Waste Matters

Urban margins in contemporary literature

Sarah Harrison

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English

Routledge
16 August 2016

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Development studies; Urban communities; Waste management

Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities

How do those pushed to the margins survive in contemporary cities? What role do they play in today’s increasingly complex urban ecosystems? Faced with stark disparities in human and environmental wellbeing, what form might more equitable cities take?

Waste Matters argues that contemporary literature and film offer an insightful and timely response to these questions through their formal and thematic revaluation of urban waste. In their creation of a new urban imaginary which centres on discarded things, degraded places and devalued people, authors and artists such as Patrick Chamoiseau, Chris Abani, Dinaw Mengestu, Suketu Mehta and Vik Muniz suggest opportunities for an inclusive urban politics that demands systematic analysis. Waste Matters assesses the utopian promise and pragmatic limitations of their as yet under-examined work in light of today’s pressing urban challenges.

This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of English Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Urban Studies, Environmental Humanities and Film Studies.

By: Sarah Harrison
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781138187061
ISBN 10: 1138187062
Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities
Pages: 140
Publication Date: 16 August 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sarah K. Harrison completed a PhD in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.