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Irish Urban Fictions

Author : Maria Beville
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319983229
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Irish Urban Fictions written by Maria Beville and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first to examine how the city is written in modern Irish fiction. Focusing on the multi-faceted, layered, and ever-changing topography of the city in Irish writing, it brings together studies of Irish and Northern Irish fictions which contribute to a more complete picture of modern Irish literature and Irish urban cultural identities. It offers a critical introduction to the Irish city as it represented in fiction as a plural space to mirror the plurality of contemporary Irish identities north and south of the border. The chapters combine to provide a platform for new research in the field of Irish urban literary studies, including analyses of the fiction of authors including James Joyce, Roddy Doyle, Kate O’Brien, Hugo Hamilton, Kevin Barry, and Rosemary Jenkinson. An exciting and diverse range of fictions is introduced and examined with the aim of generating a cohesive perspective on Irish urban fictions and to stimulate further discussion in this emerging area.

Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined

Author :
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0740792148
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined written by and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creator of Urban Dictionary shares a compendium of the site’s funniest, weirdest, and truest entries. Since 1999, UrbanDictionary.com has become the undisputed authority on contemporary slang. The site’s creator, Aaron Peckham, invites its ever-expanding fanbase to submit new words and definitions. For Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined, Peckham has curated a choice selection of terms that will definitely earn you street cred, and help newbies avoid confusing shank with skank.

Urban Romance

Author : Nelson George
Publisher : Noble Press Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Romance written by Nelson George and published by Noble Press Incorporated. This book was released on 1993 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip music critic Dwayne Robinson has two main gigs: defending rap's rightful place in the music industry and scoring as many women as possible. But this smooth-talking b-boy has yet to try working love into his lingo--until "buppie" Danielle Embry slides into and rocks his world. A Connecticut suburbanite, Danielle is as far removed from Dwayne's Brooklyn ghetto upbringing as it gets. Yet despite this clash, these unlikely lovers are drawn together. While struggling to grind out a harmonious tune amid the grit and glamour of New York City, they soon find themselves confronted with issues that cut deeper than either of them bargained for. . . . "From the Paperback edition."

Urban Dictionary

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Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449409903
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Urban Dictionary written by and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the popular website UrbanDictionary.com, this new edition features the freshest definitions for the words that define our world.

Mo' Urban Dictionary

Author : Aaron Peckham
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0740788922
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Mo' Urban Dictionary written by Aaron Peckham and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have seen the future of slang dictionaries, and its name is urbandictionary.com." --Times (London) * Move over Merriam-Webster, Oxford, and American Heritage; your version of truthiness has hit the marble ceiling. Compiled from the wildly popular Web site urbandictionary.com, Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined includes more than 2,000 of the latest contemporary slang entries. * Since the site's founding in 1999, more than 2.5 million definitions have been submitted. Thousands of new words and definitions are added each day. * Each alphabetized entry includes a word, a definition, and a sample sentence. Applejacked: Having your Apple iPod stolen. "Dude, on the train last night I totally got Applejacked!" bacon bit: A rent-a-cop; not good/important enough to be referred to as a "pig" or "bacon." "I thought we'd be in trouble when the 5-0 started rollin' up, but then I realized it was just the bacon bits--mall security." cruiser spoon: To park two police cruisers with the drivers' sides adjacent so that the officers can converse through the open windows. "Better slow down, the po-po are cruiser spooning in the parking lot ahead."

Salman Rushdie's Cities

Author : Vassilena Parashkevova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441148647
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Salman Rushdie's Cities written by Vassilena Parashkevova and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing Salman Rushdie as a guide to a historicized contemporary, this study offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the plurality of cities along his transnational trajectory. It engages with the geographically identifiable Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad, London or New York; the phantasmal, politically coded, Jahilia or Mildendo, the inspirational yet flawed urban precedents of Fatehpur Sikri or Renaissance Florence and the ways these cities generate, interact with and transform each other. The book situates Rushdie's cities in relation to developments in Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad and London writing and focuses on novels which shuttle between cities. Parashkevova attends to cities' cultural and historical contexts, to many of Rushdie's numerous literary, cinematic and artistic influences and to diverse events, processes and paradigms - earthquakes, translations, seductions - that politically re-position cities and citizens on the contemporary urban map.

Urban Fiction

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781531154714
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book Urban Fiction written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Uncontained

Author : Elizabeth A. Wheeler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813529738
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Uncontained written by Elizabeth A. Wheeler and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the post-war era, American urban fiction was dominated by the imagery of containment. This book offers a critique of this familiar story, evident in the noir narratives of James M. Cain and in work by Ellison, Roth, Salinger, Percy, Capote and others.

Postcolonial African Cities

Author : Fassil Demissie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317991389
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial African Cities written by Fassil Demissie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present. The essays explore the cultural role of colonial architecture and urbanism in the production of meanings: in the inscription of power and discipline, as well as in the dynamic construction of identities. It is in these new dense urban spaces, with all their contradictions, that urban Africans are reworking their local identities, building families, and creating autonomous communities – made fragile by neo-liberal states in a globalizing world. The book offers a range of scholarly interpretations of the new forms of urbanity. It engages with issues, themes and topics including colonial legacies, postcolonial intersections, cosmopolitan spaces, urban reconfigurations, and migration which are at the heart of the continuing debate about the trajectory of contemporary African cities. The collection discusses contemporary African cities as diverse as Dar Es Salaam, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Kinshasa – offering new insights into the current state of postcolonial African cities. This was previously published as a special issue of African Identities.

