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UNINA9911103749703321 |
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Titolo |
Postcolonial urban outcasts : city margins in South Asian literature / / edited by Madhurima Chakraborty and Umme Al-wazedi |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-55964-1 |
1-317-19587-6 |
1-317-19588-4 |
9781315559643 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (294 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures ; ; 55 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Al-wazediUmme |
ChakrabortyMadhurima |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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South Asian literature (English) - History and criticism |
South Asian literature - History and criticism |
Cities and towns in literature |
Marginality, Social, in literature |
Outcasts in literature |
Postcolonialism in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Urban outcasts, urban subalterns -- pt. 2. The national, the global, and the diaspora -- pt. 3. The space of the margins -- pt. 4. Forms of urban outcasting. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Extending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontents of the South Asian city. It investigates how South Asian literature and literature about South Asia attends to urban margins, regardless of whether the definition of margin is spatial, psychological, gendered, or sociopolitical. Because South Asian cities are defined by the palimpsestic confluence of, among other things, colonial oppression, anticolonial nationalism, postcolonial governance, and twenty-first century transnational capital, they are sites where the many faces of empowerment and disempowerment are elaborated. The book |
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considers fiction, non-fiction, comics, and genre fiction from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. |
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