Indian Writing in English, with respect to City Narratives

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (b) - Option 22

Unit I *

· Urban Narratives

· City Literature as a Genre and Urban Theory

Unit II #

· The City as an Imaginary

· Place-making Narratives

Unit III π

· Narratives of Urban Space

· Urban Narrative Layers Approach and the City as a Narrative Dispositive 

Unit IV

Kunal Basu’s Kalkatta (2015)

Unit V

Kushanava Choudhury’s The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta (2018)

Source Books: 

Essential Reading:

* “Narratives in Urban Theory” by Napong Tao Kugkhapan in Agora Journal of Urban Planning and Design(2014). 120-29.

 

#  “The Idea of the City: Afterword” by Pamela K. Gilbert in Joan Fitzpatrick’s (ed.) The Idea of the City: Early-Modern, Modern and Post-Modern Locations and Communities (2009). 213-20.

 

π “Towards an Urban Narrative Layers Approach to Decipher the Language of City Films” by Francois Penz in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 14.3 (2012) http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol14/iss3/7 Thematic Issue New Work in Landscape and its Narration, Ed. Sofie Verraest, et al.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Reading:

 

Amin, A. and N. Thrift). Cities: Reimagining the Urban. Polity Press, 2002.

 

Amin, A.  ‘Telescopic Urbanism and the Poor’. City, 17(4), 2013, pp. 476–92, 

 

Banerjee-Guha, S. ‘Neoliberalising the ‘Urban’: New Geographies of Power and Injustice in Indian Cities’. Economic and Political Weekly, May 30th, 44(22), 2009,pp. 95–107.

 

Choudhary, Deepashree. “Realities and Myths of Public Spaces: Conflict and Participation in Kolkata.” International Journal on Emerging Technologies vol. 8, no. 1, 2017, pp. 337–43.

 

Chowdhury, K. The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalisation. Palgrave Macmillan,  2011.

 

Finch, Jason, and Richard Dennis. The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History. Routledge,  2019,  pp. 1-16.

 

Mahadevia, D. ‘From Utopia to Pragmatism: The Paradoxes of Urban Development in India’. Review of Development and Change, 8, 2003, pp. 171–220. 

 

Rao, V. ‘Slum as Theory: The South/Asian City and Globalisation’. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 30(1), 2006, pp. 225–32. 

 

Tickell, Alex. “Writing the City and Indian English Fiction: Planning, Violence, and Aesthetics.” Planned Violence, 2018, pp. 195–211.

Academic Year: 
2018-2019