New Suburban Stories [Paperback]

Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia,New Suburban Storiesbrings 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.

Martin Dinesis Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University, UK. He is the author ofGay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture(2009).

Timotheus Vermeulenis Assistant Professor in Cultural Theory and Director of the Centre for New Aesthetics at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Introduction: New
Suburban Stories, Martin Dines and Timotheus Vermeulen \ Part I: Delineating
the Margins \ 1. Mapping the Suburbs: Cartographic Representation
of Villa Celina, Buenos Aires, 1955-2011, Adriana Massidda \ 2. From Riots to Designer Shoes: Tout ce qui
brille/All that Glitters (2010) and Changing Representations of the Banlieue in French Cinema, Carrie Tarr \ 3. Entering
No-Go Areas: Suburbs in Contemporary German Literature, Caroline Merkel \ 4. J.G.
Ballard: The 'Seer of Shepperton' as the Seer of Suburbia, Jarrad Keyes \ Part II: The Past in its Place \ 5. The Shifting
Ground of Commemoration in an Australian Suburb, Hannah Lewi and Caroline
Jordan \ 6.The Future and Come and Gone: Managing Change in the Aging
Suburbs, Alan Mace \ 7. Where the Heart
Is: Cinema and Civic Life in Singapore, Gaik
Khoo \ Part
III: Aesthetics of Affect \ 8.'The Shhh of Sprays On All the Little Lawns': Imagining
the Post-War American Suburbs, Joanna Gill \ 9. 'Nothing Seemed Familiar, Yet Everything
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