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Salman Rushdie's Cities: Reconfigurational Politics and the Contemporary Urban Imagination de Vassilena Parashkevova

Salman Rushdie's Cities: Reconfigurational Politics and the Contemporary Urban Imagination

Autor Vassilena Parashkevova
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 feb 2012
Employing Salman Rushdie as a guide to a historicized contemporary, this study offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the plurality of cities along his transnational trajectory. It engages with the geographically identifiable Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad, London or New York; the phantasmal, politically coded, Jahilia or Mildendo, the inspirational yet flawed urban precedents of Fatehpur Sikri or Renaissance Florence and the ways these cities generate, interact with and transform each other.
 
The book situates Rushdie's cities in relation to developments in Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad and London writing and focuses on novels which shuttle between cities. Parashkevova attends to cities' cultural and historical contexts, to many of Rushdie's numerous literary, cinematic and artistic influences and to diverse events, processes and paradigms - earthquakes, translations, seductions - that politically re-position cities and citizens on the contemporary urban map.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781441148506
ISBN-10: 1441148507
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Surveys postmodern, contemporary and postcolonial writers: Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Zadie Smith, Hanif Kureishi.

Notă biografică

Vassilena Parashkevova is the Bibliography Editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Associate Lecturer in English Literature at London South Bank University.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements \ Abbreviations \ An Alphabet of Rushdie's Cities \ 1. Introduction: Salman Rushdie's Cities and Reconfigurational Politics \ 2. Partition and after: Bombay Re/beginnings and Subcontinental Twin Cities in Midnight's Children and Shame \ 3. Bombay, London, Jahilia: Di/versifications and Di/versions in The Satanic Verses \ 4. War of the Worlds: Bombay Diptychs and Triptychs in The Moor's Last Sigh \ 5. Quaking Solid Ground: Trojan Falls and Roman Rises in The Ground beneath Her Feet \ 6. Metropolitan Desires: Glocalist Seductions in Fury and Shalimar the Clown \ 7. Mirrors-for-cities: Florence and Fatehpur Sikri, or Machiavelli and 'the Prince' in The Enchantress of Florence \ Afterword: Urban Thresholds: the Respectorate of I and the Insultana of the Otter Way \ Notes \  Bibliography \ Index

Recenzii

'Written in a lucid and compelling style, Salman Rushdie's Cities is both a major contribution to work on Rushdie's fiction and a probing investigation of the relationships between interconnected global cities. Tracing parallels across cultures, Parashkevova explores the significance of Rushdie's urban praxis for a historicized view of the 'contemporary', which stresses the political worldliness of literature.'
'In Salman Rushdie's Cities, Vassilena Parashkevova provides timely and theoretically astute analysis of Rushdie's representations of such cities as Bombay, New York, Karachi, and London, arguing that his depictions are inspired by the reflective yet illusory potential of the mirror. As in the Indian embroidery tradition of mirrorwork (by which Rushdie himself has also been inspired), the writing and research in this important monograph is meticulously detailed and elegantly patterned. '
'Reading Rushdie through topographies both real and imaginary, from his idealising nostalgia for Bombay to his vision of Jahilia, has given Vassilena Parashkevova a subtle passkey to this author's polymorphous and ever-provocative mind. She has entered the invisible cities of Rushdie's fiction and political thought, with their mirror pairs of utopias and dystopias, transgressors and conservatives, transformers and self-exiles, strangers, and natives, and fashioned a lucid, learned, richly detailed and stimulating analysis, which does justice to Rushdie's brilliance and fertility, while taking cognizance of his tics and limits.'
Readers do not have to have read and be familiar with Rushdie's novels to read this book. Parashkevova gets her points across through concise and adept description of plots, narratives and characters, so that non-Rushdie readers can follow and appreciate Parashkevova's arguments. Those who have read the novels, however, will benefit from a different perspective on the worlds within [.] On the whole, the book's writing is smart and densely packed, and its pace fast and unrelenting [.] Salman Rushdie's cities provides a critical lens into the portrayal and evolution of cities and its inhabitants in Rushdie's novels. It masterfully combines literary criticism, urban theory and political commentary.