Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 47, Issue 5 (2011)

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Tracing the Urban Imaginary in the Postcolonial Metropolis and the "New" Metropolis

Introduction

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Introduction: Tracing the urban imaginary in the postcolonial metropolis and the “new” metropolis
Ines Detmers, Birte Heidemann & Cecile Sandten
Pages: 483-487
Published online: 01 Nov 2011
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Benjamin’s Arcades Project today: From the European metropolis to the global city
Rolf J. Goebel
Pages: 488-496
Published online: 01 Nov 2011
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Urbanism, mobility and Bombay: Reading the postcolonial city
Bill Ashcroft
Pages: 497-509
Published online: 01 Nov 2011
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Intermedial fictions of the “new” metropolis: Calcutta, Delhi and Cairo in the graphic novels of Sarnath Banerjee and G. Willow Wilson
Cecile Sandten
Pages: 510-522
Published online: 01 Nov 2011
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Street lives, roof lives: Literary transformations of Arab urban spaces after Mahfouz
Christiane Schlote
Pages: 523-534
Published online: 01 Nov 2011
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New India? New Metropolis? Reading Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger as a “condition-of-India novel”
Ines Detmers
Pages: 535-545
Published online: 01 Nov 2011
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Welcome to Msawawa: The post-apartheid township in Niq Mhlongo’s novels of deception
Christopher Warnes
Pages: 546-557
Published online: 01 Nov 2011
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“Cosmopolitanism Within”: The case of R.K. Narayan’s fictional Malgudi
Malreddy Pavan Kumar
Pages: 558-570
Published online: 01 Nov 2011
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REVIEWS

Book Review
The Indian postcolonial: a critical reader
Dieter Riemenschneider
Pages: 571-573
Published online: 01 Nov 2011
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Postcolonial literary history and Indian English fiction
Michelle Keown
Pages: 573-574
Published online: 01 Nov 2011
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Collected poems in English
Bruce King
Pages: 574-576
Published online: 16 Aug 2011
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Cultured violence: narrative, social suffering, and engendering human rights in contemporary South Africa
Sarah Pett
Pages: 576-577
Published online: 16 Aug 2011
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Paradise discourse, imperialism, and globalisation: exploiting Eden
Kate Houlden
Pages: 577-578
Published online: 16 Aug 2011
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Mythologies of migration, vocabularies of indenture
Letizia Gramaglia
Pages: 578-579
Published online: 16 Aug 2011
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Editorial Board

Editorial
Editorial Board
Page: ebi
Published online: 01 Nov 2011
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