This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and
cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution
of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both
historical and contemporary debates on urbanism through the filter
of postcolonial fictions and the cultural fields surrounding and
containing them. In particular, she presents a representational
history of London, Nairobi and Bombay in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries and engages three key theoretical
frameworks-the city within postcolonial theory and culture (its
troubled salience in the construction of postcolonial public
spheres and identities, from local, rural, ethnic/"tribal", and
regional to "national", cosmopolitan and transnational subjects and
spaces); postcolonial fictions as constituting a new world literary
space and as a site of the articulation of contending narratives of
urban space, global culture and postcolonial development; and
postcolonial feminist citizenship as a universal political project
challenging current neo-liberal and post neo-liberal contractions
and eviscerations of public spaces and rights.
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