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



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Autore: Varma Rashmi Visualizza persona
Titolo: The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay / / Rashmi Varma Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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
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Serie: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 34.