Urban Undergrounds : Contemporary Literary and Cultural Perspectives (Paperback)

1. Introduction: Underground Studies in the Humanities Today; 2. Literary Hellscapes and Urban Ontologies; 3. Katabasis and Climate Change; 4. Platform Change: The Santiago Metro as an Underground Portal in Chilean Science Fiction; 5. Intersecting Modernity’s Underground Imaginaries in Paris and the RER; 6. Collectivity and Care in the Necropolis: Mexico City Underground in Gabriela Jauregui’s Feral; 7. Urban Undergrounds and ‘Deep’ Psychology in the Maximalist Novels of Ernesto Sabato and Mircea C?rt?rescu; 8. A Psychogeographic Exploration of Johannesburg’s Literary Urban Underground; 9. Buried Chaos: Elden Ring’s Undergrounds and the Videoludic Palimpsest(s); 10. Myth no more? The Warsaw Sewers in Literature, Music and Film; 11. Into the Bowels of London: Underground as Margin of the Fantastic in Michael Moorcock’s Mother London and Peter Ackroyd’s London Under; 12. “Welcome to the realm of the homeless”. Athens’ Underworld in Contemporary City Literature; Index