The Postcolonial City and its Subjects - Couverture rigide

Varma, Rashmi

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415880394 ISBN 13 : 9780415880398

Editeur : Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415880394
• ISBN 13: 9780415880398
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 244
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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