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Research in urban development in the social sciences has increasingly emphasized the importance of underground infrastructure for envisaging sustainable cities and for critiquing the economies of extraction. Urban Undergrounds: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Perspectives demonstrates the urgency of integrating a below-ground perspective into the emerging field of urban humanities.

The collection is divided into three thematic sections that cluster and revisit different sets of well-known motifs in underground studies: âœDisplacedâ, âœWastedâ and âœBuried.â It showcases the intermedial nature of underground-focused analyses in literature, extending from literary texts to a wider range of cultural forms, including films, graphic novels and videogames. The contributors build on recent scholarship that has expanded the field into new interdisciplinary areas, including intersections with memory studies, ecocriticism and decolonial perspectives. Urban Undergrounds

Urban Undergrounds

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 5/20/2025
      ISBN-13 9781032914633
      978-1032914633
      ISBN-10 1032914637

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      Book Synopsis

      Research in urban development in the social sciences has increasingly emphasized the importance of underground infrastructure for envisaging sustainable cities and for critiquing the economies of extraction. Urban Undergrounds: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Perspectives demonstrates the urgency of integrating a below-ground perspective into the emerging field of urban humanities.

      The collection is divided into three thematic sections that cluster and revisit different sets of well-known motifs in underground studies: âœDisplacedâ, âœWastedâ and âœBuried.â It showcases the intermedial nature of underground-focused analyses in literature, extending from literary texts to a wider range of cultural forms, including films, graphic novels and videogames. The contributors build on recent scholarship that has expanded the field into new interdisciplinary areas, including intersections with memory studies, ecocriticism and decolonial perspectives. Urban Undergrounds

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