Re-inventing the postcolonial (in the) metropolis / edited by Cecile Sandten ; Annika Bauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sandten, Cecile, 1966- editor.

Bauer, Annika, editor.

Thea Marie Garfield Fund.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; 188.

ASNEL papers ; 20.

Cross/Cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; volume 188

ASNEL Papers ; volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism in literature.

Cities and towns in literature.

Urbanization in literature.

Physical Description:

xxi, 440 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2016]

Summary:

The notion of the postcolonial metropolis has gained prominence in the last two decades both within and beyond postcolonial studies. Disciplines such as sociology and urban studies, however, have tended to focus on the economic inequalities, class disparities, and other structural and formative aspects of the postcolonial metropolises that are specific to Western conceptions of the city at large. It is only recently that the depiction of postcolonial metropolises has been addressed in the writings of Suketu Mehta, Chris Abani, Amit Chaudhuri, Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Helon Habila, Sefi Atta, and Zakes Mda, among others. Most of these works probe the urban specifics and physical and cultural topographies of postcolonial cities while highlighting their agential capacity to defy, appropriate, and abrogate the superimposition of theories of Western modernity and urbanism. These ASNEL Papers are all concerned with the idea of the postcolonial (in the) metropolis from various disciplinary viewpoints, as drawn from a great range of cityscapes (spread out over five continents).

Contents:

Citizenship and (Alternative) Market Economies in the Postcolonial Metropolis

The Economics of Urban Development for the Postcolonial Poor / Melissa Kennedy Kennedy, Melissa 3

Post-Coloniality, Poetry, and Debt / Enda Duffy Duffy, Enda 17

Equivocal Identity-Politics in Multi-Cultural London / David Tavares Tavares, David, Marc Brosseau Brosseau, Marc 33

Political Change and Contested Spaces in the African and South African Metropolis

Tracing the Rural in the Urban: Re-Reading Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow through Brooding Clouds / Annika McPherson McPherson, Annika 57

The Representation of Place in Three Post-Apartheid South African Novels / Michael Wessels Wessels, Michael 71

'Welcome to Johannesburg': Melancholia and Fragmentation in Kgebetli Moele's Room / Danyela Demir Demir, Danyela 87

Angels in South Africa? Queer Urbanity in K. Sello Duiker's The Quiet Violence of Dreams and Tony Kushner's Angels in America / Verena Jain-Warden Jain-Warden, Verena 101

The Thrust of the City: Penis Fixation in Jude Dibia's Blackbird / Chris Dunton Dunton, Chris 115

The City, Hyperculturality, and Human Rights in Contemporary African Women's Writing / Chielozona Eze Eze, Chielozona 129

The Asian and South Asian Metropolises on the Move

Utopian Sights: Re-Inventing the Asian Metropolis / Bill Ashcroft Ashcroft, Bill 145

A City on the Move: Routing Urban Spaces.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Thea Marie Garfield Fund.

ISBN:

9789004322851

900432285X

OCLC:

961212473

Publisher Number:

99969789107