New Suburban Stories

Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, New Suburban Stories brings together new research from leading international scholars to examine cultural representations of the suburbs, home to a rapidly increasing proportion of the world's population. Focussing in particular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to suburbia, the book considers how suburban communities have taken control of their own representation to tell their own stories in contemporary novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media and public art.

Martin Dines is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University, UK. He is the author of Gay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture (2009).

Timotheus Vermeulen is Assistant Professor in Cultural Theory and Director of the Centre for New Aesthetics at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Introduction: New Suburban Stories, Martin Dines and Timotheus Vermeulen \ Part I: Delineating
the Margins \ 1. Mapping the Suburbs: Cartographic Representation of Villa Celina, Buenos Aires, 1955-2011, Adriana Massidda \ 2. From Riots to Designer Shoes: Tout ce qui brille/All that Glitters (2010) and Changing Representations of the Banlieue in French Cinema, Carrie Tarr \ 3. Entering
No-Go Areas: Suburbs in Contemporary German Literature, Caroline Merkel \ 4. J.G. Ballard: The ‘Seer of Shepperton' as the Seer of Suburbia, Jarrad Keyes \ Part II: The Past in its Place \ 5. The Shifting Ground of Commemoration in an Australian Suburb, Hannah Lewi and Caroline Jordan \ 6.The Future and Come and Gone: Managing Change in the Aging Suburbs, Alan Mace \ 7. Where the Heart
Is: Cinema and Civic Life in Singapore, Gaik Khoo \ Part III: Aesthetics of Affect \ 8.‘The Shhh of Sprays On All the Little Lawns': Imagining the Post-War American Suburbs, Joanna Gill \ 9. ‘Nothing Seemed Familiar, Yet Everything Was Very, Very Familiar': Rethinking Bill Owens's Suburbia, Bridget Gilman 10. ‘A More Interesting Surgery on the Suburbs': Richard Ford's Paean to the New Jersey Periphery, Tim Foster \ 11. Ordinary Geographies: Trajectories of Affect in the Work of Kathleen Stewart and D.J. Waldie, Neil Campbell \ Part IV: Suburban Communities and Cultural Production \ 12. A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird: Animals, Suburbia and the Evolving Terrain of Production, Consumption, and Representation, Hugh Bartling \ 13. Kvart KVART: Art Activism at the Urban Periphery in Croatia, Dalibor Prancevic \ 14. ‘MANS IS ON STAGE': Rappers as Disseminators of (Sub)Urban Language Varieties, Nichola Smalley \ 15. The Goat Boy of Mount Seething: Heritage
and the English Suburbs, Helen Wickstead \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index.