Expanding Suburbia

Reviewing Suburban Narratives

210 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein
• ISBN: 9781571817907
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2001
• Größe: 222 x 145 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Roger Webster