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Book SynopsisPart 1: Three Core Concerns: Crisis, Scale, Resilience.- 1. Introduction: Cities Under Stress.- 2. The Scale of the City.- 3. Urban Resilience: Disruptive discourse or more of the same for cities?.- Part 2: Environmental Crisis and Urban Resilience.- 4. A Conversation with Stephanie Saulter: Adaptation and Resilience in the Multicultural Sci-Fi City.- 5. Writing the multispecies city: Urban birds and urban poetry in the era of environmental crisis.- 6. Hope as Action in Albert Camus’s The Plague.- Part 3: Migration and the city.- 7. Role of the Outsider. Literary Representations of the 21st Century European Refugee Crisis in Contemporary Greek Literature.- 8. The Transient, The Temporary, and The Resilient: Investigations of Cultural Representations within Dubai.- 9. From Hometown to the Home of the Armenian Patriarchate: Hagop Mintzuri and Megerdich Margossian in Istanbul.- Part 4: Material and political infrastructures.- 10. Post-Victorian Tremors: Urban Mobilities in Virginia Woolf’s The Years.- 11. Tracking the Urban Crisis: The Photographic Memoirs of Michigan Central Station.- 12. Assenting Literary Journalism: Reporting Hong Kong’s 2019 Crisis.- Part 5: Translating Urban Forms.- 13. Shaping Your Own "Satin Island" and Urban Identity in the Great Report of Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015).- 14. Translating Venice: Reading a Translated City in Translation.- 15. In search of America: Indigeneity and Landscape in LA’s textile-block houses.- 16. The Story of Catherine Ségurane: Tourism, Nationalism, and Identity Crisis in Nice (1800-1860).- 17. The Man at the Window: Framing, Ways of Seeing, and Urban Crisis in Ian McEwan’s Saturday.- Part 6: The Struggle for Urban Inclusion.- 18. French Cities under Stress: Two Decades of Banlieue Narratives engaging with the Urban.- 19. Bohemians Treading Water: Housing precarity and the New Copenhagen in Jonas.- 20. Resisting Erasure, and Reclaiming Queer Space: The Urban Crisis of Male Prostitution in Oswald and Hirschfeld’s Anders als die Andern.- 21. Delhi: The Contestation of Survival Between The City And Its People.- Part 7: Models of Resilience and Resistance.- 22. The Irony of Virtue Among Street Children in Amma Darko’s Faceless and Chris Abani’s Graceland.- 23. Co-Creation Using Street Art in Cities under Stress in Mexico and Britain.- 24. Fire’s Urban Conditions in Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Harbart.- 25. Epilogue.
