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Employing Salman Rushdie as a guide to a historicized contemporary,
this study offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the plurality
of cities along his transnational trajectory. It engages with the
geographically identifiable Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad, London or
New York; the phantasmal, politically coded, Jahilia or Mildendo,
the inspirational yet flawed urban precedents of Fatehpur Sikri or
Renaissance Florence and the ways these cities generate, interact
with and transform each other. In contrast with those urban studies
which remain in place, this book offers a new understanding of
cities wider and constantly shifting interconnections with other
cities and places in an unstable, unevenly globalized and
dangerously or provocatively local world. The book situates
Rushdies cities in relation to developments in Bombay, Karachi,
Islamabad and London writing and focuses on novels which shuttle
between cities. Parashkevova attends to cities cultural and
historical contexts, to many of Rushdies numerous literary,
cinematic and artistic influences and to diverse events, processes
and paradigms earthquakes, translations, seductions that
politically re-position cities and citizens on the contemporary
urban map.
Employing Salman Rushdie as a guide to a historicized contemporary,
this study offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the plurality
of cities along his transnational trajectory. It engages with the
geographically identifiable Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad, London or
New York; the phantasmal, politically coded, Jahilia or Mildendo,
the inspirational yet flawed urban precedents of Fatehpur Sikri or
Renaissance Florence and the ways these cities generate, interact
with and transform each other. The book situates Rushdie's cities
in relation to developments in Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad and
London writing and focuses on novels which shuttle between cities.
Parashkevova attends to cities' cultural and historical contexts,
to many of Rushdie's numerous literary, cinematic and artistic
influences and to diverse events, processes and paradigms -
earthquakes, translations, seductions - that politically
re-position cities and citizens on the contemporary urban map.
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