Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization

The book illuminates the spatial utopianism of South Asian anti-colonial texts by showing how they refuse colonial spatial imaginaries to re-imagine the British Indian colony as the postcolony in diverse and contested ways.

Autorentext

Sandeep Banerjee is Assistant Professor of English at McGill University. His research focuses on Anglophone, Bengali, and Hindi literature from colonial and postcolonial South Asia; Bengali and Hindi film; and literary and social theory. His articles have been published (or are forthcoming) in Modern Asian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Mediations, and New Global Studies in addition to several anthologies. A recipient of grants from the Fonds de recherche du QuébecSociété et culture (FRQSC) and the Gerda Henkel Stiftung in Germany, he is currently researching the ecocritical imagination of the colonial Himalaya.

Inhalt

Introduction: Spatial Desire in the Age of Empire 1. Of Good and Evil: The Anxiety of Utopianism 2. Tales of a City: Writing Colonial Calcutta 3. That Magnificent Song: Between the Performative and the Pedagogic 4. A Sense of Place: Narrating Knowable Communities Epilogue: That Im/Possible Spatial Desire called Decolonization