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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Maria RiddaPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138303874ISBN 10: 1138303879 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 21 November 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Naples and the Siren’s Children Chapter 2: Bombay, Colonialism, and Western Urban Modernity Chapter 3: Mumbai and Naples: The Dramatic Encounter of Land and Sea Chapter 4: Outsourcing, Truth, and Invisibility Chapter 5: Mafia Queens, Spectacles, and Spectres Conclusion: Can Urban Theory be Formulated from Mumbai and Naples ? Bibliography IndexReviewsThis book offers a fascinating and illuminating comparison of Naples and Mumbai. In its readings of postcolonial texts 'through criminal eyes', this study encourages an important rethinking of the relationship between crime, postcolonialism and the urban environment.' -Susheila Nasta, Founding Editor of Wasafiri and Professor Emerita at Queen Mary College, University of London, UK. Juxtaposing fictional works representing the criminal worlds of Mumbai and Naples, Maria Ridda argues convincingly that contemporary discourses of crime both expose the hidden truth of extractive capitalism and are essential to understanding postcolonialism. Developing Marx's insight that criminal laws are intrinsic to capitalist development, and Gramsci's critique of how the 'South' is subjugated through mechanisms of consent, Ridda deftly combines literary analysis, historical contextualisation, and urban theory to open up exciting new avenues for Postcolonial Studies. -David Johnson, Professor of Literature, The Open University, UK Metropolitan peripheries and the disdained souths of the world now overlap and intersect, becoming central to contemporary political and criminal power. The critical studies in this book are elegant testimony to the ethical and aesthetic implications of the violent and seemingly implacable processes of criminality. -Iain Chambers, Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies, University of Naples L'Orientale Author InformationMaria Ridda is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature and Director of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent. She specialises in contemporary South Asian writing, Mediterranean studies, and the intersection between the idea of Europe and Empire today. She is the author of Imagining Bombay, London, New York and Beyond: South Asian Writing from 1990 to the Present (2015), and has published widely in journals such as Interventions, Postcolonial Studies, and Postcolonial Text. She is the co-editor of ‘Decolonising the State’ (Laursen et al., 2020). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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