Adib Khan
Ahmed Ali
Ali's Twilight
Ali’s Twilight
Anosh Irani
Asaf Jahi Dynasty
Asian Literature
Bangladeshi Literature
Bapsi Sidhwa
Carl Muller
Category=DSB
Category=JBSD
Category=JP
Delhi Calm
Diasporic Returnees
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
gendered urban spaces
Global South
Heterotopic Imagination
Hyderabadi Muslims
Indian Literature
JVP Insurrection
Kavery Nambisan
literary urbanism
Literature
Magical Realism
Mahasweta Devi
Main Character
Modern Indian City
Mohammad Hanif
Mohsin Hamid
Nabarun Bhattacharya
Native Cosmopolitan
Postcolonial
Postcolonial City
postcolonial city narratives analysis
Postcolonial Literature
Postcolonial Studies
Postcolonial Urban
Postcolonial Urban Outcasts
Research
Seasonal Adjustments
Shashi Deshpande
South Asia
South Asian Cities
South Asian diaspora
South Asian Literature
spatial exclusion
Spatiality
Spiral Road
subaltern studies
Tamil Nadu
urban marginality
Urban Outcasting
Urban Poor
Urban Studies
Urban Subalterns
Vishwajyoti Ghosh
White Tiger
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367878771
- Weight: 421g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Extending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontents of the South Asian city. The collection 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. That cities are a site of profound paradoxes is nowhere clearer than in South Asia, where urban areas simultaneously represent both the frontiers of globalization as well as the deeply troubling social and political inequalities of the global south. Additionally, 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 volume brings together essays that emphasize myriad critical approaches—geospatial, urban-theoretical, diasporic, subaltern, and others. United in their critical empathy for urban outcasts, the chapters respond to central questions such as: What is the relationship between the politico-economic narratives of globally emerging South Asian cities and the dispossessed? How do South Asian cities stand in relationship to the nation and, conversely, how might South Asians in diaspora construct these cities within larger narratives of development, globalization, or as sources of authentic ethnic identities? How is the very skeleton—the space, the territory—of South Asian cities marked with and by exclusionary politics? How do the aesthetic and formal choices undertaken by writers determine the potential for and limit to emancipation of urban outcasts from their oppressive circumstances? Considering fiction, nonfiction, comics, and genre fiction from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka; literature from the twentieth and the twenty-first century; and w
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.
