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<p>In his novel <italic>Netherland</italic>, Joseph O’Neill discusses several issues that arise for a contemporary wanderer or immigrant, namely, issues of adjustment, cultural transition, becoming visible, etc. The search for a new home is accompanied by the idea of a new place and the memory of the native place. Immigrants provide a particular perspective of the city from the position of an outsider. New York is the city that allows seeing the correlation between a geographic perception and the idea of a place that is formed by an immigrant. Real places of New York and their fictional representations in O’Neill’s novel become the focus of this study. The geocritical approach is employed as a productive tool for the analysis of New York spatiality and myth-making.</p>
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In his novel Netherland, Joseph O’Neill discusses several issues that arise for a contemporary wanderer or immigrant, namely, issues of adjustment, cultural transition, becoming visible, etc. The search for a new home is accompanied by the idea of a new place and the memory of the native place. Immigrants provide a particular perspective of the city from the position of an outsider. New York is the city that allows seeing the correlation between a geographic perception and the idea of a place that is formed by an immigrant. Real places of New York and their fictional representations in O’Neill’s novel become the focus of this study. The geocritical approach is employed as a productive tool for the analysis of New York spatiality and myth-making.

Cricket Playing in America: Real and Imagined Places of New York in Joseph O’Neill’s <italic>Netherland</italic>

Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University in Mykolaiv

East-West Cultural Passage

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Cricket Playing in America: Real and Imagined Places of New York in Joseph O’Neill’s 

In his novel Netherland, Joseph O’Neill discusses several issues that arise for a contemporary wanderer or immigrant, namely, issues of adjustment, cultural...

Cricket Playing in America: Real and Imagined Places of New York in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland

Published Online: Apr 10, 2022

Page range: 65 - 86

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2021-0014

Keywords
space, place, placeness, spatiality, geocriticism, transgressivity, spatiotemporality, polisensoriality, multi-focalization, immigration narrative

© 2021 Oksana Starshova, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Cricket Playing in America: Real and Imagined Places of New York in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland

Published Online: Apr 10, 2022

Page range: 65 - 86

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2021-0014

Keywordsspace, place, placeness, spatiality, geocriticism, transgressivity, spatiotemporality, polisensoriality, multi-focalization, immigration narrative

© 2021 Oksana Starshova, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
space, place, placeness, spatiality, geocriticism, transgressivity, spatiotemporality, polisensoriality, multi-focalization, immigration narrative