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Fictional Strategies and Visual Discourses in 1990s New York City. Edited by Günter H. Lenz, Dorothea Löbbermann and Karl-Heinz Magister.

This volume explores modes of urban representations that focus on the visual and on movement, both in the media of literature and film, as well as in discourses of migration, tourism and social movements. The collection of 13 essays thus addresses the visual both in its materiality, as in architecture, art, film, photography, and in the imagination, as in literature and writing in general. Urban spaces are conceptualized as potential contact zones for different ethnic and social groups which, increasingly, are not necessarily characterized by a territory of their own, but are often translocal, discontinuous, displaced, and displacing. The essays investigate the tensions between various kinds of hybrid texts about New York City whose simultaneity is an articulation of the 'creative energy' of city life. They are a contribution to the analysis of the cultural work of contemporary urban fiction, film, and other urban discourses. - Contents: In the Shadow of 9/11: Peter Brooker: Terrorism and Counternarratives. Don DeLillo and the New York Urban Imaginary. - Kristiaan Versluys: Frédéric Beigbeder's "Windows on the World" or 9/11 as the End of Irony. -- Embattled Urban Spatialities and Moving Images: Steven Jacobs: Between Main and Mean Streets. Martin Scorcese's Fragmented New York. - Kim Förster: ABC No Rio's Oppositional Spatiality and Iconography. A Study of the Politics of Space, Community, and Art. - Dorothea Löbbermann: The Homeless Body and New York City. Spectacle, Representation, Embodiment. - Camille Fojas: Boxing in Brooklyn. Gender, Race, and the City in "Girlfight". -- The Transnational Imaginary and Cinematic Perspectives in Film and Fiction: Holger Henke: "Brooklyn Babylon". The Reproduction and Consumption of Cosmological and Epistemological Space in New York City. - Karl-Heinz Magister: Trans-Caribbean CinematoGraphic Narratives in Jamaican Urban Diasporas. - Sladja Blazan: Performing Ethnic Heroes in New York Novels of the 1990s. -- New EthniCities and In/Visible Cities: Günter H. Lenz: New EthniCities. Recodifying Urban Spaces and Intercultural Translation in New York Fictions of the 1990s. - Antje Dallmann: »Where ... exactly am I?« The Coded City in Bret Easton Ellis' "Glamorama". - Jeroen Lievens: Brimming Bodies, Brittle Borders. Spatial, Visual and Sexual Dislocations in Lynne Tillman's "No Lease on Life". -- Showcase New York, New Trajectories: Bart Eeckhout: The Point of Getting Lost. Critical Reflections on a Soundwalk(TM) through Times Square. - 360 Seiten mit 9 Abb., gebunden (American Studies - A Monograph Series; Vol. 129/Universitätsverlag Winter 2006) leichte Lagerspuren