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Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (>>DiverCity<<). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, >>What We All Long For<< (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, >>Native Speaker<< (1995), and Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, >>Tropic of Orange<< (1997), Melanie U. Pooch provides the connecting link for exploring the triad of globalization and its effects, global cities as cultural nodal points, and cultural diversity in a globalizing age as a literary phenomenon. Thus, she contributes to a global, interdisciplinary, and multi-perspectival understanding of literature, culture, and society.