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  • Chapter 5 - The Neighborhood and the Sweatshop

  • from Part II - Spotlight Literary Cities
  • Edited by Ato Quayson, Stanford University, California, Jini Kim Watson, New York University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
    Published online:
    13 July 2023
    Print publication:
    27 July 2023, pp 67-82

  • Summary

    This chapter will lay out a potted account of the literature of New York and its relationship to world literature braiding two main themes: first will be that of New York as a center of self-invention, a place that was primarily commercial at its inception but progressively expanded to embrace diverse forms of ethnic, cultural, sexual, and urban interactions. And second will be to focus on the significance of neighborhoods and sweatshops as the spatial vectors through which immigrants and diasporics gain a sense of New York. The bulk of the chapter and will be devoted to a close analysis of the chronotopes of the neighborhood and the sweatshop in Toni Morrison’sJazzand Melissa Rivero’sThe Affairs of the Falcónsrespectively as a means of grasping the relationship between localized foci of individual mobility, identity, and alienation in the literature of New York and the ways in which we might also discern these as key organizing principles of world literature.