Abstract:The article examines the nostalgic landscape of Miami depicted in Susanna Daniel's debut novel Stiltsville (2010). The setting of the novel is the actual community named in the title of the book and it refers to a group of houses built on pilings about a mile offshore in Biscayne Bay. The analysis proceeds according to methodology presented by the literary theorist Hana Wirth-Nesher in her article titled "Impartial Maps: Reading and Writing Cities", published in Handbook of Urban Studies (2001), in which she i… Show more
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