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Book Synopsis Bombay--London--New York by : Amitava Kumar
Download or read book Bombay--London--New York written by Amitava Kumar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003.When Amitava Kumar left Patna, India, he envisioned himself as an up-and-coming citizen of the world, leaving behind the confines of Indian traditions. Yet like the wave of exiles that preceded him, he found that once we leave our past, we are defined by it: in the U.S. he is pigeonholed by his appearance and quizzed about saris and arranged marriages. "There is no beginning that is a blank page," writes Kumar. Circling the three capitals of the Indian diaspora, Bombay-London-New York captures the contours of the expatriate experience, touching on the themes of abandonment, nostalgia, and exile that have powered some of the most prominent Indian writers today -- Naipaul, Rushdie, Roy, Kureishi, as well as E.M. Forster and Gandhi. With resonant, poetic language and a storyteller's sensibility, Kumar explores the works of these writers through the lens of his own life as an immigrant and writer. As their fiction reveals, the past of the expatriate is mythical,shaped by memory and loss. With tales of life in India and London and meditations on the form Indian fiction gives to the lives of those who read about it, this is a sweeping, passionate search to find one's own story in the stories of others.
Book Synopsis Bombay-London-New York by : Amitava Kumar
Download or read book Bombay-London-New York written by Amitava Kumar and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People Travel; Books Do Too. Bombay-London-Newyork Is A Way Of Measuring The Distances That People And Books Travel. Interweaving The Personal And Professional, Amitava Kumar Blurs The Line Between Literary Criticism And Memoir In This Lucid Chronicle Of Migration And Writerly Development. The Central Narrative In This Book Concerns The Movement Between The Cities Named In Its Title, Although Its Conceit Is That The Journey Truly Lies In The Realm Of Books And Memories. Cities Thus Become Venues For Recollection And Re-Creation In The Mind Of The Indian Writer Of The Diaspora, And Also Sites For Literary Construction. In This Bold Sequel To Passport Photos, Amitava Kumar Continues His Efforts To Return Postcolonial Studies To A Sense Of Lived Dailiness. Combining Thoughts On Such Varied Figures As Arundhati Roy, Laloo Prasad Yadav And Safdar Hashmi With His Own Insights Into Literature And Contemporary Life, He Delivers A Highly Engrossing And Memorable Text In His Appreciation Of The Immigrant Condition.
Book Synopsis Bombay--London--New York by : Amitava Kumar
Download or read book Bombay--London--New York written by Amitava Kumar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Maximum City written by Suketu Mehta and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks. As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.
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Book Synopsis Imagining Bombay, London, New York and Beyond by : Maria Ridda
Download or read book Imagining Bombay, London, New York and Beyond written by Maria Ridda and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines new literary imaginings of the interconnected city spaces of Bombay, London and New York in South Asian diasporic texts from the 1990s to the present. It charts the transition from London-centric studies on postcolonial city spaces to the new axis of Bombay, London and New York. The book argues that two key dynamics have developed from this shift: on the one hand, London, once the destination of choice for migrants, becomes a «transit zone» for onward movement to New York; on the other, different cities are perceived to coexist and come together in one single location. To investigate these new webs of interactions and power relations, this monograph employs Bakhtin's model of the chronotope. Serving as a magnifying lens, the chronotope inserts different spatial and temporal segments within wider narratives of urban space. This book promotes a new understanding of the cities of the South Asian diaspora as subversive sites for defining processes of cultural signification.
Book Synopsis Calcutta Directory for 1874 by : Anonymous
Download or read book Calcutta Directory for 1874 written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
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Book Synopsis The Petroleum Review, with which is Incorporated "Petroleum" by :
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Book Synopsis Criminality and Power in the Postcolonial City by : Maria Ridda
Download or read book Criminality and Power in the Postcolonial City written by Maria Ridda and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the literary imaginings of the postcolonial city through the lens of crime in texts set in Naples and Mumbai from the 1990s to the present. Employing the analogy of a ‘black hole,’ it posits the discourse on criminality as a way to investigate the contemporary spatial manifestations of coloniality and global capitalist urbanity. Despite their different histories, Mumbai and Naples have remarkable similarities. Both are port cities, ‘gateways’ to their countries and regional trade networks, and both are marked by extreme wealth and poverty. They are also the sites and symbolic battlegrounds for a wider struggle in which ‘the North exploits the South, and the South fights back.’ As one of the characters of the novel The Neapolitan Book of the Dead puts it, a narrativisation of the underworld allows for a ‘discovery of a different city from its forgotten corners.’ Crime provides a means to understand the relationship between space and society/culture in a number of cities across the Global South, by tracing a narrative of postcolonial urbanity that exposes the connections between exploitation and the ongoing ‘coloniality of power.’
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Book Synopsis The Postcolonial City and its Subjects by : Rashmi Varma
Download or read book The Postcolonial City and its Subjects written by Rashmi Varma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and contemporary debates on urbanism through the filter of postcolonial fictions and the cultural fields surrounding and containing them. In particular, she presents a representational history of London, Nairobi and Bombay in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and engages three key theoretical frameworks—the city within postcolonial theory and culture (its troubled salience in the construction of postcolonial public spheres and identities, from local, rural, ethnic/"tribal", and regional to "national", cosmopolitan and transnational subjects and spaces); postcolonial fictions as constituting a new world literary space and as a site of the articulation of contending narratives of urban space, global culture and postcolonial development; and postcolonial feminist citizenship as a universal political project challenging current neo-liberal and post neo-liberal contractions and eviscerations of public spaces and rights.
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Book Synopsis Annual Report by : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Download or read book Annual Report written by United States. Federal Communications Commission and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Salman Rushdie's Cities by : Vassilena Parashkevova
Download or read book Salman Rushdie's Cities written by Vassilena Parashkevova and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing Salman Rushdie as a guide to a historicized contemporary, this study offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the plurality of cities along his transnational trajectory. It engages with the geographically identifiable Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad, London or New York; the phantasmal, politically coded, Jahilia or Mildendo, the inspirational yet flawed urban precedents of Fatehpur Sikri or Renaissance Florence and the ways these cities generate, interact with and transform each other. The book situates Rushdie's cities in relation to developments in Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad and London writing and focuses on novels which shuttle between cities. Parashkevova attends to cities' cultural and historical contexts, to many of Rushdie's numerous literary, cinematic and artistic influences and to diverse events, processes and paradigms - earthquakes, translations, seductions - that politically re-position cities and citizens on the contemporary urban map.
Book Synopsis Imagining London by : John Clement Ball
Download or read book Imagining London written by John Clement Ball and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining London examines representations of the English metropolis in Canadian, West Indian, South Asian, and second-generation 'black British' novels written in the last half of the twentieth century.
