Delhi: New Literatures of the Megacity

ISBN-13: 9780367363390 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 138 str.

Alex Tickell; Ruvani Ranasinha

Opis

This book charts emerging and pressing issues and new forms of literature of Delhi by critics and scholars working on urban South Asia. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Spis treści

Introduction – Delhi: New writings on the megacity  1. Writing in from the periphery: Partition narratives from Rurban Delhi  2. No home for the disabled: The disabling metropolis of Delhi  3. Desire and disappearance in Delhi  4. "Capital" consciousness: Reading Rana Dasgupta  5. From Cybermohalla to Trickster City: Writing from the margins of Delhi  6. Resisting re-orientalism in representation: Aman Sethi writes of Delhi  7. Transporting metropolitanism: Road-mapping feminist solutions to sexual violence in Delhi  8. "Out of place" women: Exploring gendered spatiality in Delhi  9. Urban comix: Subcultures, infrastructures and "the right to the city" in Delhi