1st Edition
Reflecting on the City Through Literature Urban Spaces, Differences and Embodiments
1. Introduction: Reflections of the city, reflections on the city
2. Spatialities, differences and practices: "The Balloon" and City of Glass
3. Beyond the Negative: Non-location and The Crying of Lot 49
4. Bodies in Urban Space: Cosmopolis
5. Conclusion: Narrativity and the City
Works cited
Biography
Daan Wesselman is a lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. As a researcher affiliated with the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, his focus is on finding common ground between the humanities and urban studies. He writes about concepts such as heterotopia, nonplace, and the posthuman as a means of understanding postindustrial urban redevelopment and the material-discursive interfaces between the body, the city, and everyday life. He has recently co-edited the volume Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century (2020), and his work appears in Space and Culture and several edited books.
