ABSTRACT
The feeling of unsettlement and disorientation constitutes the core of modern urban experience. A city that is constantly shape-shifting can destabilise one’s sense of place and belongingness. Is it possible to be at home in such a city or are home and city mutually exclusive experiences? Moreover, who can claim the right to such a city? In this chapter, I attempt to address these issues through my reading of the fast-morphing New City in Raj Kamal Jha’s 2015 novel She Will Build Him a City, which, as a hostile space, shatters the characters’ search for any stable sense of belongingness and thus problematises their right to the city.
