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1 online resource (xii, 232 pages). |
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text file |
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Continuum studies in the city
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Continuum studies in the city.
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WE HAVE BEEN GRANTED TEMPORARY ACCESS TO THIS TITLE. |
| Finding Aids |
Available in electronic full text to members of the University via the Library web catalogue. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-225) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; An Alphabet of Rushdie's Cities; Chapter 1: Introduction: Salman Rushdie's Cities andReconfigurational 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 andDi/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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 exactly how Rushdie has contributed to our understanding of the postcolonial, the contemporary, the local and the global city. It looks beyond the typical urban boundaries favored by Rushdie scholars, discussing Mexico City and Karachi and includes a wider survey of contemporary writers and commentators on urban fictions and urban geography. The result is an informed investigation into the relations that exist between cities. Linking Rushdie's urban portrayals to those of Auster, Ackroyd and Desai as well as Dickens, Bulgakov, and Calvino, this study forms further connections with The Indian epics and Hindu, Ancient Greek and Aztec mythologies. Rushdie's ability to unsettle the constructs of land, the nation and the colonies is realized and the ability cities have of re-constructing one another is charted. This is a critical reflection on the urban imagination, reaching new understanding of what is contemporary in literary cities. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Rushdie, Salman -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Rushdie, Salman. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Cities and towns in literature.
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Cities and towns in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Original. (DLC) 2011049514 |
| ISBN |
1441148647 (electronic book) |
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9781441148643 |
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9781472542755 (electronic book) |
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1472542754 |
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9781441148506 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1441148507 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781441192561 (pdf) |
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1441192565 (pdf) |
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