Delhi: New Literatures of the Megacity (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Tickell, Alex; Ranasinha, Ruvani

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book charts emerging and pressing issues and new forms of literature of Delhi by critics and scholars working on urban South Asia. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000059892
• Artikelnr.: 59632992

Autorenporträt

Alex Tickell is Senior Lecturer in English at the Open University, UK. He is a literary historian with a special interest in South Asian and South East Asian literary cultures, contemporary fiction, and conjunctions of writing and politics. He is associate editor of Wasafiri and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Ruvani Ranasinha is Reader in Postcolonial Literature at King's College, University of London, UK. She specialises in postcolonial literature and theory, especially relating to South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. She on the editorial board of the feminist digital humanities "Orlando" project and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Delhi: New writings on the megacity 1. Writing in from the periphery: Partition narratives from Rurban Delhi 2. No home for the disabled: The disabling metropolis of Delhi 3. Desire and disappearance in Delhi 4. "Capital" consciousness: Reading Rana Dasgupta 5. From Cybermohalla to Trickster City: Writing from the margins of Delhi 6. Resisting re-orientalism in representation: Aman Sethi writes of Delhi 7. Transporting metropolitanism: Road-mapping feminist solutions to sexual violence in Delhi 8. "Out of place" women: Exploring gendered spatiality in Delhi 9. Urban comix: Subcultures, infrastructures and "the right to the city" in Delhi