Salman Rushdies Cities: Reconfigurational Politics and the Contemporary Urban Imagination (Continuum Studies in the City) ISBN-13: 9781441148506

ISBN-13: 9781441148506

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Parashkevova, Vassilena

Release Date: 19-04-2012

Languages: English

Edition: 1

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• Used Book in Good Condition

Number Of Pages: 256

Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches

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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 Rushdies 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 Rushdies 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.

About the Author

Vassilena Parashkevova is the Bibliography Editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Associate Lecturer in English Literature at London South Bank University.