Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
City Margins in South Asian Literature
Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Reihe: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
ISBN: 978-0-367-87877-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
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Postgraduate and Undergraduate
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Whose City?
Madhurima Chakraborty
Part I: Urban Outcasts, Urban Subalterns
1. Recasting the Outcast: Hyderabadi Subjectivities in Two Literary Texts
Nazia Akhtar
2. The Margins of Postcolonial Urbanity: Reading Critical Irrealism in Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Fiction
Sourit Bhattacharya
3. "Someone called India": Urban Space and the Tribal Subject in Mahasweta Devi’s "Douloti
the Bountiful"
Jay Rajiva
4. "Stuck at Pause": Representations of the Comatose City in Delhi Calm
Amit Baishya
Part II: The National, The Global, and the Diaspora
5. Unmoored: Passing, Slumming, and Return-Writing in New India
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
6. Lahore, Lahore Hai: Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid’s City Fictions
Claire Chambers
7. Between Aspiration and Imagination: Exploring Native-Cosmopolitanism in Adib
Khan’s Spiral Road and Mohammad Hanif’s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
Payel Chattopadhyay Mukherjee, Arnapurna Rath and Koshy Tharakan
8. Portrayal of a Dystopic Dhaka: On Diaspora Reproductions of Bangladeshi Urbanity
Maswood Akhter
Part III: The Space of the Margins
9. Imag(in)ing the city: A Study of Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi
Nishat Haider
10. Gendering Place and Possibility in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence and Kavery
Nambisan’s A Town Like Ours
Lauren J. Lacey and Joy E. Ochs
11. Delhi at the Margins: Heterotopic Imagination, Bricolage, and Alternative Urbanity in Trickster City
Sanjukta Poddar
Part IV: Forms of Urban Outcasting
12. Carl Muller’s Palimpse