Portada

THE POSTCOLONIAL CITY AND ITS SUBJECTS IBD

ROUTLEDGE
07 / 2014
9781138793767
Inglés

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.áVarma 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,áshe 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.

PVP
104,37