Global Urban Spaces - Reimagining the City in Salman Rushdies Novels

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Madhumita Roy, Madhumita (Department of Architecture Roy, Madhumita (Dept of Architecture Roy, Roy Anjali Gera
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.10.2025
• EAN: 9780367617189
• ISBN: 978-0-367-61718-9
• No. of pages: 104
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / General, History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Cultural Studies, FICTION / Literary, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Humanities, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Urban communities, Indian sub-continent, Literary studies: postcolonial literature