The Postcolonial City and its Subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay Paperback / softback
by Rashmi Varma
Part of the Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures series
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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.
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- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:17/07/2014
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:244 pages, 1 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:17/07/2014
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- ISBN:9781138793767