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The Contemporary Novel and the City - Re-conceiving National and Narrative Form (Hardcover, New)
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Referring to a period - the twentieth century - of unprecedented
urban growth, culminating in a 'global village' that has taken a
decidedly urban turn, this book argues for and establishes the
deeply symbiotic relationship between the literary radicalism of
Joyce and Rushdie and the fact that they write about cities.
Joyce's literary influence on Rushdie is well established. The
strength of this project, however, is to put into conversation two
writers from colonial backgrounds, both in self-imposed 'exile'
from the cities of their birth but compulsively writing about them.
Enabled in the first instance by the formative influence of Joyce
on Rushdie, this comparative framework facilitates a deeper
understanding of the continuities as well as contrasts between a
fringe-First world colonial city and its Third world postcolonial
counterpart at the two ends of the twentieth century. The analysis
undertakes close textual reading in relation to the theoretical
co-ordinates of postcolonial and urban studies in order to draw out
the modes in which the city offers a point of entry into a dynamic
and novel politics of possibility, and the extent to which it does
so. Shot through with the multiplicities of class, race, religion,
and language as it is, the city emerges in this discussion as the
crucial and inevitable, albeit conflicted and incongruous, locus
for a postcolonial praxis. The book also draws upon a range of
fictional and theoretical secondary sources from authors including
T.S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, Viriginia Woolf, Charles Baudelaire
and Anita Desai, amongst others.
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