Entrée principale:

Watson, Jini Kim.

Titre et auteur:

The new Asian city : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form / Jini Kim Watson.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Description:

xi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.
Introduction : the production of space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei -- pt. 1. Colonial cities. Imagining the colonial city ; Orphans of Asia : modernity and colonial literature ; Export production and the blank slate -- pt. 2. Postwar urbanism. Narratives of human growth versus urban renewal ; The disappearing woman, interiority, and private space ; Transition. Roads, railways, and bridges : arteries of the nation -- pt. 3. Industrializing landscapes. The way ahead : the politics and poetics of Singapore's developmental landscape ; Mobility and migration in Taiwanese new cinema ; The redemptive realism of Korean Minjung literature -- Conclusion. Too late, too soon : globalization and new Asian cities.

Résumé:

"The New Asian City provides an innovative approach to how we might better understand the gleaming metropolises of the Pacific Rim. In doing so, it demonstrates how reading cultural production in conjunction with built environments can enrich our knowledge of the lived consequences of rapid economic and urban development." From Amazon.

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Table of contents

ISBN:

9780816675722 (alk. paper)
0816675724 (alk. paper)
9780816675739 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0816675732 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

East Asian fiction History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.
Urbanization in literature.
Space in literature.
Urbanization East Asia History.
Cities and towns East Asia Growth History.
Urbanisation dans la littérature.
Espace dans la littérature.
Cities and towns Growth.
East Asian fiction.
Urbanization.
Film
Literatur
Städtebau
Stadt (Motiv)
East Asia.
Ostasien

Classification/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 276263
Cote: BIB 210817
Statut: Disponible