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Title Postcolonial urban outcasts : city margins in South Asian literature / edited by Madhurima Chakraborty and Umme Al-wazedi.
Publisher New York : Routledge, 2017.

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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 9  English W698 CHA  
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Description viii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9781138677234 hardback : alkaline paper
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Section one: Urban outcasts, urban subalterns. 1. Recasting the outcasts: new/old urban subjectivities in three Hyderabadi texts / Nazia Akhtar. 2. Macabre flights and critical irrealism: subalterns and outcasts in Nabarun Bhattacharya's fiction / Sourit Bhattacharya. 3. "Someone called India": urban trauma and the tribal body of Mahasweta Devi's "Douloti the bountiful" / Jay Rajiva . 4. "Stuck at pause": representations of the comatose city in Vishwajyoti Ghosh's Delhi calm / Amit Baishya -- Section two: The national, the global, and the diaspora. 5. Unmoored: passing, slumming, and return-writing in New India / Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan. 6. Lahore, Lahore aye: Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid's city fictions / Claire Chambers. 7. Between aspiration and imagination: exploring native-cosmopolitanism in Adib Khan's Spiral road and Mohammad Hanif's Our lady of Alice Bhatti / Payel Chattopadhyay Mukherjee, Arnapurna Rath and Koshy Tharakan. 8. Portrayal of a dystopic dhaka: on Diaspora reproductions of Bangladeshi urbanity / Maswood Akhter -- Section three: The space of the margins. 9. Imag(in)ing the city: a study of Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi / Nishat Haider. 10. Gendering Place and Possibility in Shashi Deshpande's That long silence and Kavery Nambisan's A town Like Ours / Lauren J. Lacey and Joy E. Ochs. 11. Delhi at the margins: heterotopic imagination and alternative urbanity in trickster city / Sanjukta Poddar -- Section four: Forms of urban outcasting . 2. "Oh, oh Colombo": Carl Muller's Palimpsestic urban elegy in Colombo: a novel / Maryse Jayasuriya. 13. The fiction of Anosh Irani: the magic of a traumatized community / Kelly A. Minerva. 14. New capital? representing Bangalore in recent crime fiction / Anna Guttman.
Series Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 55.
Library Class English W698
Subject South Asian literature (English) -- History and criticism.
South Asian literature -- History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Outcasts in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Other Author Chakraborty, Madhurima, editor.
Al-wazedi, Umme, editor.
Alt Title City margins in South Asian literature

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