Collection(s) : Lettres & langues
Paru le 21/08/2008 | Broché 250 pages
Public motivé
(Re-)Mapping London
The aim of this collection is to explore representations of London in contemporary literature from two main perspectives : the city as observed by British-born Londoners and the new multicultural London. The British capital is sometimes presented as a labyrinthine, hostile and even occult city which is now no longer the centre of the Empire and is a place of chaos, decay, disorder, corruption and alienation. But it can also be considered in a creative and dynamic perspective as the source of endless imagination and regeneration, as the place for growth and change, for new beginnings and possibilities. This volume examines fresh ways of re-mapping the metropolis and redefining its contours in novels from the 1960's to the present, with special focus on Graham Swift, Salman Rushdie, lan McEwan, Zadie Smith, Peter Ackroyd, Will Self, Caryl Phillips, Dons Lessing, Jenny Diski, Tibor Fischer and Monica Ali.
Vanessa Guignery is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary English Literature at the University of La Sorbonne in Paris. She is the author of several books and essays on the work of Julian Barnes, including The Fiction of Julian Bornes (Macmillan, 2006), and Conversations with Julian Bornes (Mississippi Press, 2009), co-edited with Ryan Roberts. She has published articles on Arundhati Roy, Jeanette Winterson, Alain de Botton, David Lodge, Jonathan Coe, and Michèle Roberts, as well as a monograph on B.S. Johnson (Presses Universitaires de la Sorbonne, 2009). She has co-edited with François Gallix collections of essays on crime fiction, travel writing, literary prizes and on the work of Graham Greene.
