Brooklyn Fictions: The Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age

by James Peacock

Book Overview

Vast and diverse, Brooklyn is often portrayed in literature as a place of traditional community values and face-to-face relations, distinct from anonymous, capital-driven Manhattan. Brooklyn Fictions discovers what such representations of the New York borough can teach us about diversity and the individual, the local and the global.

Combining analysis of popular texts such as Sister Souljah's The Coldest Winter Ever with more...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441132538
• ISBN13: 9781441132536
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"