Global Urban Spaces

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Reimagining the City in Salman Rushdie’s Novels

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Madhumita Roy, Anjali Gera Roy, Kolkata) Roy, Madhumita (Dept of Architecture, Jadavpur Univ, India) Roy, Anjali Gera (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

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From the pre-Islamic Jahilia, early modern Sikri and Florence, to postcolonial Bombay and Karachi, cities have played a pivotal role in Salman Rushdie’s fiction. This book focuses on spatial concerns and urban imaginaries in his works, challenging the dominant metropolitan discourse on cities under globalization. Rushdie’s works prominently feature cities of the Global South while they explores in great detail the figure of the postcolonial migrant. This book analyses the dynamic cities described in Midnight’s Children (1981), The Satanic Verses (1988), The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995) and The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) and discusses the idea of the global-urban. It examines how these works explore alternative geo-histories, the idea of global homes, and the idea of cities as sites of conflict and contestation, where histories and memories are embedded and reimagined.This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of literature, urban studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, sociology, Indian English, and South Asian literature.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-10-24
Mått156 x 234 x 6 mm
Vikt210 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor104
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367617189

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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.