The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay
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The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay
（Routledge research in postcolonial literatures, 34）
Routledge, 2012
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-220) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Eccentric Routes 2. Different Belongings 3. (Un)Civil Lines 4. Conclusion: Situated Solidarities
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