1st Edition
Delhi: New Literatures of the Megacity
Introduction – Delhi: New writings on the megacity
Alex Tickell and Ruvani Ranasinha
1. Writing in from the periphery: Partition narratives from Rurban Delhi
Bodh Prakash
2. No home for the disabled: The disabling metropolis of Delhi
Someshwar Sati
3. Desire and disappearance in Delhi
Stuti Khanna
4. "Capital" consciousness: Reading Rana Dasgupta
C. S. Bhagya and G. J. V. Prasad
5. From Cybermohalla to Trickster City: Writing from the margins of Delhi
Lipi Biswas Sen
6. Resisting re-orientalism in representation: Aman Sethi writes of Delhi
Lisa Lau
7. Transporting metropolitanism: Road-mapping feminist solutions to sexual violence in Delhi
Kanika Batra
8. "Out of place" women: Exploring gendered spatiality in Delhi
Rachna Sethi
9. Urban comix: Subcultures, infrastructures and "the right to the city" in Delhi
Dominic Davies
Biography
Alex Tickell is Senior Lecturer in English at the Open University, UK. He is a literary historian with a special interest in South Asian and South East Asian literary cultures, contemporary fiction, and conjunctions of writing and politics. He is associate editor of Wasafiri and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
Ruvani Ranasinha is Reader in Postcolonial Literature at King’s College, University of London, UK. She specialises in postcolonial literature and theory, especially relating to South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. She on the editorial board of the feminist digital humanities "Orlando" project and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
