Postcolonial Urban Outcasts (eBook, PDF)

City Margins in South Asian Literature
Redaktion: Chakraborty, Madhurima; Al-Wazedi, Umme

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Produktbeschreibung

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 sociopolitical. Because South Asian cities are defined by the palimpsestic confluence of, among other things, colonial oppression, anticolonial nationalism, postcolonial governance, and twenty-first century transnational capital, they are sites where the many faces of empowerment and disempowerment are elaborated. The book considers fiction, non-fiction, comics, and genre fiction from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317195887
• Artikelnr.: 46882905

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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