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The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay (Routledge Research in Post Colonial Literatures, 34, Band 34) - Softcover

Buch 28 von 80: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Varma, Rashmi

 
9781138793767: The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay (Routledge Research in Post Colonial Literatures, 34, Band 34)
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ISBN 10: 1138793760 ISBN 13: 9781138793767
Verlag: Routledge, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rashmi Varma is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the co-editor (with Warhol, et al.) of Women's Worlds: The McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women's Literature in English (2008).

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Routledge
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2014
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Englisch
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1138793760
ISBN 13 
9781138793767
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244
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