Literary Second Cities
This book brings together geographers and literary scholars in a series of engagements near the boundaries of their disciplines. In urban studies, disproportionate attention has been given to a small set of privileged ‘first’ cities. This volume problemat
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Literary Second Cities “Urban literary studies has understandably focused attention on certain major, global cities—London, Paris, New York, Tokyo—haut lieux that dominate the spatial imagination. But what of the second cities, smaller, less revered, but perhaps more representative of urban life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? The essays in Literary Second Cities address this blind spot by analysing the distinctive space and character of these ‘secondary’ places. This is a vital and necessary collection.” —Robert T. Tally Jr., Professor in the Department of English, Texas State University, USA “This volume will appeal to those with an interest in writing on city spaces that are off the beaten paths of world literature. Through its focus on ‘secondariness’ it highlights the importance of social and cultural phenomena that tend to emerge outside of and in tension with centres of power, phenomena that demonstrate the ongoing need for the kinds of representational reconfigurations and interpretive insights that give literary discourse its special power over the real.” —Eric Prieto, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Jason Finch · Lieven Ameel Markku Salmela Editors
Literary Second Cities
Editors Jason Finch Åbo Akademi University Turku, Finland Markku Salmela University of Tampere Tampere, Finland
Lieven Ameel Helsinki University University of Tampere Tampere, Finland
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