Contents
List of Illustrations
Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis: An Introduction • Cecile Sandten & Annika Bauer
Citizenship and (Alternative) Market Economies in the Postcolonial Metropolis
The Economics of Urban Development for the Postcolonial Poor • Melissa Kennedy
Post-Coloniality, Poetry, and Debt • Enda Duffy
Equivocal Identity-Politics in Multi-Cultural London • David Tavares and Marc Brosseau
Political Change and Contested Spaces in the African and South African Metropolis
Tracing the Rural in the Urban: Re-Reading Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow through Brooding Clouds • Annika McPherson
The Representation of Place in Three Post-Apartheid South African Novels • Michael Wessels
‘Welcome to Johannesburg’: Melancholia and Fragmentation in Kgebetli Moele’s Room 207 • Danyela Demir
Angels in South Africa? Queer Urbanity in K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America • Verena Jain-Warden
The Thrust of the City: Penis Fixation in Jude Dibia’s Blackbird • Chris Dunton
The City, Hyperculturality, and Human Rightsin Contemporary African Women’s Writing • Chielozona Eze
The Asian and South Asian Metropolises on the Move
Utopian Sights: Re-Inventing the Asian Metropolis • Bill Ashcroft
A City on the Move: Routing Urban Spaces – Literary and Cinematic Representations of Mumbai’s Lifeline, the ‘Local’ Trains • Mala Pandurang
The Experience of Urban Space in the Poetry of Arun Kolatkar • Rajeev S. Patke
The Metropolis in the Province: Interrogating the New Postcolonial Literature in India • R. Raj Rao
‘No One Is India’: Literary Renderings of the (Postcolonial) Metropolis in Salman Rushdie and Indra Sinha • Roman Bartosch
The Glocal Metropolis: Tokyo Cancelled, The White Tiger, and Spatial Politics • Pia Florence Masurczak
Cosmopolitan Poetry from Asian Cities • Agnes S.L. Lam
Reframing the Australian / Canadian (Settler) Metropolis
City of Words: Haunting Legacies in Gail Jones’s Five Bells • Sue Kossew
Michelle de Kretser’s The Lost Dog: History and Identity in the Metropolis of Melbourne • Marijke Denger
Indigenous Urbanities: Representations of Cities in Native Canadian, Aboriginal Australian, and Māori Literature • Frank Schulze–Engler
Senses, Sounds, and Languages in the Postcolonial Metropolis
From Postcoloniality to Global Media Culture: Multimedial Reflections on Metropolitan Space • Rolf J. Goebel
Between Ghetto and Utopia: London as a Postcolonial Metropolis in Recent British Music Videos • Oliver Lindner
The Sounding City: Soundscapes and Urban Modernity in Amit Chaudhuri’s Fiction • Christin Hoene
Pidgin Goes Public: Urban Institutional Space in Cameroon • Eric A. Anchimbe
Emancipation from and Re-Invention of the Linguistic Metropolis in a Postcolonial Speech Community • Michael Westphal
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Index