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The City Speaks

Urban Spaces in Indian Literature
 
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Publisher: Routledge India
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Short description:

This book studies the significance and representation of the ?city? in the writings of Indian poets, graphic novelists, and dramatists.

Long description:

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.

Table of Contents:

Foreword: From Spatial Experience to Experienced Space: Representations, Recollections and Reproductions of the Urban Spaces in Indian Literature


Mustafa Zeki Çirakli


 


Introduction: Writing Cities: Appropriating the Urban in Indian Literatures


Subashish Bhattacharjee and Goutam Karmakar


 


Part 1: Fictions of the ?Cities at the Centre?


1. City?s Deity: Exploring the Urban and Sacred Space in Anita Desai?s Voices and the City and Journey to Ithaca


Deeptangshu Das


 


2. Khushwant Singh?s Delhi: A Multi-Layered Projection of an Anthropomorphised City


Sarani Ghosal Mondal


 


3. Diasporic Return to Calcutta in Mukherjee?s The Tiger?s Daughter and Days and Nights in Calcutta


Rima Bhattacharya


 


4. Stories by the Sea: Memories and Space in Amit Chaudhuri?s Friend of My Youth


Sayan Aich Bhowmik


 


5. ??not exactly fear, but unease, an apprehension?: flânerie and the tactics of survival in Baumgartner?s Bombay


Rupayan Mukherjee


 


6. Jeet Thayil?s Narcopolis: The Networked City


Amrutha Kunapalli


 


7. At Home in City (?): Reading the Destabilising New City in Raj Kamal Jha?s She Will Build Him a City


Kuheli Singha


 


8. The Radical, the Bourgeois and the Alienated in the City in Neel Mukherjee?s The Lives of Others


Nilanjan Chakraborty


 


9. Discovering New Cities and Their Underbellies within the Old: Seeing the Periphery of Kolkata through the Lens of Kunal Basu?s Kalkatta


Avijit Das and Shri Krishan Rai


 


10. Palimpsestic Jungle/Jumble: Visceral Urbanism in Rajat Chaudhuri?s Hotel Calcutta


Subhadeep Paul


 


11. Mumbai Queered: Perils and Pleasures of the Sexual Metropolis in Murder in Mahim


Somdatta Bhattacharya


 


12. ?Botanising on the Asphalt?: Towards an alternate cityscape of Delhi and its urbane citizenry in Ravish Kumar?s Ishq Mein Shahar Hona


Rajarshi Roy


 


Part 2: Fictions from the Fringes


13. Rohinton Mistry?s city by the sea: a place to call home?


Natacha Lasorak


 


14. Urban Spaces and Fading Culture in Mamang Dai?s Fictions: A Postmodern Reading of City Life


Debajyoti Biswas


 


15. Evolution of Heterotopic Space: Unearthing the Toxic Cityscape in Indra Sinha?s Animal?s People


Somasree Sarkar and Neha Kumari


 


16. Cosmopolitanism and Trade Relations: Analysing the port city of Muziris through Sethumadhavan?s The Saga of Muziris


Maya Vinai and Revathy Hemachandran


 


Part 3: Staging the City


17. ?Cities Imprison and Kill the Blood?: Exploring the Politics of the Representation of the Country and the City in Rabindranath Tagore?s Red Oleanders


Arnab Chatterjee


 


18. Girish Karnad?s Consideration of ?Urban Spaces? for His Plays


Jolly Das


 


19. A Tale of Two Cities: Showcasing the Façade of the Indian Metropolis in Manjula Padmanabhan?s Lights Out and Harvest


Praggnaparamita Biswas


 


20. City, Space & Spectacle: Parsi Theatre?s Indar Sabha


Sib Sankar Majumdar


 


Part 4: Poetics of the Cities


21. Imagery of Revolt and Withdrawal: The City-Country Interface in the Poetry of Keki N. Daruwalla and Adil Jussawalla


Baisali Hui


 


22. ?How can she feel at home in so many places??: City, home, and diasporic subjectivity in Sujata Bhatt?s poetry


Joyjit Ghosh


 


23. When a City Speaks: Tracing the voices and visions of Mumbai in Gopal Lahiri and Sunil Sharma?s Cities: Two Perspectives


Goutam Karmakar


 


Part 5: The City in Itself


24. Liberating the Cursed City: Looking through Jiddu Krishnamurti and Sisirkumar Ghose


Goutam Ghosal


 


25. Journey from Alienation to Integration: Travel, Urban Space, and Chronotope in Bharati Mukherjee?s Days and Nights in Calcutta


Basundhara Chakraborty


 


26. Psychogeographies: Urban Space and Situationism in Suketu Mehta?s Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found


Ujjwal Kr. Panda