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Delhi: New Literatures of the Megacity (Hardcover)
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Delhi: New Literatures of the Megacity (Hardcover)
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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.
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