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Postcolonial Urban Outcasts

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City Margins in South Asian Literature

Postcolonial Urban Outcasts

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Postcolonial Urban Outcasts book

City Margins in South Asian Literature
Edited ByMadhurima Chakraborty, Umme Al-wazedi
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 14 October 2016
Pub. location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315559643
Pages 294 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315559643
SubjectsArea Studies, Language & Literature, Urban Studies
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Chakraborty, M. (Ed.), Al-wazedi, U. (Ed.). (2017). Postcolonial Urban Outcasts. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315559643

Extending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontents of the South Asian city. 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. 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. 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. The volume brings together essays that emphasize myriad critical approaches—geospatial, urban-theoretical, diasporic, subaltern, and others. 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 limit 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |18 pages

Introduction: Whose City?

ByMADHURIMA CHAKRABORTY

part |2 pages

PART I: Urban Outcasts, Urban Subalterns

chapter 1|18 pages

Recasting the Outcast: Hyderabad and Hyderabadi Subjectivities in Two Literary Texts

ByNAZIA AKHTAR

chapter 2|17 pages

The Margins of Postcolonial Urbanity: Reading Critical Irrealism in Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Fiction

BySOURIT BHATTACHARYA

chapter 3|16 pages

“Someone called India”: Urban Space and the Tribal Subject in Mahasweta Devi’s “Douloti the Bountiful”

ByJAY RAJIVA

chapter 4|21 pages

“Stuck at Pause”: Representations of the Comatose City in Delhi Calm

ByAMIT R. BAISHYA

part |2 pages

PART II: The National, The Global, and the Diaspora

chapter 5|18 pages

Unmoored: Passing, Slumming, and Return-Writing in New India

ByRAGINI THAROOR SRINIVASAN

chapter 6|18 pages

Lahore Lahore Hai: Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid’s City Fictions

ByCLAIRE CHAMBERS

chapter 7|18 pages

Between Aspiration and Imagination: Exploring Native Cosmopolitanism in Adib Khan’s Spiral Road and Mohammed Hanif’s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

ByPAYEL CHATTOPADHYAY MUKHERJEE, ARNAPURNA RATH,

chapter 8|18 pages

Portrayal of a Dystopic Dhaka: On Diasporic Reproductions of Bangladeshi Urbanity

ByMASWOOD AKHTER

part |2 pages

PART III: The Space of the Margins

chapter 9|18 pages

Imag(in)ing the City: A Study of Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi

ByNISHAT HAIDER

chapter 10|17 pages

Gendering Place and Possibility in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence and Kavery Nambisan’s A Town Like Ours

ByLAUREN J. LACEY, JOY E. OCHS

chapter 11|17 pages

Delhi at the Margins:Heterotopic Imagination, Bricolage, and Alternative Urbanity in Trickster City

BySANJUKTA PODDAR

part |2 pages

PART IV: Forms of Urban Outcasting

chapter 12|16 pages

Carl Muller’s Palimpsestic Urban Elegy in Colombo: A Novel

ByMARYSE JAYASURIYA

chapter 13|18 pages

The Fiction of Anosh Irani: The Magic of a Traumatized Community

ByKELLY A. MINERVA

chapter 14|16 pages

New Capital? Representing Bangalore in Recent Crime Fiction

ByANNA GUTTMAN
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