The Contemporary Novel and the City Re-conceiving National and Narrative Form [Hardcover]

This book examines the deeply divided terrain of the twentieth century city and its formative impact on narrative fiction. It focuses on two major 'world authors' at the two ends of the twentieth century who write, systematically, about the colonial and postcolonial cities they were born in: James Joyce and Dublin, and Salman Rushdie and Bombay.Acknowledgements 1. City Chronicles 2. Cities of Conflict 3. City, Nation, and the Politics of the Possible 4. The Lettered City 5. Divided Cities 6. Artist's City, City's Artist 7. Some Other City Chronicles 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Stuti Khanna is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.