Extending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary
Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontents of the
South Asian city. The collection investigates how South Asian
literature and literature about South Asia attends to urban
margins, regardless of whether the definition of margin is spatial,
psychological, gendered, or sociopolitical. That cities are a site
of profound paradoxes is nowhere clearer than in South Asia, where
urban areas simultaneously represent both the frontiers of
globalization as well as the deeply troubling social and political
inequalities of the global south. Additionally, because South Asian
cities are defined by the palimpsestic confluence of, among other
things, colonial oppression, anticolonial nationalism, postcolonial
governance, and twenty-first century transnational capital, they
are sites where the many faces of empowerment and disempowerment
are elaborated. The volume brings together essays that emphasize
myriad critical approaches-geospatial, urban-theoretical,
diasporic, subaltern, and others. United in their critical empathy
for urban outcasts, the chapters respond to central questions such
as: What is the relationship between the politico-economic
narratives of globally emerging South Asian cities and the
dispossessed? How do South Asian cities stand in relationship to
the nation and, conversely, how might South Asians in diaspora
construct these cities within larger narratives of development,
globalization, or as sources of authentic ethnic identities? How is
the very skeleton-the space, the territory-of South Asian cities
marked with and by exclusionary politics? How do the aesthetic and
formal choices undertaken by writers determine the potential for
and limit to emancipation of urban outcasts from their oppressive
circumstances? Considering fiction, nonfiction, comics, and genre
fiction from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka; literature
from the twentieth and the twenty-first century; and w
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