GEOGRAPHIES OF MEMORY AND POSTWAR URBAN REGENERATION IN BRITISH LITERATURE. LONDON AS PALIMPSEST
GEOGRAPHIES OF MEMORY AND POSTWAR URBAN REGENERATION IN BRITISH LITERATURE. LONDON AS PALIMPSEST

Summary/Abstract: This review introduces the reader to a remarkable study on recent British fiction, which “proposes a new interdisciplinary approach to the representations of London in contemporary British literature by exploring the interplay between reality and fiction in mapping the urban imaginary”. By means of correlating geocriticism, spatial literary studies and memory studies, Alina Cojocaru’s research “conducts a geocritical analysis of London in recent British literature published between 1975-2005, exploring the literary representations of the real urban restructurings prompted by the rebuilding projects aimed to revitalize the war and poverty-stricken districts of London, the reterritorialization and remapping of the metropolis by immigrants, the gentrification and displacement of communities, as well as the urban dissolution caused by terrorism”.

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