Ann Tso: The Literary Psychogeography of London, Gebunden

Blurb

This Pivot book examines literary elements of urban topography that have animated Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair¿s respective representations of London-ness. Ann Tso argues these authors write London ¿psychogeographically¿ to deconstruct popular visions of London with colonial and neoliberal undertones. Moore¿s psychogeography consists of bird¿s-eye views that reveal the brute force threatening to unravel Londonscape from within; Ackroyd¿s aims to detect London sensuously, since every new awareness recalls an otherworldly London; Sinclair¿s conjures up a narrative consciousness made erratic by London¿s disunified landscape. Drawing together the dystopian, the phenomenological, and the postcolonial, Tso explores how these texts characterize ¿London-ness¿ as estranging.