The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay / / Rashmi Varma
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 809/.93321732 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cities and towns in literature |
| Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism | |
| Postcolonialism in literature | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The postcolonial city and its subjects |
| ISBN: | 1-136-80402-1 |
| 1-283-44292-2 | |
| 9786613442925 | |
| 0-203-82781-3 | |
| 1-136-80403-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779051003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 34.