Literature and the glocal city  reshaping the English Canadian imaginary /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Ana Maria Fraile-Marcos. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2014. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 195 p.) :  ill. 
 - Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ;  29 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>1. Mobility and its disenchantments in Marie Clements' The unnatural and accidental women and Burning vision / Deena Rymhs -- 2. Embodying the glocal : immigrant and indigenous ideas of home in Tessa McWatt's Montreal / Michele Lacombe -- 3. From Rowanwood to Downtown : The Torontonians and Girls fall down / Coral Ann Howells -- 4. Dystopic urbanites : civilian cyborgs in TransCanadian speculative fictions / Belen Martin-Lucas -- 5. The intrinsic potential of glassness : narcissistic, opaque, organic modes of signifying the urban in Vancouver / Eva Darias-Beautell -- 6. The refugee as signifier in the semiotics of the glocal city : Michael Helm's Cities of refuge / Ana Maria Fraile-Marcos -- 7. Responding to late capitalism : the mall / Kit Dobson -- 8. Hipster urbanism and glocal Toronto / Brandon McFarlane -- 9. Glocalization and neoliberalism in Michael Winter's The architects are here / Herb Wyile -- 10. Ian Fleming's Canadian cities / George Elliott Clarke. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781315773681 (ebook : PDF) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Canadian literature--History and criticism.<br/>Cities and towns in literature.<br/>Globalization in literature.<br/>Place (Philosophy) in literature.