The Postcolonial City and its Subjects

London, Nairobi, Bombay

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Rashmi Varma

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Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

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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.

Author Biography:

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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August 5th, 2011

Author

Rashmi Varma

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

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2 Halftones, color; 1 Halftones, black and white

Pages

244

Series

Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

ISBN-13

9780415880398

Product ID

9978676

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