Employing the literary imaginings of the postcolonial city in texts set in Naples and Mumbai from the 1990s to the present, this book posits the discourse on criminality as a way to investigate the contemporary spatial manifestations of coloniality and global capitalist urbanity.
Employing the literary imaginings of the postcolonial city in texts set in Naples and Mumbai from the 1990s to the present, this book posits the discourse on criminality as a way to investigate the contemporary spatial manifestations of coloniality and global capitalist urbanity.
Maria Ridda is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature and Director of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent. She specialises in contemporary South Asian writing, Mediterranean studies, and the intersection between the idea of Europe and Empire today. She is the author of Imagining Bombay, London, New York and Beyond: South Asian Writing from 1990 to the Present (2015), and has published widely in journals such as Interventions, Postcolonial Studies, and Postcolonial Text . She is the co-editor of 'Decolonising the State' (Laursen et al., 2020).
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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Naples and the Siren's Children Chapter 2: Bombay, Colonialism, and Western Urban Modernity Chapter 3: Mumbai and Naples: The Dramatic Encounter of Land and Sea Chapter 4: Outsourcing, Truth, and Invisibility Chapter 5: Mafia Queens, Spectacles, and Spectres Conclusion: Can Urban Theory be Formulated from Mumbai and Naples ? Bibliography Index
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Naples and the Siren's Children Chapter 2: Bombay, Colonialism, and Western Urban Modernity Chapter 3: Mumbai and Naples: The Dramatic Encounter of Land and Sea Chapter 4: Outsourcing, Truth, and Invisibility Chapter 5: Mafia Queens, Spectacles, and Spectres Conclusion: Can Urban Theory be Formulated from Mumbai and Naples ? Bibliography Index
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