Contemporary Novel and the City - Re-Conceiving National and Narrative Form

Informationen zum Autor Stuti Khanna is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. Klappentext This book examines the deeply divided terrain of the twentieth century city and its formative impact on narrative fiction. It focuses on two major 'world authors' at the two ends of the twentieth century who write, systematically, about the colonial and postcolonial cities they were born in: James Joyce and Dublin, and Salman Rushdie and Bombay. Zusammenfassung This book examines the deeply divided terrain of the twentieth century city and its formative impact on narrative fiction. It focuses on two major 'world authors' at the two ends of the twentieth century who write! systematically! about the colonial and postcolonial cities they were born in: James Joyce and Dublin! and Salman Rushdie and Bombay. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements 1. City Chronicles 2. Cities of Conflict 3. City, Nation, and the Politics of the Possible 4. The Lettered City 5. Divided Cities 6. Artist's City, City's Artist 7. Some Other City Chronicles 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

List of contents

Acknowledgements 1. City Chronicles 2. Cities of Conflict 3. City, Nation, and the Politics of the Possible 4. The Lettered City 5. Divided Cities 6. Artist's City, City's Artist 7. Some Other City Chronicles 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: S Khanna, S. Khanna, Stuti Khanna
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2013
• EAN: 9781137336248
• ISBN: 978-1-137-33624-8
• No. of pages: 237
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, World Literature, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Postcolonial/World Literature, fiction;Narrative;novel;British and Irish Literature