European Urban Fictions in China. by Dieter Hassenpflug

“…The offered goods match the Chinese customers’ desire : Cities comprised of closed neighborhoods with commercialized, open urban stage settings consisting of scanned or imitated European architectural backdrops. Why these urban fictions ? Because the symbolism of the exotic is considered as a social distinction gain by the members of the new middle and luxury classes ― in an environment in which branding has become the normal way of life since long.…”
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Researching the city and walking with street dwellers: Recreating urban encounters past and present by Isabel Carrera Suárez, Simone Lazaroo

Subjects: “…urban fiction…”
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Trasgressive, ribelli e perdute: frammenti di periferie reali e immaginarie nella narrativa urbana turco-tedesca contemporanea by Sara Giovansana

“…This paper focuses on the representation of German urban peripheries in Turkish-German contemporary urban fiction. Through the analysis and comparison of two novels written by contemporary German novelists with Turkish origins – Der die Träume hört (2019) by Selim Özdogan and Hawaii (2020) by Cihan Acar – this contribution is aimed at investigating how the Turkish-German community deals with life in real and fictional German urban margins as spaces where new forms of citizenship and ways of urban living take shape and how the geographical-literary depictions of this urban peripheral framework are related to issues such as feelings of loss, exclusion, abandonment, desire to escape, personal redemption and racial hatred.…”
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‘A Whole Other World than What I Live in’: Reading Chester Himes, on Campus and at the County Jail by Ed Wiltse

“…This essay first briefly examines African American novelist Chester Himes’ genre-defying position as prison writer turned detective writer, whose influence is clear not only in the usual suspects such as Walter Mosley but also in the Blaxploitation films of the early 1970s, and in the urban fiction tradition from Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim on down through today’s Triple Crown books and others. …”
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Ficções urbanas: estratégias para a ocupação das cidades by Andréa Tavares

“…Fantastic creatures and a typography that is hard to read defy not only common sense, but also the laws. The text "Urban fiction" analyzes the differences between the strategies of graffiti and "pichação" in São Paulo. …”
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The Construction of Ethical Subject and Heterotopias in Paul Auster’s City of Glass by Hatice Bay

“…The initial stimulus for this article came from my observation of the widespread fixation on the crisis of the city in recent urban studies and urban fiction. It is a space that looms large and monstrous over the urban individual who is either relegated to the position of an observant walker or who assumes assimilation to the environment of image.1 Paul Auster’s City of Glass allows me to take issue with the common discourse on cities as homogenized, sinister and culturally uniform spaces and the subjects as victimized and passivized entities.2 In fact, Auster’s urban space deals with a wider range of issues beyond those of contemporary urban crisis. …”
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武汉城市书写与底层女性 ： 以方方与池莉小说为例 = Rewriting Wuhan city and its underclass women by 罗爽 Luo, Shuang

“…The rise of Chinese contemporary urban fiction firstly occurred in the 1930s and followed by another outburst in the 1990s. …”
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Geocriticism and the exploration of Mexico City-Tenochtitlán in Carlos Fuentes’ Where the Air is Clear by Pasuree Luesakul

“…Where the Air is Clear, or La región más transparente (1958) in its original version, is an urban fiction of Mexico City structured from a postcolonial perspective by Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin American Boom authors. …”
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Urban Malaise: Women and the Discourse of Desire in Pan Xiangli’s Shanghai by Giulia Rampolla

“…Pan Xiangli’s works are examined in the context of 21st century Chinese literature written by women and new urban fiction.…”
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FCJ-120 Other Ways Of Knowing: Embodied Investigations of the Unstable, Slippery and Incomplete by Petra Gemeinboeck, Rob Saunders

“…Impossible Geographies 02: Urban Fiction, a locative media work and installation, uses mobile phones as 'lenses' through which to look at the city in ways that afford a reading outside of known and fixed relations (Haraway, 1991; Rogoff, 2000). …”
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Examining the representation of landscape and its emotional value in German-Swiss fiction between 1840 and 1940 by Giulia Grisot, Berenike Herrmann

“…In an exploratory analysis, we offer here a first-time data-driven perspective on rural and urban fictional space, incorporating the dimension of affective encoding of space systematically.…”
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Europäische Stadtfiktionen in China. by Dieter Hassenpflug

“…The offered goods match the Chinese customers’ desire: Cities comprised of closed neighborhoods with commercialized, open urban stage settings consisting of scanned or imitated European architectural backdrops. Why these urban fictions? Because the symbolism of the exotic is considered as a social distinction gain by the members of the new middle and luxury classes – in an environment in which branding has become the normal way of life since long.…”
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