Postcolonial Urban Outcasts

Extending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontents of the South Asian city. It investigates how South Asian literature and literature about South Asia attends to urban margins, regardless of whether the definition of margin is spatial, psychological, gendered, or sociopolitic

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Madhurima Chakraborty is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literature in the Department of English, Columbia College Chicago, USA.

Umme Al-wazedi is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature in the Department of English and Co-Program Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Augustana College, USA.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Whose City?

Madhurima Chakraborty

Part I: Urban Outcasts, Urban Subalterns

1. Recasting the Outcast: Hyderabadi Subjectivities in Two Literary Texts

Nazia Akhtar

2. The Margins of Postcolonial Urbanity: Reading Critical Irrealism in Nabarun Bhattacharya's Fiction

Sourit Bhattacharya

3. "Someone called India": Urban Space and the Tribal Subject in Mahasweta Devi's "Douloti

the Bountiful"

Jay Rajiva

4. "Stuck at Pause": Representations of the Comatose City in Delhi Calm

Amit Baishya

Part II: The National, The Global, and the Diaspora

5. Unmoored: Passing, Slumming, and Return-Writing in New India

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan

6. Lahore, Lahore Hai: Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid's City Fictions

Claire Chambers

7. Between Aspiration and Imagination: Exploring Native-Cosmopolitanism in Adib

Khan's Spiral Road and Mohammad Hanif's Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

Payel Chattopadhyay Mukherjee, Arnapurna Rath and Koshy Tharakan

8. Portrayal of a Dystopic Dhaka: On Diaspora Reproductions of Bangladeshi Urbanity

Maswood Akhter

Part III: The Space of the Margins

9. Imag(in)ing the city: A Study of Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi

Nishat Haider

10. Gendering Place and Possibility in Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence and Kavery

Nambisan's A Town Like Ours

Lauren J. Lacey and Joy E. Ochs

11. Delhi at the Margins: Heterotopic Imagination, Bricolage, and Alternative Urbanity in Trickster City

Sanjukta Poddar

Part IV: Forms of Urban Outcasting

12. Carl Muller's Palimpse