The City Speaks: Urban Spaces in Indian Literature
Editat de Subashish Bhattacharjee, Goutam Karmakaren Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mai 2024
Unfolding the urban-literary landscape of India, the volume lays the groundwork for an urban studies approach to Indian literature. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of literature, especially Indian writing in English, urban studies, and South Asian studies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032347721
ISBN-10: 1032347724
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032347724
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
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Foreword: From Spatial Experience to Experienced Space: Representations, Recollections and Reproductions of the Urban Spaces in Indian Literature
Mustafa Zeki Çirakli
Introduction: Writing Cities: Appropriating the Urban in Indian Literatures
Subashish Bhattacharjee and Goutam Karmakar
Part 1: Fictions of the ‘Cities at the Centre’
1. City’s Deity: Exploring the Urban and Sacred Space in Anita Desai’s Voices and the City and Journey to Ithaca
Deeptangshu Das
2. Khushwant Singh’s Delhi: A Multi-Layered Projection of an Anthropomorphised City
Sarani Ghosal Mondal
3. Diasporic Return to Calcutta in Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter and Days and Nights in Calcutta
Rima Bhattacharya
4. Stories by the Sea: Memories and Space in Amit Chaudhuri’s Friend of My Youth
Sayan Aich Bhowmik
5. ‘…not exactly fear, but unease, an apprehension’: flânerie and the tactics of survival in Baumgartner’s Bombay
Rupayan Mukherjee
6. Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis: The Networked City
Amrutha Kunapalli
7. At Home in City (?): Reading the Destabilising New City in Raj Kamal Jha’s She Will Build Him a City
Kuheli Singha
8. The Radical, the Bourgeois and the Alienated in the City in Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others
Nilanjan Chakraborty
9. Discovering New Cities and Their Underbellies within the Old: Seeing the Periphery of Kolkata through the Lens of Kunal Basu’s Kalkatta
Avijit Das and Shri Krishan Rai
10. Palimpsestic Jungle/Jumble: Visceral Urbanism in Rajat Chaudhuri’s Hotel Calcutta
Subhadeep Paul
11. Mumbai Queered: Perils and Pleasures of the Sexual Metropolis in Murder in Mahim
Somdatta Bhattacharya
12. ‘Botanising on the Asphalt’: Towards an alternate cityscape of Delhi and its urbane citizenry in Ravish Kumar’s Ishq Mein Shahar Hona
Rajarshi Roy
Part 2: Fictions from the Fringes
13. Rohinton Mistry’s city by the sea: a place to call home?
Natacha Lasorak
14. Urban Spaces and Fading Culture in Mamang Dai’s Fictions: A Postmodern Reading of City Life
Debajyoti Biswas
15. Evolution of Heterotopic Space: Unearthing the Toxic Cityscape in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People
Somasree Sarkar and Neha Kumari
16. Cosmopolitanism and Trade Relations: Analysing the port city of Muziris through Sethumadhavan’s The Saga of Muziris
Maya Vinai and Revathy Hemachandran
Part 3: Staging the City
17. ‘Cities Imprison and Kill the Blood’: Exploring the Politics of the Representation of the Country and the City in Rabindranath Tagore’s Red Oleanders
Arnab Chatterjee
18. Girish Karnad’s Consideration of ‘Urban Spaces’ for His Plays
Jolly Das
19. A Tale of Two Cities: Showcasing the Façade of the Indian Metropolis in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out and Harvest
Praggnaparamita Biswas
20. City, Space & Spectacle: Parsi Theatre’s Indar Sabha
Sib Sankar Majumdar
Part 4: Poetics of the Cities
21. Imagery of Revolt and Withdrawal: The City-Country Interface in the Poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla and Adil Jussawalla
Baisali Hui
22. ‘How can she feel at home in so many places?’: City, home, and diasporic subjectivity in Sujata Bhatt’s poetry
Joyjit Ghosh
23. When a City Speaks: Tracing the voices and visions of Mumbai in Gopal Lahiri and Sunil Sharma’s Cities: Two Perspectives
Goutam Karmakar
Part 5: The City in Itself
24. Liberating the Cursed City: Looking through Jiddu Krishnamurti and Sisirkumar Ghose
Goutam Ghosal
25. Journey from Alienation to Integration: Travel, Urban Space, and Chronotope in Bharati Mukherjee’s Days and Nights in Calcutta
Basundhara Chakraborty
26. Psychogeographies: Urban Space and Situationism in Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Ujjwal Kr. Panda
Mustafa Zeki Çirakli
Introduction: Writing Cities: Appropriating the Urban in Indian Literatures
Subashish Bhattacharjee and Goutam Karmakar
Part 1: Fictions of the ‘Cities at the Centre’
1. City’s Deity: Exploring the Urban and Sacred Space in Anita Desai’s Voices and the City and Journey to Ithaca
Deeptangshu Das
2. Khushwant Singh’s Delhi: A Multi-Layered Projection of an Anthropomorphised City
Sarani Ghosal Mondal
3. Diasporic Return to Calcutta in Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter and Days and Nights in Calcutta
Rima Bhattacharya
4. Stories by the Sea: Memories and Space in Amit Chaudhuri’s Friend of My Youth
Sayan Aich Bhowmik
