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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779051003321

Autore

Varma Rashmi

Titolo

The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay / / Rashmi Varma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-80402-1

1-283-44292-2

9786613442925

0-203-82781-3

1-136-80403-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 34

Disciplina

809/.93321732

Soggetti

Cities and towns in literature

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism

Postcolonialism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Eccentric routes -- Different belongings -- Uncivil lines -- Situated solidarities.

Sommario/riassunto

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 cons