Sökning: "Urban Novels"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden Urban Novels.
1. Espace urbain et écriture des carrefours : Une étude de Chronique des sept misères, Solibo Magnifique et Texaco de Patrick Chamoiseau
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the role of urban space in Patrick Chamoiseau's first three novels. Observing that the colonial city is often stigmatized in French Caribbean literature and that Chamoiseau's style changes as his following novels are set elsewhere, the study has as its goal an assessment of the ways in which urban space determines his writing. LÄS MER
2. Modernitet och intermedialitet i Erik Asklunds tidiga romankonst
Sammanfattning : Modernitet och intermedialitet is the first major study of the Swedish modernist writer Erik Asklund (1908-1980) and his works. The thesis consists of an introductory chapter and three close readings of Asklund’s early novels Kvinnan är stor (The Woman is Great, 1931), Lilla land (A Small Country, 1933), and Fanfar med fem trumpeter (A Fanfare with Five Trumpets, 1934). LÄS MER
3. La letteratura postcoloniale italiana per l’infanzia (2010-2021) : Lingua, spazio, colore
Sammanfattning : Although Italian postcolonial literature, defined as literature written by migrants and second-generation migrants in Italian, has been studied broadly at least since the 2000s, Italian postcolonial literature for children has almost completely been ignored. The only monograph that has dealt with this corpus is the groundbreaking E noi? Il “posto” degli scrittori migranti nella narrativa per ragazzi by Lorenzo Luatti published in 2010. LÄS MER
4. "I am walking in my city" : The Production of Locality in Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege, Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay, and Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song
Sammanfattning : At the center of this study are three Indian novels with an urban setting and dealing with political and social issues of the 1990s: Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege (2003), Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay (1997) and Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song (1998). The Delhi of In Times of Siege is portrayed as a city infused with power but haunted by a troubled past that is brought to the present by a dissenting professor of history. LÄS MER
5. Gentrifiktionen : Zur literarischen Verarbeitung der Gentrifizierung in deutschsprachigen Berlin-Romanen nach 2000
Sammanfattning : Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, gentrification has restructured the urban fabric of the German capital profoundly. Although gentrification is one of the most widespread and controversial urban processes in many parts of the world today, literary discourses on gentrification remain under-studied. LÄS MER
