Global Urban Spaces

Madhumita Roy is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, India. She has published extensively in these areas in reputed peer-reviewed journals, including The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, GeoHumanities, The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Dialogues in Human Geography, Balkanistic Forum, and Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, among others.Anjali Gera Roy is a former Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Kharagpur, where she taught courses in language, literature, and communication for over 35 years. Her research spans linguistic, literary, cultural, and performing traditions of India, along with oral histories, folklore, postcolonial, and diaspora studies. Her recent publications include Regional Perspectives on India's Partition: Shifting the Vantage Points (with Nandi Bhatia, 2023), Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India (2019) and Cinema of Enchantment: Perso-Arabic Genealogies of the Hindi Masala Film (2015).

• Preface. Introduction Chapter 1. Rerouting Rushdie’s Novels through Literature on Global Space and Cities Chapter 2. Alternative Geohistories of Global Cities in Salman Rushdie’s Novels Chapter 3. Bombay in Salman Rushdie’s Novels: A Study from Alternative Global Perspective Chapter 4. Houses of Memories: Alternative Global Homes in Salman Rushdie’s Novels Chapter 5. The Production of Alternative Global Spaces: Walking in the City in Salman Rushdie’s Novels. Conclusion. References. Index.