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)
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 [2] Issue New Work in Landscape and its Narration, Ed. Sofie Verraest, et al.
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.
Links:
[1] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/indian-writing-english-respect-city-narratives
[2] http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol14/iss3/7 Thematic
[3] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2018-2019