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Reviewing Suburban Narratives
Edited by Roger Webster
| 208 pages, bibliog., index ISBN 978-1-57181-791-4 Pb $25.00/£17.00 Published ( 2001) ISBN 978-1-57181-790-7 Hb $69.95/£47.00 Published ( 2001) Buy now and get 15% off listed price |
During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars as well as practitioners by whom it is seen as an increasingly significant and complex area of modern life. The essays in this volume consider a range of representations of suburban life from the late nineteenth century to the present day, including fiction, film, and popular music, drawn from America and Australia as well as Britain. They explore and challenge traditional views of suburbia so that, rather than a location of conformity and stereotypicality, it can be viewed as a site of social conflict, division, and ambiguity as well as a source of significant creativity across a range of cultural texts. The volume takes a thematic approach, considering the rise of suburbia, imagined and real suburbias, alternative suburbias: all of the essays have a strong historical dimension and the overall approach is characterized by interdisciplinarity.
Roger Webster is Professor of Literary Studies and Director of the School of Media, Critical & Creative Arts, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool.
Series: Volume 6, Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections