Urban Twinship: The Body of the Futuristic City in Jeff VanderMeerâs Veniss Underground

Inbar Kaminsky

Jump to Content

Urban Twinship: The Body of the Futuristic City in Jeff VanderMeerâs Veniss Underground

In: Cityscapes of the Future

Author:

Inbar Kaminsky

Inbar Kaminsky
Search for other papers by Inbar Kaminsky in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed

Type:: Chapter

Pages:: 13â27

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004361317_003

Purchase instant access (PDF download and unlimited online access):

â¬42.00â¬35.00Â excl. VAT

Add to Cart

Redeem Access Token

Abstract

This chapter strives to examine the relation between the urbanite and the city he resides in and to redefine the representation of the body in futuristic urban novels by using Jeff VanderMeerâs Veniss Underground as a case study, maintaining that the representation of charactersâ corporeality is inevitably entangled with the corporeality of the city. By tracing the charactersâ disengagement from their physical bodies, this chapter explores the ways in which the narrative compensates for the aforementioned disparity, including the personification of the city, the formation of the post-human, the use of decadent technology and the poetics of violence. In addition, the article discusses the contribution of postmodernism to the formation of the surreal body of the city by tracing the collapse of the characterisation body from the collapse of master narratives and onto the collapse of unifying systems of meaning and understanding.

Citation Info

Save
Cite
Email this content

Share link with colleague or librarian

You can email a link to this page to a colleague or librarian:
Email this content
or copy the link directly:

https://brill.edhh.ma/abstract/book/9789004361317/B9789004361317_003.xml
The link was not copied. Your current browser may not support copying via this button.

Link copied successfully

Collapse
Expand

Cityscapes of the Future

Urban Spaces in Science Fiction

Series:Â Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume: 53

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004361317

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 19 Feb 2018

Subjects
- Literature and Cultural Studies

Front Matter

Metrics

	All Time	Past 365 days	Past 30 Days
Abstract Views	225	95	8
Full Text Views	10	1	0
PDF Views & Downloads	24	2	0

African Studies	Education	Media Studies
American Studies	History	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Ancient Near East and Egypt	Human Rights and Humanitarian Law	Musicology
Art History	International Law	Philosophy
Asian Studies	International Relations	Religious Studies
Biblical Studies	Jewish Studies	Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Biology	Languages and Linguistics	Social Sciences
Book History and Cartography	Life Sciences	Theology and World Christianity
Classical Studies	Literature and Cultural Studies

Subjects

Authors

Open Access

Product Information

Company

Contact

Urban Twinship: The Body of the Futuristic City in Jeff VanderMeerâs Veniss Underground

Abstract

Citation Info

Share link with colleague or librarian

Cityscapes of the Future

Urban Spaces in Science Fiction

Table of Contents

Metrics

Metrics

Urban Twinship: The Body of the Futuristic City in Jeff VanderMeerâs Veniss Underground