5. ‘…not exactly fear, but unease, an apprehension’: flânerie and the tactics of survival in Baumgartner’s Bombay
Rupayan Mukherjee
6. Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis: The Networked City
Amrutha Kunapalli
7. At Home in City (?): Reading the Destabilising New City in Raj Kamal Jha’s She Will Build Him a City
Kuheli Singha
8. The Radical, the Bourgeois and the Alienated in the City in Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others
Nilanjan Chakraborty
9. Discovering New Cities and Their Underbellies within the Old: Seeing the Periphery of Kolkata through the Lens of Kunal Basu’s Kalkatta
Avijit Das and Shri Krishan Rai
10. Palimpsestic Jungle/Jumble: Visceral Urbanism in Rajat Chaudhuri’s Hotel Calcutta
Subhadeep Paul
11. Mumbai Queered: Perils and Pleasures of the Sexual Metropolis in Murder in Mahim
Somdatta Bhattacharya
12. ‘Botanising on the Asphalt’: Towards an alternate cityscape of Delhi and its urbane citizenry in Ravish Kumar’s Ishq Mein Shahar Hona
Rajarshi Roy
Part 2: Fictions from the Fringes
13. Rohinton Mistry’s city by the sea: a place to call home?
Natacha Lasorak
14. Urban Spaces and Fading Culture in Mamang Dai’s Fictions: A Postmodern Reading of City Life
Debajyoti Biswas
15. Evolution of Heterotopic Space: Unearthing the Toxic Cityscape in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People
Somasree Sarkar and Neha Kumari
16. Cosmopolitanism and Trade Relations: Analysing the port city of Muziris through Sethumadhavan’s The Saga of Muziris
Maya Vinai and Revathy Hemachandran
Part 3: Staging the City
17. ‘Cities Imprison and Kill the Blood’: Exploring the Politics of the Representation of the Country and the City in Rabindranath Tagore’s Red Oleanders
Arnab Chatterjee
18. Girish Karnad’s Consideration of ‘Urban Spaces’ for His Plays
Jolly Das
19. A Tale of Two Cities: Showcasing the Façade of the Indian Metropolis in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out and Harvest
Praggnaparamita Biswas
20. City, Space & Spectacle: Parsi Theatre’s Indar Sabha
Sib Sankar Majumdar
Part 4: Poetics of the Cities
21. Imagery of Revolt and Withdrawal: The City-Country Interface in the Poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla and Adil Jussawalla
Baisali Hui
22. ‘How can she feel at home in so many places?’: City, home, and diasporic subjectivity in Sujata Bhatt’s poetry
Joyjit Ghosh
23. When a City Speaks: Tracing the voices and visions of Mumbai in Gopal Lahiri and Sunil Sharma’s Cities: Two Perspectives
Goutam Karmakar
Part 5: The City in Itself
24. Liberating the Cursed City: Looking through Jiddu Krishnamurti and Sisirkumar Ghose
Goutam Ghosal
25. Journey from Alienation to Integration: Travel, Urban Space, and Chronotope in Bharati Mukherjee’s Days and Nights in Calcutta
Basundhara Chakraborty
26. Psychogeographies: Urban Space and Situationism in Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Ujjwal Kr. Panda
Notă biografică
Subashish Bhattacharjee is Assistant Professor of English at Munshi Premchand Mahavidyalaya, University of North Bengal, India. His doctoral research, at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, is on the interstices of continental philosophy and architecture. He has authored/edited several volumes including Queering Visual Cultures (2018), New Women’s Writing (2018), Japanese Horror Culture (2021), and Hororo Cogitaire (forthcoming).
Goutam Karmakar, Ph.D. (English), is Assistant Professor of English at Barabazar Bikram Tudu Memorial College, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal, India. His forthcoming and recently published edited books are Nation and Narration: Hindi Cinema and the Making and Remaking of National Consciousness (forthcoming), Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature (forthcoming) and Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins and Extremism (2021). He has been published in journals including MELUS, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, South Asian Review, Journal of Gender Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, National Identities, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, and Asiatic among others.
Goutam Karmakar, Ph.D. (English), is Assistant Professor of English at Barabazar Bikram Tudu Memorial College, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal, India. His forthcoming and recently published edited books are Nation and Narration: Hindi Cinema and the Making and Remaking of National Consciousness (forthcoming), Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature (forthcoming) and Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins and Extremism (2021). He has been published in journals including MELUS, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, South Asian Review, Journal of Gender Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, National Identities, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, and Asiatic among others.
Descriere
This book studies the significance and representation of the ‘city’ in the writings of Indian poets, graphic novelists, and dramatists.