![]() This reference to ‘our race’ implying a monocultural entity 29feels distinctly an anachronistic read now at a time when multi-ethnicity The city sophisticates, has been told often enough it is time somebody spoke of the suburbs, for therein, I have sometimesįelt, lies the history of our race’ ( Delderfield 1958:xi). Of these The Dreaming Suburb maintains ‘The story of the country-dwellers, and Writer of non-fiction feels the need to justify their subject of enquiry as urgently needing elucidation the first volume Sweep of events and moralistic undertone of the Delderfield ‘Avenue’ books set from 1919 to 1940. At the other extreme of suburban fiction can be found the historical Garreau) environment where business and technology are emeshed with multinationalĬorporations in a sprawl called BAMA, the Boston–Atlanta Metropolitan Axis in which the entire American East Coast fromīoston to Atlanta, have merged into a single urban mass. At one extreme the futuristic Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984) which contains the first ever mention of the word ‘cyberspace’ describesĪ postsuburban ‘edge city’ (cf. Yet the examples of such work are voluminousĪnd vary vastly. Presumablyĭue to its perceived naffness, there is no equivalent volume dealing with the suburb. There is a Penguin Book of the City an anthology of fictional writing capturing stories spun in the metropolis. The suburbs still manage to be comparatively marginalized in overview considerations of fiction. Perhaps somewhat befitting their positioning vis-a-vis the city, ![]()
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