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Who Owns the City? China Miéville’s The City and The City as an Urban Gothic Dystopia
Who Owns the City? China Miéville’s The City and The City as an Urban Gothic Dystopia // Studies in Gothic Fiction, 6 (2020), 2; 16-26 doi:10.18573/sgf.9 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
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Naslov
Who Owns the City? China Miéville’s The City and
The City as an Urban Gothic Dystopia
Autori
Matek, Ljubica
Izvornik
Studies in Gothic Fiction (2156-2407) 6
(2020), 2;
16-26
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni
Ključne riječi
city, urban Gothic, space, capitalism, China Miéville
Sažetak
The paper considers China Miéville’s novel "The City and The City" from the point of view of geography of space suggesting that the capital is the dominating force that shapes urban reality. The novel builds on the traditional Victorian Gothic ideas of the city as a place of dual existence and exploits the topoi of the noir, but instead of focusing on the individual and the issues of psychological doubling and existential plights of a detective, it is more concerned with the modes of production and the way that capitalism continuously re-invents itself by its use of space without making itself known. The plot elements and aesthetics of film noir add to the mystery of murder, of the twin cities’ identity, and highlight the false consciousness of the masses which enables the ideology’s effectiveness.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Književnost
