“New York and yet not New York”: Reading the Region in Contemporary Brooklyn Fictions
The article analyzes the depiction of Brooklyn as an urban region in a number of recent American novels, including Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s Leaving Brooklyn and Kitty Burns Florey’s Solos. It argues that Brooklyn is frequently defined in opposition to Manhattan: the former being viewed as the epitome...
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| Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2008-12-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/6403 |