Overview
- Discusses fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in relation of urban and suburban spaces
- Engages with debates about the evolution of cartography
- Considers literary, artistic, and architectural works in postwar America
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces explores phenomena of urban mapping in the discourses and strategies of a variety of postwar artists and practitioners of space: Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Vito Acconci, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Rebecca Solnit, Matthew Buckingham, contemporary Situationist projects. The distinctive approach of the book highlights the interplay between texts and site-oriented practices, which have often been treated separately in critical discussions. Monica Manolescu considers spatial investigations that engage with the historical and social conditions of the urban environment and reflect on its mediated nature. Cartographic procedures that involve walking and surveying are interpreted as unsettling and subversive possibilities of representing and navigating the postwar American city. The book posits mapping as a critical nexus that opens up new ways of studying some of the most important postwar artistic engagements with New York and other American cities.
Reviews
“Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities offers an original focus on intermediality, elucidating the way that language and text remain in play – become indispensible components in fact – in avant-garde representations of the city. Manolescu effectively shows how the work of the artists she identifies cannot be adequately understood without grappling with their tropes of metaphor and linguistic indeterminacy, textual fragmentation and semiotic slippage. Overall, this is an enlightening, original and erudite book that represents a significant and welcome contribution to spatial literary studies.” (Will Norman, author of Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile and Culture in Midcentury America (2016))
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Monica Manolescu is Associate Professor of English at the University of Strasbourg, France. She has published a study of Vladimir Nabokov’s geographies and co-authored a companion to Lolita. She has also written articles on 20th-century and contemporary American literature and art.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities
Book Subtitle: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces
Authors: Monica Manolescu
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98663-0
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 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98662-3Published: 12 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07517-0Published: 26 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98663-0Published: 03 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 254
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Urban History