Literature and the glocal city [electronic resource] : reshaping the English Canadian imaginary / edited by Ana Maria Fraile-Marcos.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.