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The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay

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Titre

The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay

Sujet

ville postcoloniale, post-colonial city, littérature, culture urbaine, London, Londres, Nairobi, Bombay, Mumbai, twentieth century, twenty-first century, vingtième siècle, vingt-et-unième siècle, Varma Rashmi

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Abstract from the publisher :
 
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.
 
Rashmi Varma is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.
 

Créateur

Rashmi Varma

Éditeur

Routledge

Date

August 2011

Format

224

Type

Ouvrage