Urban Informality and Narrative Form

Urban Informality and Narrative Form brings together literary analysis and spatial planning theory in an interdisciplinary study of urban informality. It examines a diverse array of literary and cinematic fictions from across the globe in dialogue with influential social scientific studies of urban informality.

Eric Prieto is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is the author of Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place (2012) and co-editor of Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance (with Liam Lanigan and Anni Lappela; 2025).