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The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay
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Varma, Rashmi (2012) The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay. Routledge research in postcolonial literatures (No.34). New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415880398
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Abstract
This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and contemporary debates on urbanism through the filter of postcolonial fictions and the cultural fields surrounding and containing them. In particular, she presents a representational history of London, Nairobi and Bombay in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and engages three key theoretical frameworks--the city within postcolonial theory and culture (its troubled salience in the construction of postcolonial public spheres and identities, from local, rural, ethnic/"tribal", and regional to "national", cosmopolitan and transnational subjects and spaces); postcolonial fictions as constituting a new world literary space and as a site of the articulation of contending narratives of urban space, global culture and postcolonial development; and postcolonial feminist citizenship as a universal political project challenging current neo-liberal and post neo-liberal contractions and eviscerations of public spaces and rights
Item Type: | Book | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Series Name: | Routledge research in postcolonial literatures | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
Place of Publication: | New York | ||||
ISBN: | 9780415880398 | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Number: | No.34 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 224 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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