Identity Formation in Paul Auster’s Fictional Urban Space

• Authors: Nadine Boettcher
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

How does the contemporary self depicted in Paul Auster’s fiction constitute himself in the metropolis New York City? I will investigate the extent to which New York City influences the shaping of a metropolitan identity in two selected literary works by Paul Auster: City of Glass and Sunset Park

Keywords

EN

American literature; heterotopia; identity; urban space

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 221-228

Dates

published

2013-03-01

online

2013-02-22

Contributors

author

Nadine Boettcher

• Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf

References

• Auster, Paul. 1988 (1987). The New York Trilogy: City of Glass. Ghosts. The Locked Room. London: Faber and Faber Ltd, pp. 3-133.
• Auster, Paul. 2010. Sunset Park. London: Faber and Faber Ltd.
• Baudrillard, Jean. 1989. America. Trans. Chris Turner. London: Verso.
• Berman, Marshall. 2007. “Introduction” to New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg. Marshall Berman and Brian Berger (Eds.). New York: Reaktion Books.
• Foucault, Michel. 1986. “Of Other Spaces.” Trans. Jay Miskowiec. Diacritics 16:22-27.
• Jameson, Frederic. 1991. Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. London: Verso.
• Morgan, Ted. 2008. Quoted in “New York in Quotes” in Midmanhattan.com [Online]. Available: http://www.midmanhattan.com/articles/new-york-quotes.htm [Accessed 2012, November 30] Nadell, Martha. 2010. “Writing Brooklyn”. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York. Cyrus R.
• K. Patell and Bryan Waterman (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 109-120.

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2013-0020