Peacock, JH (2021) Gentrification. In: The City in American Literature and Culture. Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture . CUP, pp. 103-117. ISBN 9781108895262

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Abstract

This chapter uproots the border from the perimeter of the country, from the traditional dyad in which it is embedded and releases it in the urban landscape. The premise is that just as the category of space has been mobilized in the work of geographers such as Doreen Massey, it is possible to transfer this process of destabilization to the concept of the border and the shifting categories of crossers and gatekeepers. Borders are always in the process of being reconfigured, always in the midst of being drawn but also blurred. Through a selection of works by Latinx and Asian American writers the chapter looks at borders not only in their “ordering” dimension but also as sites that allow for reordering strategies of self-definition. These writers occupy a border in process and write from within the border. As a result, the places of resettlement where ethnoracialized and subaltern subjects have been traditionally relocated become repossessed to constitute a privileged standpoint and a self-fashioning from within. This double perspective of urban borders allows both to acknowledge the productivity of boundaries as well as their violation and subversion.

Item Type: Book Section
Additional Information: The final version of this article and all relevant information related to it, including copyrights, can be found on the publisher website at; https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/city-in-american-literature-and-culture/gentrification/0FAF8AE60BF30F89DA5B6452B6E0BE3A
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HA Statistics
H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Humanities
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Date Deposited: 11 Jan 2022 15:21
Last Modified: 11 Jan 2022 15:21
URI: https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/10494

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