Maria Ridda

Criminality and Power in the Postcolonial City

Mapping the Mean Streets of Mumbai and Naples

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781138303874
• ISBN-10: 1138303879
• Artikelnr.: 64360687

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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