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Salman Rushdie's cities : reconfigurational politics and the contemporary urban imagination /
This is a critical framework for reading cities in contemporary and postcolonial writing based on the development of the urban in Salman Rushdie's work. Bombay, London, New York and Delhi, cities are central to Salman Rushdie's novels. Reading his urban representations, this study explains...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum International Pub. Group,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Continuum studies in the city.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; An Alphabet of Rushdie's Cities; Chapter 1: Introduction: Salman Rushdie's Cities and Reconfigurational Politics; Chapter 2: Partition and After: Bombay Re/beginnings and Subcontinental Twin Cities in Midnight''s Children and Shame ; Chapter 3: Bombay, London, Jahilia: Di/versifications and Di/versions in The Satanic Verses; Chapter 4: War of the Worlds: Bombay Diptychs and Triptychs in The Moor''s Last Sigh ; Chapter 5: Quaking Solid Ground: Trojan Falls and Roman Rises in The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
- Chapter 6: Metropolitan Desires: Glocalist Seductions in Fury and Shalimar the Clown Chapter 7: Mirrors-for-Cities: Florence and Fatehpur Sikri, orMachiavelli and 'the Prince' in The Enchantress of Florence; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.