the...
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New York City: Harboring World Cultures and Commerce
New York City’s diverse, resilient people and its commercial prowess focus this chapter. Explorers describe early contact: food and furs offered as...
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Adolescence and the City: Urban Spaces on the Move
The second chapter of analysis is devoted to novels that feature a large city as the central plot location and establish characters who move through...
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Time in the Translocal City
Translocal novels—novels that are set in two or more distant places, which are layered or blended—are more often than not urban texts, since the city...
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Writing the Present to Commemorate: Personal Narratives of the Arab Revolution in Ahdaf Soueif’s Memoirs of a City Transformed and Hisham Matar’s The Return
This chapter highlights the complex relationship between narrative and temporality while exploring the narrative configuration of the Arab revolution...
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Carlos Fuentes and Mexico City
Carlos Fuentes represented and recreated Mexico City throughout his literary works. In early novels, unequal social order is maintained despite the...
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On the Inter-Evidence Again: The Jade Ring Unearthed from the Tombs of the Han Dynasty in Chaohu City and the Bear Totem of the Chu People
This chapter, based on the previous chapter, summarizes the interaction between the various evidences of the quadruple-evidence method, especially...
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Shadow Economies: The Financial Crisis and European TV Crime Series
This chapter examines the ways that European television crime series have reacted to and reflected upon the financial crisis of 2008 and its...
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Narrative Glocality and the Cosmoflâneur in Ian McEwan’s Saturday
This chapter focuses on one of the earlier cosmopolitan novels of the twenty-first century, Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005), and aims to show the...
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Visual Citation in Intermedial Relations
In “La seconde main ou le travail de la citation” (1979, 2016), Antoine Compagnon examines in depth the phenomenon of verbal citations and offers a...
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‘Totaled City’: The Postdigital Poetics of Ben Lerner’s 10:04
The chapter argues that Ben Lerner’s 10:04 is a response to the new ontological condition of metamodernism. Not only is 10:04 deliberately playful in...
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B5 Black and White: Race, Football and Music in the Midlands, UK, Late 1970s
In recent years, several monographs, documentaries and biographies have emerged that engage with race, music and social upheaval in the Midlands of...
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The Holy Hole in Chinese Patriarchal Culture: Going Pop and South
From the perspective of Chinese diaspora, this chapter lays bare the Chinese Patriarch’s Big Lie of the feminine void of holy hole to bear—to hold...
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Televisual Subjectivities: Mediatic Ultraviolence and Disappearing Bodies in “Ruido gris” [“Gray Noise”] and Punto cero [Point Zero] by Pepe Rojo
Examining two key narratives by Pepe Rojo, “Ruido gris” (1996) and Punto cero (2000), these works present a fantastic televisuality—as opposed to...