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New Literatures of the Megacity

Alex Tickell, Ruvani Ranasinha

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English

Routledge
31 March 2020

Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Asian history

In this book, leading scholars working on urban South Asia chart new forms of literature about contemporary Delhi.

Incorporating original contributions by Delhi-based commentators and covering significant new themes and genres, it updates current critical understanding of how contemporary literature has registered the momentous economic and social forces reshaping India’s major cities. This timely volume responds not only to the contextual challenge of a Delhi transformed by economic liberalisation and commercial growth into a global megacity, but also to the emergent formal and generic changes through which this process has been monitored and critiqued in writing. The collection includes studies of the city as a disabling metropolis, as a space of marginal (electronic) text, as a zone of gendered spatiality and sexual violence, and as a terrain in which ‘urban villagers’ have been displaced by the growing city. It also provides close analyses of emerging genres such as urban comix, digital narratives, literary reportage, and city biography.

Delhi: New Literatures of the Megacity will be of interest to students and researchers in disciplines ranging from postcolonial and global literature to cultural studies, civic history, and South Asian and urban studies. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Edited by: Alex Tickell, Ruvani Ranasinha
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 417g
ISBN: 9780367363390
ISBN 10: 0367363399
Pages: 138
Publication Date: 31 March 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.