{"product_id":"urban-undergrounds-contemporary-literary-and-cultural-perspectives-paperback-1","title":"Urban Undergrounds: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Perspectives - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatricia García\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDavid Pike\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResearch in urban development in the social sciences has increasingly emphasized the importance of underground infrastructure for envisaging sustainable cities and for critiquing the economies of extraction. \u003ci\u003eUrban Undergrounds: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Perspectives \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates the urgency of integrating a below-ground perspective into the emerging field of the Urban Humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection is divided into three thematic sections that cluster and revisit different sets of well-known motifs in Underground Studies: \"Displaced\", \"Buried\" and \"Wasted\". It showcases the intermedial nature of underground-focused analyses in literature, extending from literary texts to a wider range of cultural forms, including films, graphic novels and videogames. The contributors build on recent scholarship that has expanded the field into new interdisciplinary areas, including intersections with memory studies, ecocriticism and decolonial perspectives. \u003ci\u003eUrban Undergrounds\u003c\/i\u003e also explores lesser-studied subterranes, including those of Warsaw, Athens, Mexico City, Johannesburg and Santiago de Chile. The book's substantial introduction offers a guiding theoretical and methodological framework for future scholars working with underground perspectives in literary and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis thought-provoking and illuminating collection is a valuable resource for students and scholars in the areas of Literary Urban Studies, Underground Studies and Geocriticism, and more broadly in the Urban Humanities and Spatial Humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia García\u003c\/b\u003e is Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Her publications include the monographs \u003ci\u003eThe Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) and \u003ci\u003eSpace and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). She is the Chair of the research network Fringe Urban Narratives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Pike\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Literature and Film at American University, USA. Among his monographs are \u003ci\u003ePassage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds \u003c\/i\u003e(1997); \u003cem\u003eSubterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London 1800-1945 \u003c\/em\u003e(2005); \u003cem\u003eMetropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001\u003c\/em\u003e (2007); \u003cem\u003eCold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades \u003c\/em\u003e(2021); \u003cem\u003eCorruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City \u003c\/em\u003e(with Malini Ranganathan and Sapana Doshi; 2023) and \u003cem\u003eAfter the End: Cold War Culture and Apocalyptic Imaginations in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/em\u003e (2024). \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 194\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47572105953501,"sku":"9781032914633","price":112.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/CuCA5J_Rx9781032914633.webp?v=1782186248","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/urban-undergrounds-contemporary-literary-and-cultural-perspectives-paperback-1","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}