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The City Speaks - Urban Spaces in Indian Literature (Hardcover)
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The City Speaks - Urban Spaces in Indian Literature (Hardcover)
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This book studies the significance and representation of the 'city'
in the writings of Indian poets, graphic novelists, and dramatists.
It demonstrates how cities give birth to social images,
perspectives, and complexities, and explores the ways in which
cities and the characters in Indian literature coexist to form a
larger literary framework of interpretations. Drawing on the
theoretical concepts of Western urban thinkers such as Henri
Lefebvre, Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, Edward Soja, David Harvey,
and Diane Levy, as well as South Asian thinkers such as Ashis
Nandy, Arjun Appadurai, Vinay Lal, and Ravi Sundaram, the book
projects against a seemingly monolithic and homogenous Western
qualification of urban literatures and offers a truly unique and
contentious presentation of Indian literature. Unfolding the
urban-literary landscape of India, the volume lays the groundwork
for an urban studies approach to Indian literature. It will be of
great interest to scholars and students of literature, especially
Indian writing in English, urban studies, and South Asian studies.
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