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Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian Literature: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Editat de Madhurima Chakraborty, Umme Al-wazedi
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Extending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontents of the South Asian city. The collection investigates how South Asian literature and literature about South Asia attends to urban margins, regardless of whether the definition of margin is spatial, psychological, gendered, or sociopolitical. That cities are a site of profound paradoxes is nowhere clearer than in South Asia, where urban areas simultaneously represent both the frontiers of globalization as well as the deeply troubling social and political inequalities of the global south. Additionally, because South Asian cities are defined by the palimpsestic confluence of, among other things, colonial oppression, anticolonial nationalism, postcolonial governance, and twenty-first century transnational capital, they are sites where the many faces of empowerment and disempowerment are elaborated. The volume brings together essays that emphasize myriad critical approaches—geospatial, urban-theoretical, diasporic, subaltern, and others. United in their critical empathy for urban outcasts, the chapters respond to central questions such as: What is the relationship between the politico-economic narratives of globally emerging South Asian cities and the dispossessed? How do South Asian cities stand in relationship to the nation and, conversely, how might South Asians in diaspora construct these cities within larger narratives of development, globalization, or as sources of authentic ethnic identities? How is the very skeleton—the space, the territory—of South Asian cities marked with and by exclusionary politics? How do the aesthetic and formal choices undertaken by writers determine the potential for and limit to emancipation of urban outcasts from their oppressive circumstances? Considering fiction, nonfiction, comics, and genre fiction from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka; literature from the twentieth and the twenty-first century; and w
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ISBN-13: 9780367878771
ISBN-10: 0367878771
Pagini: 294
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

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

Notă biografică

Madhurima Chakraborty is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literature in the Department of English, Columbia College Chicago, USA.


Umme Al-wazedi is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature in the Department of English and Co-Program Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Augustana College, USA.

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Extending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontents of the South Asian city. It investigates how South Asian literature and literature about South Asia attends to urban margins, regardless of whether the definition of margin is spatial, psychological, gendered, or sociopolitic