Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction: Urban Narratives And Bruno Latour's Empiricism -- I. Contextualizing Contemporary Urban Narratives As Literary Documentary -- II. Bruno Latour's 'New Empiricism' -- III. The Poetics and Politics of Rambling in lain Sinclair's Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire -- IV. Strategies, Spatial Trajectories And Scenography: Micro-Mapping The Megacity In Suketu Mehta's Maximum City -- V. Of Spirals And Capitals: Sam Miller's Delhi, Adventures In A Megacity -- Conclusion: Actor-Network Theory And Literary Criticism -- Works Cited
Summary
This study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 21st century. We encounter well-known psycho-geographers such as Iain Sinclair and Sam Miller, and renowned a
Analysis
ANT
Actor-Network Theory
Bruno Latour
City
Documentary
Documenting Strategy
Epistemology
General Literature Studies
Global South
Knowledge Production
Literary Studies
Literature
Megacity
Narrative
Realism
Representation
Sociology
Theory of Literature
Urban Cities
Urban Studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Notes
In English
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