Overview
- Appeals to an interdisciplinary range of areas including urban studies, cultural geography, and utopian studies
- Examines individual and collective perspectives on gentrification, urban informality, and city planning
- Frames future debates by problematizing the relationship between imagined cities and their real-life counterparts
Part of the book series: Literary Urban Studies (LIURS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Possible Cities
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Possible Urban Lives
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About this book
This book demonstrates how city literature addresses questions of possibility. In city literature, ideas of possibility emerge primarily through two perspectives: texts may focus on what is possible for cities, and they may present the urban environment as a site of possibility for individuals or communities. The volume combines reflections on urban possibility from a range of geographical and cultural contexts—in addition to the English-speaking world, individual chapters analyse possible cities and possible urban lives in Turkey, Israel, Finland, Germany, Russia and Sweden. Moreover, by engaging with issues such as city planning, mass housing, gentrification, informal settlements and translocal identities, the book shows imaginative literature at work outlining what possibility means in cities.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Markku Salmela is University Lecturer in English Literature at Tampere University, Finland. He is the author of Paul Auster’s Spatial Imagination (2006) and the co-editor of several volumes, including Literature and the Peripheral City (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and Literary Second Cities (Palgrave Macmillan 2017). His current research explores mediations of the Arctic underground.
Lieven Ameel is University Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Tampere University, Finland. His books include Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) and The Narrative Turn in Urban Planning (2020) and the co-edited volumes Literature and the Peripheral City (Palgrave Macmillan 2015), Literary Second Cities (Palgrave Macmillan 2017) and The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History (2019).Jason Finch is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He is the author of Deep Locational Criticism (2016) and co-editor of six books. From 2019-22 he is PI for Finland in the project ‘Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities: Narrating, Experiencing, Contesting’ (PUTSPACE), funded by the European Research Council and national funding agencies via the HERA programme.
With Eric Prieto, Salmela, Ameel and Finch are co-editors of the Palgrave series Literary Urban Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Literatures of Urban Possibility
Editors: Markku Salmela, Lieven Ameel, Jason Finch
Series Title: Literary Urban Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70909-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70908-2Published: 22 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70911-2Published: 23 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70909-9Published: 21 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2523-7888
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7896
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 281
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory, Postcolonial/World Literature, Urban History, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)