Postcolonial Urban Outcasts : City Margins in South Asian Literature.

Postcolonial Urban Outcasts : City Margins in South Asian Literature.

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 sp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chakraborty, Madhurima
Other Authors: Al-wazedi, Umme
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2016.
Series:Routledge research in postcolonial literatures.
Subjects:
South Asian literature (English) > History and criticism.
South Asian literature > History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Outcasts in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Cities and towns in literature
Marginality, Social, in literature
Outcasts in literature
Postcolonialism in literature
South Asian literature
South Asian literature (English)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Whose City?
  • PART I: Urban Outcasts, Urban Subalterns
  • 1 Recasting the Outcast: Hyderabad and Hyderabadi Subjectivities in Two Literary Texts
  • 2 The Margins of Postcolonial Urbanity: Reading Critical Irrealism in Nabarun Bhattacharya's Fiction
  • 3 "Someone called India": Urban Space and the Tribal Subject in Mahasweta Devi's "Douloti the Bountiful"
  • 4 "Stuck at Pause": Representations of the Comatose City in Delhi Calm
  • PART II: The National, The Global, and the Diaspora
  • 5 Unmoored: Passing, Slumming, and Return-Writing in New India
  • 6 Lahore Lahore Hai: Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid's City Fictions
  • 7 Between Aspiration and Imagination: Exploring Native Cosmopolitanism in Adib Khan's Spiral Road and Mohammed Hanif's Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
  • 8 Portrayal of a Dystopic Dhaka: On Diasporic Reproductions of Bangladeshi Urbanity
  • PART III: The Space of the Margins
  • 9 Imag(in)ing the City: A Study of Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi
  • 10 Gendering Place and Possibility in Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence and Kavery Nambisan's A Town Like Ours
  • 11 Delhi at the Margins: Heterotopic Imagination, Bricolage, and Alternative Urbanity in Trickster City
  • PART IV: Forms of Urban Outcasting
  • 12 Carl Muller's Palimpsestic Urban Elegy in Colombo: A Novel
  • 13 The Fiction of Anosh Irani: The Magic of a Traumatized Community
  • 14 New Capital? Representing Bangalore in Recent Crime Fiction
  • List of Contributors
  • Index.

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