New Suburban Stories

by Martin Dines (Editor), TimotheusVermeulen (Editor)

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Paperback
2015
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Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, New Suburban Stories brings together new research from leading international scholars to examine cultural representations of the suburbs, home to a rapidly increasing proportion of the world's population. Focussing in particular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to suburbia, the book considers how suburban communities have taken control of their own representation to tell their own stories in contemporary novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media and public art.

Synopsis

Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, New Suburban Stories brings together new research from leading international scholars to examine cultural representations of the suburbs, home to a rapidly increasing proportion of the world's population. Focussing in particular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to suburbia, the book considers how suburban communities have taken control of their own representation to tell their own stories in contemporary novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media and public art.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 12 Mar 2015
ISBN 10: 1474228372
ISBN 13: 9781474228374
Book Overview: An international team of scholars explore representations of the suburbs in contemporary literature, film and culture.

Author Bio

Martin Dines is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University, UK. He is the author of Gay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture (2009). Timotheus Vermeulen is Assistant Professor in Cultural Theory and Director of the Centre for New Aesthetics at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.