02899oam 2200697I 450 991077905100332120230802004726.01-136-80402-11-283-44292-297866134429250-203-82781-31-136-80403-X10.4324/9780203827819 (CKB)2550000000089473(EBL)958733(OCoLC)798530285(SSID)ssj0000600913(PQKBManifestationID)11350555(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600913(PQKBWorkID)10601167(PQKB)10403745(MiAaPQ)EBC958733(Au-PeEL)EBL958733(CaPaEBR)ebr10531764(CaONFJC)MIL344292(OCoLC)782916589(EXLCZ)99255000000008947320180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe postcolonial city and its subjects London, Nairobi, Bombay /Rashmi VarmaNew York :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (239 p.)Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;34Description based upon print version of record.1-138-79376-0 0-415-88039-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Eccentric routes -- Different belongings -- Uncivil lines -- Situated solidarities.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 consRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures ;34.Cities and towns in literatureLiterature, Modern20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature, Modern21st centuryHistory and criticismPostcolonialism in literatureCities and towns in literature.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.Postcolonialism in literature.809/.93321732Varma Rashmi.1550274MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779051003321The postcolonial city and its subjects3808941UNINA