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The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay

The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay

Varma, Rashmi

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures, Book 34

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0415880394
ISBN13: 9780415880398
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 5 2011
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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