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The volume Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis offers a wide-ranging collection of interdisciplinary essays by international scholars that address the postcolonial urban imaginary across five continents.
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Cecile Sandten, Dr. phil. (1997), Habilitation (2006), both Bremen University, is Professor of English Literatures at TU Chemnitz, Germany. She has published monographs and many articles on Shakespearean adaptations in postcolonial contexts, Indian English poetry and fictions of the postcolonial metropolis. Annika Bauer, M.A. (2011), TU Chemnitz, Germany, is research assistant at the chair of English Literature at TU Chemnitz. She focuses on metropolises in Indian English literature and is co-editor of Stadt der Moderne (City of Modernity; WVT, 2013).
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Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis (Cross/Cultures: Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English: Asnel Papers, 20)
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xxi + 440 pages, NOT ex-library. Interior is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Boards show gentle cosmetic indentations, scuffing to tips of corners (rubbed tip of the upper outer corner of rear board). Issued without a dust jacket. -- Interdisciplinary analyses of how postcolonial cities are imagined, represented, and theorized in literature, media, and culture. The volume addresses the evolving role of urban environments in postcolonial discourse by exploring how metropolitan contexts reflect both the legacies of colonialism and the dynamics of globalization, neoliberal capitalism, and cultural transformation. Drawing on literary studies, cultural theory, linguistics, sociology, and media analysis, the collection repositions the postcolonial metropolis as a site of contestation, hybridity, and layered spatial narratives. Organized into five thematic sections, each engages with specific regions and discursive frameworks. The first, "Citizenship and (Alternative) Market Economies in the Postcolonial Metropolis," focuses on how urban poverty, housing displacement, and informal economies shape and are shaped by literary and media portrayals. Melissa Kennedy's chapter links the material precarity of slum dwellers to long-standing global economic structures, tracing continuities from 19th-century London planning to present-day postcolonial housing policies. Enda Duffy and the team of David Tavares and Marc Brosseau examine intersections of debt, poetry, and identity politics in London through second-generation South Asian British narratives. Building on these economic and spatial dynamics, the second section turns to African and South African cities, with essays on Johannesburg, Kampala, and other locations, interrogating rural-urban dynamics, post-apartheid tensions, queer geographies, and women's rights. Recurring themes include spatial inequality, contested memory, and the city as palimpsest. Contributions show how literature constructs counter-narratives to official redevelopment discourses, emphasizing marginalized communities and repressed histories. The third section focuses on Asian and South Asian metropolises, addressing rapid urbanization, linguistic multiplicity, and the transformation of transit and infrastructure. Contributions analyze literary and cinematic texts from Mumbai, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Topics include urban rhythm, the role of local trains in shaping consciousness, topographies of excess, and the shifting line between the provincial and the global. Poems and fiction articulate transcultural subjectivities and challenge spatial hierarchies. The fourth section, on Australian and Canadian settler cities, considers colonial and postcolonial legacies of urban exclusion, particularly regarding Indigenous populations. Authors explore how Aboriginal and First Nations literature reclaims space through memory, mobility, and counter-mapping. Texts foreground the politics of presence and absence, disrupting dominant narratives and reframing urban identity. The final section examines senses, media, and language in postcolonial experience, analyzing soundscapes, linguistic practices, and audiovisual forms that configure and reshape metropolitan life. Topics include the subversive use of pidgin in Cameroonian media, phonetic variation in Jamaican English radio, and music videos envisioning alternative urban futures in diasporic Britain. The focus is on how sensory and linguistic modes participate in spatial and cultural negotiation, with recurring attention to affect, infrastructure, and mobility as key frameworks, alongside questions of surveillance, visibility, and the production of urban knowledge. Across texts and terrains, the volume traces how the postcolonial city is imagined not just as a place, but as a contested mode of knowing, remembering, and becoming. Seller Inventory # 011380
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2016 Brill hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: Re-Inventing the postcolonial (in the) metropolis: an introduction by Cecile Sandten & Annika Bauer Citizenship and (alternative) market economies in the postcolonial metropolis The economics of urban development for the postcolonial poor by Melissa Kennedy Post-coloniality, poetry, and debt by Enda Duffy Equivocal identity-politics in multi-cultural London by David Tavares and Marc Brosseau Political change and contested spaces in the African and South African metropolis Tracing the rural in the urban: re-reading Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow through Brooding Clouds by Annika McPherson The representation of place in three post-apartheid South African novels by Michael Wessels 'Welcome to Johannesburg': melancholia and fragmentation in Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 by Danyela Demir Angels in South Africa? Queer urbanity in K. Sello Duiker's The Quiet Violence of Dreams and Tony Kushner's Angels in America by Verena Jain-Warden The thrust of the city: penis fixation in Jude Dibia's Blackbird by Chris Dunton The city, hyperculturality, and human rights in contemporary African women's writing by Chielozona Eze The Asian and South Asian metropolises on the move Utopian sights: re-inventing the Asian metropolis by Bill Ashcroft A city on the move: routing urban spaces - literary and cinematic representations of Mumbai's lifeline, the 'local' trains by Mala Pandurang The experience of urban space in the poetry of Arun Kolatkar by Rajeev S. Patke The metropolis in the province: interrogating the new postcolonial literature in India by R. Raj Rao 'No one is India': literary renderings of the (postcolonial) metropolis in Salman Rushdie and Indra Sinha by Roman Bartosch The glocal metropolis: Tokyo Cancelled, The White Tiger, and spatial politics by Pia Florence Masurczak Cosmopolitan poetry from Asian cities by Agnes S.L. Lam Reframing the Australian / Canadian (settler) metropolis City of words: haunting legacies in Gail Jones's Five Bells by Sue Kossew Michelle de Kretser's The Lost Dog: history and identity in the metropolis of Melbourne by Marijke Denger Indigenous urbanities: representations of cities in Native Canadian, Aboriginal Australian, and Maori literature by Frank Schulze-Engler Senses, sounds, and languages in the postcolonial metropolis From postcoloniality to global media culture: multimedial reflections on metropolitan space by Rolf J. Goebel Between ghetto and utopia: London as a postcolonial metropolis in recent British music videos by Oliver Lindner The sounding city: soundscapes and urban modernity in Amit Chaudhuri's fiction by Christin Hoene Pidgin goes public: urban institutional space in Cameroon by Eric A. Anchimbe Emancipation from and re-invention of the linguistic metropolis in a postcolonial speech community by Michael Westphal. Seller Inventory # 69-THKG-DWU9
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