Street Lit

Author : Keenan Norris
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810892634
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Street Lit written by Keenan Norris and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last few decades, the genre of urban fiction—or street lit—has become increasingly popular as more novels secure a place on bestseller lists that were once the domain of mainstream authors. In the 1970s, pioneers such as Donald Goines, Iceberg Slim, and Claude Brown paved the way for today’s street fiction novelists, poets, and short story writers, including Sister Souljah, Kenji Jasper, and Colson Whitehead. In Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape, Keenan Norris has assembled a varied collection of articles, essays, interviews, and poems that capture the spirit of urban fiction and nonfiction produced from the 1950s through the present day. Providing both critical analyses and personal insights, these works explore the street lit phenomenon to help readers understand how and why this once underground genre has become such a vital force in contemporary literature. Interviews with literary icons David Bradley, Gerald Early, and Lynel Gardner are balanced with critical discussions of works by Goines, Jasper, Whitehead, and others. With an introduction by Norris that explores the roots of street lit, this collection defines the genre for today’s readers and provides valuable insights into a cultural force that is fast becoming as important to the American literary scene as hip-hop is to music. Featuring a foreword by bestselling novelist Omar Tyree (Flyy Girl) and comprised of works by scholars, established authors, and new voices, Street Lit will inspire any reader who wants to understand the significance of this sometimes controversial but unquestionably popular art form.

Theater of a City

Author : Jean E. Howard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812202309
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Theater of a City written by Jean E. Howard and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the commercial stage depended on the unprecedented demographic growth and commercial vibrancy of London to fuel its own development, Jean E. Howard posits a particular synergy between the early modern stage and the city in which it flourished. In London comedy, place functions as the material arena in which social relations are regulated, urban problems negotiated, and city space rendered socially intelligible. Rather than simply describing London, the stage participated in interpreting it and giving it social meaning. Each chapter of this book focuses on a particular place within the city—the Royal Exchange, the Counters, London's whorehouses, and its academies of manners—and examines the theater's role in creating distinctive narratives about each. In these stories, specific locations are transformed into venues defined by particular kinds of interactions, whether between citizen and alien, debtor and creditor, prostitute and client, or dancing master and country gentleman. Collectively, they suggest how city space could be used and by whom, and they make place the arena for addressing pressing urban problems: demographic change and the influx of foreigners and strangers into the city; new ways of making money and losing it; changing gender roles within the metropolis; and the rise of a distinctive "town culture" in the West End. Drawing on a wide range of familiar and little-studied plays from four decades of a defining era of theater history, Theater of a City shows how the stage imaginatively shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London.

Urban Fictions (January 13 to February 18, 1996).

Author : Presentation House Gallery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Urban Fictions (January 13 to February 18, 1996). written by Presentation House Gallery and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City

Author : Betsy Klimasmith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192661353
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City written by Betsy Klimasmith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City sheds new light on the literature of the early US by exploring how literature, theatre, architecture, and images worked together to allow readers to imagine themselves as urbanites even before cities developed. In the four decades following the Revolutionary War, the new nation was a loose network of nascent cities connected by print. Before a national culture could develop, local city cultures took shape; literary texts played key roles in helping new Americans become city people. Drawing on extensive archival research, Urban Rehearsals argues that literature, particularly novels and plays, allowed Bostonians to navigate the transition from colonial town to post-revolution city, enabled Philadelphians to grieve their experiences of the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic and rebuild in the epidemic's aftermath, and showed New Yorkers how the domestic practices that reinforced their urbanity could be opened to the broader public. Throughout, attention to underrepresented voices and texts calls attention to the possibilities for women, immigrants, and Black Americans in developing urban spaces, while showing how those possibilities would be foreclosed as the nation developed. Balancing attention to canonical texts of the early Republic, including The Power of Sympathy, Charlotte Temple, and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, with novels whose depiction of early cities deserves greater attention, such as Ormond, The Boarding-School, Monima, and Kelroy, this volume shows how US cities developed on the pages and stages of the early Republic, building urban imaginations that would construct the nation's early cities.

Urban Fictions

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Urban Fictions written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Fiction

Author : Gabe Bowens III
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9780595608768
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Urban Fiction written by Gabe Bowens III and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-02-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "JUST A WEEK AGO" Savon and Ra-Born are brothers intent on making it big. They choose the fast lane of the streets to reach their goal of being famous rappers. Living by the sword, they learn the hard way that it truly does have a double edge. "THE PAPER BOY" Ebon is a young partner in an architect firm, who is left restless by dreams of a beautiful woman. When his firm is bought out, he learns that the real jewel is not money, but the object of his dreams. "360" Coming of age is one thing, but what Omar has in mind is his next come up. Ultimately finding himself on a path of destruction, he looks within to find his answers. The fast paced full circle account in this collection that is gritty and thought provoking.

Bright White

Author : Jessica Germaine Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985594510
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book Bright White written by Jessica Germaine Smith and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keisha Black tells her side of the story

"Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination

Author : Benjamin Linder
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031130480
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book "Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination written by Benjamin Linder and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1972, Italo Calvino published Invisible Cities, a literary book that masterfully combines philosophy and poetry, rigid structure and free play, theoretical insight and glittering prose. The text is an extended meditation on urban life, and it continues to resonate not only among literary scholars, but among social scientists, architects, and urban planners as well. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Invisible Cities, this collection of essays serves as both an appreciation and a critical engagement. Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume grapples with the theoretical, pedagogical, and political legacies of Calvino’s work. Each chapter approaches Invisible Cities not only as a novel but as a work of evocative ethnography, place-writing, and urban theory. Fifty years on, what can Calvino’s dreamlike text offer to scholars and practitioners interested in actually existing urban life?