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The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay - Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures Varma, Rashmi (Warwick University, UK) 1st edition
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The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay - Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
Varma, Rashmi (Warwick University, UK)
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.
224 pages, 2 Halftones, color; 1 Halftones, black and white
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 5, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415880398 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 244 |
| Dimensions | 232 × 158 × 19 mm · 470 g |
| Language | English |
