The Postcolonial City And Its Subjects (Routledge Research In Postcolonial Literatures)

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. 9781138793767 1138793760 0 Cities and towns in literature NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=nZsVngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Rashmi Varma
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Jul 17, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 244 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1138793760
• • ISBN-13: 9781138793767