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Author:   Madhurima Chakraborty ,  Umme Al-wazedi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.421kg
ISBN:  

9780367878771

ISBN 10:   0367878771
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   10 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Table of Contents Introduction: Whose City? Madhurima Chakraborty Part I: Urban Outcasts, Urban Subalterns 1. Recasting the Outcast: Hyderabadi Subjectivities in Two Literary Texts Nazia Akhtar 2. The Margins of Postcolonial Urbanity: Reading Critical Irrealism in Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Fiction Sourit Bhattacharya 3. ""Someone called India"": Urban Space and the Tribal Subject in Mahasweta Devi’s ""Douloti the Bountiful"" Jay Rajiva 4. ""Stuck at Pause"": Representations of the Comatose City in Delhi Calm Amit Baishya Part II: The National, The Global, and the Diaspora 5. Unmoored: Passing, Slumming, and Return-Writing in New India Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan 6. Lahore, Lahore Hai: Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid’s City Fictions Claire Chambers 7. Between Aspiration and Imagination: Exploring Native-Cosmopolitanism in Adib Khan’s Spiral Road and Mohammad Hanif’s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti Payel Chattopadhyay Mukherjee, Arnapurna Rath and Koshy Tharakan 8. Portrayal of a Dystopic Dhaka: On Diaspora Reproductions of Bangladeshi Urbanity Maswood Akhter Part III: The Space of the Margins 9. Imag(in)ing the city: A Study of Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi Nishat Haider 10. Gendering Place and Possibility in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence and Kavery Nambisan’s A Town Like Ours Lauren J. Lacey and Joy E. Ochs 11. Delhi at the Margins: Heterotopic Imagination, Bricolage, and Alternative Urbanity in Trickster City Sanjukta Poddar Part IV: Forms of Urban Outcasting 12. Carl Muller’s Palimpse"

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Madhurima Chakraborty is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literature in the Department of English, Columbia College Chicago, USA. Umme Al-wazedi is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature in the Department of English and Co-Program Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Augustana College, USA.

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