Resistance and the city : negotiating urban identities: race, class, and gender /

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Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Ehland, Christoph (Editor), Fischer, Pascal (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
Series:Spatial practices ; 28.
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Table of Contents:
  • General introduction / Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer
  • Introduction: negotiating urban space / Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer
  • Part 1. Race and ethnicity
  • Black citizens - British Sspaces : Sstruggles in the 1970s and 1980s and cinematic representations / Ingrid von Rosenberg
  • Resisting topographies: mmigration, space and the city in contemporary British film / Ralf Schneider
  • Heterotopias as spaces of resistance in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981) / Katrin Roder
  • Changing uses of the city in contemporary Black British novels / Merle Tonnies and Anna Lienen
  • Part 2. Social Class
  • "Poor is cool": the working-classes as myth in Pulp's "Common People" / Christoph Singer
  • Chavs: the clash of social classes in urban Britain / Frank Erik Pointner
  • The other Dublin: homelessness, abject comedy and challenges to the urban order in Lenny Abrahamson's Adam & Paul (2004) / Mark Schmitt 8
  • In the ghetto: inequality, riots and resistance in London-based science fiction of the twenty-first century / Barbara Korte
  • Part 3. Gender and Sexuality
  • 'Lost to the streets': violence, space and gender in urban crime fiction / Gill Plain
  • The urban residential balcony as interstitial site / Sabine H. Smith
  • Muslims against gays? Faith, sexuality, resistance and London's East End / Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz
  • Scenic subversions: on Bruce LaBruce's re-queering of That Cold Day in the Park / Ger Zielinski.