Delhi: New Literatures of the Megacity

Tickell, Alex and Ranasinha, Ruvani eds. (2020). Delhi: New Literatures of the Megacity. Abingdon: Routledge.

URL: https://www.routledge.com/Delhi-New-Literatures-of...

Abstract

In this book, leading scholars working on urban South Asia chart new forms of literature about contemporary Delhi.

Incorporating original contributions by Delhi-based commentators and covering significant new themes and genres, it updates current critical understanding of how contemporary literature has registered the momentous economic and social forces reshaping India’s major cities. This timely volume responds not only to the contextual challenge of a Delhi transformed by economic liberalisation and commercial growth into a global megacity, but also to the emergent formal and generic changes through which this process has been monitored and critiqued in writing. The collection includes studies of the city as a disabling metropolis, as a space of marginal (electronic) text, as a zone of gendered spatiality and sexual violence, and as a terrain in which ‘urban villagers’ have been displaced by the growing city. It also provides close analyses of emerging genres such as urban comix, digital narratives, literary reportage, and city biography.

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