Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis write by Cecile Sandten. This book was released on 2016-09-27. Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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). The essays explore, on the one hand, ideas of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation, and, on the other, the possibility of transforming, reinventing and reconfigurating the ‘postcolonial condition’ in and through literary texts and visual narratives. In this context, the volume covers a broad spectrum of theoretical and thematic approaches to postcolonial and metropolitan topographies and their depictions in writings from Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, South Asia, and greater Asia, as well as the UK, addressing issues such as modernity and market economies but also caste, class, and social and linguistic aspects. At the same time, they reflect on the postcolonial metropolis and postcolonialism in the metropolis by concentrating on an urban imaginary which turns on notions of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation – as the continuing ‘postcolonial’ condition.
Reinventing the City?
Reinventing the City? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reinventing the City? write by Ronaldo Munck. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Reinventing the City? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although Liverpool is the central theme of this book, the author gives an informed comparative overview of the city in a worldwide context. Chapters examine in detail the cultural social and economic legacy of the city.
Urban Walking –The Flâneur as an Icon of Metropolitan Culture in Literature and Film
Urban Walking –The Flâneur as an Icon of Metropolitan Culture in Literature and Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Walking –The Flâneur as an Icon of Metropolitan Culture in Literature and Film write by Isabel Vila-Cabanes. This book was released on . Urban Walking –The Flâneur as an Icon of Metropolitan Culture in Literature and Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume assembles fresh treatments on the flâneur in literature, film and culture from a variety of angles. Its individual contributions cover established as well as previously unnoticed textual and filmic source materials in a historical perspective ranging from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The range of topics covered demonstrates the ongoing productivity of flânerie as a viable paradigm for the artistic approach to urban culture and the continuing suitability of flânerie as an analytic category for the scholarly examination of urban representation in the arts. This productiveness also extends to the questioning, re-evaluation, and enhancement of flânerie’s theoretical foundations as they were laid down by Walter Benjamin and others. The work will be particularly relevant for students and scholars of literary studies, film studies and gender studies, as well as for theoretical approaches to flânerie as an important aspect of urban culture.
The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies
The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies write by Lieven Ameel. This book was released on 2022-08-10. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides a methodical overview of the fundamentals of this developing discipline and a detailed outline of new directions in the field. It consists of 33 newly commissioned chapters that provide an outline of contemporary literary urban studies. The Companion covers all of the main theoretical approaches as well as key literary genres, with case studies covering a range of different geographical, cultural, and historical settings. The final chapters provide a window into new debates in the field. The three focal issues are key concepts and genres of literary urban studies; a reassessment and critique of classical urban studies theories and the canon of literary capitals; and methods for the analysis of cities in literature. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides the reader with practical insights into the methods and approaches that can be applied to the city in literature and serves as an important reference work for upper-level students and researchers working on city literature. Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com
Resilience and the Wandering Subject
Resilience and the Wandering Subject - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resilience and the Wandering Subject write by Supriya Daniel. This book was released on 2024-09-24. Resilience and the Wandering Subject available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What are the different contours of defining a subject? How does a subject form in the act of resilience? This multi-author book explores the concept of a wandering subject, especially in the context of resilience. The wandering subject can be understood as an ever-forming subject through different mobilities. This movement is not just the physical movement compelled by a certain agency but also the various mobilities of the selves of the subject, mobilities through spaces, the interconnections formed with other subjects, and the fluidity between the subject/object/spaces at most times compelled by the spirit of resilience. Each chapter of the book delves into the myriad modalities of movement in spaces that are imagined or real. The space is always one of contestation, be it emerging from gender conflict, or that of a nation or a trauma inflicted by war. In this mode of displacement, either physical, emotional or spiritual (and at times, a seepage of all), the subject evolves and defines itself beyond the boundaries of binaries. It questions available definitions of self, subjecthood and identity and prompts one to imagine ways of comprehending and elucidating the concept of subject. In this sense, the book not only illuminates multiple perspectives on the subject but also compels the reader to formulate their own mode of grappling with this complex idea of the subject. It renders itself as an aid to current and future scholars to re-imagine and re-configure the subject.
