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Places and mazes: Unmappable cities in modern anglophone literature.
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Places and mazes: Unmappable cities in modern anglophone literature./
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Jang, Sungjin.
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Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
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205 p.
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-06(E), Section: A.
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Dissertation Abstracts International77-06A(E).
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English literature. -
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Places and mazes: Unmappable cities in modern anglophone literature.
Jang, Sungjin.
Places and mazes: Unmappable cities in modern anglophone literature.
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 205 p.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-06(E), Section: A.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Tulsa, 2015.
Places and Mazes: Unmappable Cities in Modern Anglophone Literature traces the disruption, caused by the breakdown of space and place, of the individual's fixed identity in the modern city. In particular, I examine how characters in the novels of Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, and Zadie Smith attempt to find their own identities by mapping cities using the metaphors of the labyrinth and the maze. In The Secret Agent (1907), Conrad's London shows how the unification of space and place falls apart. London, its streets, the homes of Verloc, Michaelis, and the Professor, and the Italian restaurant all become unmappable, and, as a result, characters get lost and lose their identities. Although Winnie and Verloc attempt to read this unmappable London, they eventually face miserable deaths. If the breakdown of space and place in The Secret Agent does not produce any meaningful results, the collapse of space and place in James Joyce's Dublin in the "Wandering Rocks" episode of Ulysses (1922) opens up a possibility of the multi-placedness of space. While Joyce was playing a German game called the "Labyrinth-Spiel" with his daughter, he realized that space could be tied to different places. With this realization, Joyce makes "Wandering Rocks" a maze by inserting thirty-one interpolations in the nineteen sections of the episode, thus allowing readers to read Dublin in their own ways. Whereas Joyce's multi-placedness signifies the importance of space to highlight the break between space and place, Rushdie's use of memory in Midnight's Children (1981) suggests that space no longer matters: only place carries any meaning. Saleem, the protagonist of the novel, enjoys the pleasure of getting lost by taking multiple pathways that arise because of the inaccuracy of his memory, and the difference between Saleem's narrating of events versus other Indian writers' or even historical fact results in the production of Saleem's own Bombay, a version among other, equally true Bombays. In contrast to Rushdie, who treats identity on a national scale, Zadie Smith's novel White Teeth (2000) focuses on the journey individual characters make in Willesden, a suburb of London, to find their own identities. Despite the mazed nature of Willesden, the characters Samad, Millat, and Magid all believe that there is one way towards their fixed identities. Unlike them, Archie and Irie embrace the pleasure getting lost without finding any fixed, authentic identities. However, if Archie passively submits himself to chance by flipping a coin whenever he needs to make a decision, Irie actively make her own choices, thus trying to make a way for herself in mazed Willesden. Place's relationship to space, and therefore to identity, changes throughout the twentieth century, beginning as a unification that breaks down in early twentieth century literature and ending as a total abstraction that is no longer tied to geographical space. Identity therefore becomes unhinged, and it is only those characters who can acclimate themselves to the multiplicity of place and identity that can cope with the modern world.
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