1st Edition
Postcolonial Indian City-Literature Policy, Politics and Evolution
By Dibyakusum Ray
Copyright 2022
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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How is the city represented through literature from the post-colonies? This book searches for an answer to this question, by keeping its focus on India—from after Independence to the millennia. How does the urban space and the literature depicting it form a dialogue within? How have Indian cities grown in the past six decades, as well as the literature focused on it? How does the city-lit depart... Read more
Introduction
Chapter I – The Rejecting: Emergence of the Urban Literature during the 1930-40s
Chapter II—The Realist: Nation Building, Social Realism and the Urban Grind of the 1950-60
Chapter III—The Belligerent: Emergency, Rebellion and the 1970s
Chapter IV—The Neoliberal: Commercial City, Diaspora and the (G)local, 1980-90
Chapter V—The Resistive: Millennial Urban and Resisting the Capital
Conclusion
Biography
Dibyakusum Ray teaches English, Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, Punjab, India.
