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
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
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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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
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
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