1st Edition
The Postcolonial City and its Subjects London, Nairobi, Bombay
By Rashmi Varma
Copyright 2012
244 Pages
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Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
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Routledge
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This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma 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, she presents a representational... Read more
Introduction 1. Eccentric Routes 2. Different Belongings 3. (Un)Civil Lines 4. Conclusion: Situated Solidarities
Biography
Rashmi Varma is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the co-editor (with Warhol, et al.) of Women’s Worlds: The McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women’s Literature in English (2008).
