Re-inventing the postcolonial (in the) metropolis /
Re-inventing the postcolonial (in the) metropolis /
Reinventing the postcolonial (in the) metropolis
edited by Cecile Sandten, Annika Bauer.
- 1 online resource (xxi, 440 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Cross/cultures ; volume 188 ASNEL papers, volume 20 1385-2981 ; .
- Cross/cultures ; 188. ASNEL papers ; 20. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Citizenship and (alternative) market economies in the postcolonial metropolis -- Political change and contested spaces in the African and South African metropolis -- The Asian and South Asian metropolises on the move -- Reframing the Australian/Canadian (settler) metropolis -- Senses, sounds, and lanuages in the postcolonial metropolis.
"The notion of the postcolonial metropolis has gained prominence in the last two decades both within and beyond postcolonial studies. Disciplines such as sociology and urban studies, however, have tended to focus on the economic inequalities, class disparities, and other structural and formative aspects of the postcolonial metropolises that are specific to Western conceptions of the city at large. It is only recently that the depiction of postcolonial metropolises has been addressed in the writings of Suketu Mehta, Chris Abani, Amit Chaudhuri, Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Helon Habila, Sefi Atta, and Zakes Mda, among others. Most of these works probe the urban specifics and physical and cultural topographies of postcolonial cities while highlighting their agential capacity to defy, appropriate, and abrogate the superimposition of theories of Western modernity and urbanism. These ASNEL Papers are all concerned with the idea of the postcolonial (in the) metropolis from various disciplinary viewpoints, as drawn from a great range of cityscapes (spread out over five continents)."--
9789004328761 (electronic bk.) 9004328769 (electronic bk.)
10.1163/9789004328761
980097 MIL
2016952180
Postcolonialism.
Metropolitan areas.
Postcolonialisme.
postcolonialism.
LITERARY CRITICISM--General.
TRAVEL--Special Interest--Literary.
Metropolitan areas.
Postcolonialism.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN56.P555 / R4 2016eb
800
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Citizenship and (alternative) market economies in the postcolonial metropolis -- Political change and contested spaces in the African and South African metropolis -- The Asian and South Asian metropolises on the move -- Reframing the Australian/Canadian (settler) metropolis -- Senses, sounds, and lanuages in the postcolonial metropolis.
"The notion of the postcolonial metropolis has gained prominence in the last two decades both within and beyond postcolonial studies. Disciplines such as sociology and urban studies, however, have tended to focus on the economic inequalities, class disparities, and other structural and formative aspects of the postcolonial metropolises that are specific to Western conceptions of the city at large. It is only recently that the depiction of postcolonial metropolises has been addressed in the writings of Suketu Mehta, Chris Abani, Amit Chaudhuri, Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Helon Habila, Sefi Atta, and Zakes Mda, among others. Most of these works probe the urban specifics and physical and cultural topographies of postcolonial cities while highlighting their agential capacity to defy, appropriate, and abrogate the superimposition of theories of Western modernity and urbanism. These ASNEL Papers are all concerned with the idea of the postcolonial (in the) metropolis from various disciplinary viewpoints, as drawn from a great range of cityscapes (spread out over five continents)."--
9789004328761 (electronic bk.) 9004328769 (electronic bk.)
10.1163/9789004328761
980097 MIL
2016952180
Postcolonialism.
Metropolitan areas.
Postcolonialisme.
postcolonialism.
LITERARY CRITICISM--General.
TRAVEL--Special Interest--Literary.
Metropolitan areas.
Postcolonialism.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN56.P555 / R4 2016eb
800