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UNINA9910816400103321 |
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Autore |
Varma Rashmi |
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Titolo |
The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay / / Rashmi Varma |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-80402-1 |
1-283-44292-2 |
9786613442925 |
0-203-82781-3 |
1-136-80403-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 34 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cities and towns in literature |
Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism |
Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism |
Postcolonialism in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Eccentric routes -- Different belongings -- Uncivil lines -- Situated solidarities. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 cons |
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