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The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay: 34 (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures) - Tapa dura

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Varma, Rashmi

 
9780415880398: The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay: 34 (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)
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ISBN 10: 0415880394 ISBN 13: 9780415880398
Editorial: Routledge, 2011

Sinopsis

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 construction of postcolonial public spheres and identities, from local, rural, ethnic/"tribal", and regional to "national", cosmopolitan and transnational subjects and spaces); postcolonial fictions as constituting a new world literary space and as a site of the articulation of contending narratives of urban space, global culture and postcolonial development; and postcolonial feminist citizenship as a universal political project challenging current neo-liberal and post neo-liberal contractions and eviscerations of public spaces and rights.

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Acerca del autor

Rashmi Varma is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the co-editor (with Warhol, et al.) of Women’s Worlds: The McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women’s Literature in English (2008).

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415880394
ISBN 13 
9780415880398
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
244
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