Bombay Novels :: Some Insights in Spatial Criticism.

Mumbai? Bombay? How do we explain this city and ourselves within it? How do the city and the city dweller together allow for representations of urban life to arise in literature and the fine arts?This book is an understanding of Mumbai, both as an architectural and literary space, through the lens o...

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1. Verfasser: Publisher, Cambridge Scholars
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
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Zusammenfassung:Mumbai? Bombay? How do we explain this city and ourselves within it? How do the city and the city dweller together allow for representations of urban life to arise in literature and the fine arts?This book is an understanding of Mumbai, both as an architectural and literary space, through the lens of spatial criticism and the technique of flânerie. As an icon of experiences, Mumbai is felt through the simultaneous acts of walking, observing, remembering and articulating. In analyzing four novels, namely Baumgartner's Bombay, Ravan and Eddie, Shantaram and Baluta, the book claims that the chara.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (388 pages)
ISBN:152752552X
9781527525528