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Introduction: Peripherality and Literary Urban Studiesrbanized. Literary urban studies, with its traditional focus on the imposing capitals of modernity and postmodernity, has so far remained underdeveloped in its engagement with these new developments. In much of the scholarly research on city literature, cities that are below the radar of Western met

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“It’s Six A.M. Do You Know Where You Are?” Urban Peripherality and the Narrative Framing of Literary place. I argue that the opening pages of a novel are essential in delineating not only the spatial and temporal surroundings within which protagonists and readers are supposed to settle (or be unsettled). They are also instrumental in demarcating social, moral and (meta)poetical geographies, as wel

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A Topography of Refuse: Waste, the Suburb, and Pynchon’s “Low-lands”the type of housing with a specific moral order, is the significant background of the American-style notion of the suburb and its derivative words (suburban, suburbia) as they evolved in the post-war decades, and as they are used in this chapter. It is only in the last ten years that these equations

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A Suburban Revision of Nostalgia: the Case of , by Alejandro Zambra as one of . Best of Young Spanish-Language novelists. Besides showing the complexity of the centre-periphery dichotomy, Zambra’s third novel reveals how the urban periphery can be deployed to communicate different political messages.

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