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United in their critical empathy for urban outcasts, the chapters respond to central questions such as: What is the relationship between the politico- economic narratives of globally emerging South Asian cities and the dispossessed? How do South Asian cities stand in relationship to the nation and, conversely, how might South Asians in diaspora construct these cities within larger narratives of development, globalization, or as sources of authentic ethnic identities? How is the very skeleton-the space, the territory-of South Asian cities marked with and by exclusionary politics? How do the aesthetic and formal choices undertaken by writers determine the potential for and limits to emancipation of urban outcasts from their oppressive circumstances? Considering fiction, nonfiction, comics, and genre fiction from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka literature from the twentieth and the twenty-first century and works that are Anglophone and those that are in translation, this book will be valuable to a range of disciplines. The volume brings together chapters that emphasize myriad critical approaches-geospatial, urban-theoretical, diasporic, subaltern, and others.
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Additionally, because South Asian cities are defined by the palimpsestic confluence of, among other things, colonial oppression, anticolonial nationalism, postcolonial governance, and twenty-first-century transnational capital, they are sites where the many faces of empowerment and disempowerment are elaborated. That cities are a site of profound paradoxes is nowhere clearer than in South Asia, where urban areas simultaneously represent both the frontiers of globalization as well as the deeply troubling social and political inequalities of the global south. The collection investigates how South Asian literature and literature about South Asia attends to urban margins, regardless of whether the definition of margin is spatial, psychological, gendered, or sociopolitical.
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PART IV: Forms of Urban Outcasting.ġ2 Carl Muller’s Palimpsestic Urban Elegy in Colombo: A Novel.ġ3 The Fiction of Anosh Irani: The Magic of a Traumatized Community.ġ4 New Capital? Representing Bangalore in Recent Crime Fiction.Įxtending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontents of the South Asian city. PART III: The Space of the Margins.ĩ Imag(in)ing the City: A Study of Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi.ġ0 Gendering Place and Possibility in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence and Kavery Nambisan’s A Town Like Ours.ġ1 Delhi at the Margins: Heterotopic Imagination, Bricolage, and Alternative Urbanity in Trickster City. PART II: The National, The Global, and the Diaspora.ĥ Unmoored: Passing, Slumming, and Return-Writing in New India.Ħ Lahore Lahore Hai: Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid’s City Fictions.ħ Between Aspiration and Imagination: Exploring Native Cosmopolitanism in Adib Khan’s Spiral Road and Mohammed Hanif’s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti.Ĩ Portrayal of a Dystopic Dhaka: On Diasporic Reproductions of Bangladeshi Urbanity.
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PART I: Urban Outcasts, Urban Subalterns.ġ Recasting the Outcast: Hyderabad and Hyderabadi Subjectivities in Two Literary Texts.Ģ The Margins of Postcolonial Urbanity: Reading Critical Irrealism in Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Fiction.ģ “Someone called India”: Urban Space and the Tribal Subject in Mahasweta Devi’s “Douloti the Bountiful”.Ĥ “Stuck at Pause”: Representations of the Comatose City in Delhi Calm.