Postcolonial urban outcasts city margins in South Asian literature

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section One: Urban Outcasts, Urban Subalterns. 1. Recasting the Outcasts: New/Old Urban Subjectivities in Three Hyderabadi Texts / Nazia Akhtar. 2. Macabre Flights and Critical Irrealism: Subalterns and Outcasts in Nabarun Bhattacharya's Fiction / Sourit Bhattacharya. 3. "Someone called India": Urban Trauma and the Tribal Body of Mahasweta Devi's "Douloti the Bountiful" / Jay Rajiva . 4. "Stuck at Pause": Representations of the Comatose City in Vishwajyoti Ghosh's Delhi Calm / Amit Baishya. -- Section Two: The National, The Global, and the Diaspora. 5. Unmoored: Passing, Slumming, and Return-Writing in New India / Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan. 6. Lahore, Lahore Aye: Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid's City Fictions / Claire Chambers. 7. Between Aspiration and Imagination: Exploring Native-Cosmopolitanism in Adib Khan's Spiral Road and Mohammad Hanif's Our Lady of Alice Bhatti / Payel Chattopadhyay Mukherjee, Arnapurna Rath and Koshy Tharakan. 8. Portrayal of a Dystopic Dhaka: On Diaspora Reproductions of Bangladeshi Urbanity / Maswood Akhter. -- Section Three: The Space of the Margins. 9. Imag(in)ing the city: A Study of Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi / Nishat Haider. 10. Gendering Place and Possibility in Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence and Kavery Nambisan's A Town Like Ours / Lauren J. Lacey and Joy E. Ochs. 11. Delhi at the Margins: Heterotopic Imagination and Alternative Urbanity in Trickster City / Sanjukta Poddar. -- Section Four: Forms of Urban Outcasting . 2. "Oh, Oh Colombo": Carl Muller's Palimpsestic Urban Elegy in Colombo: A Novel / Maryse Jayasuriya. 13. The fiction of Anosh Irani: the magic of a traumatized community / Kelly A. Minerva. 14. New Capital? Representing Bangalore in Recent Crime Fiction / Anna Guttman.