Table of Contents

CECILE SANDTEN & ANNIKA BAUER: Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis: An Introduction

CITIZENSHIP AND (ALTERNATIVE) MARKET ECONOMIES IN THE POSTCOLONIAL METROPOLIS
MELISSA KENNEDY: The Economics of Urban Development for the Postcolonial Poor
ENDA DUFFY: Post-Coloniality, Poetry, and Debt
DAVID TAVARES AND MARC BROSSEAU: Equivocal Identity-Politics in Multi-Cultural London

POLITICAL CHANGE AND CONTESTED SPACES IN THE AFRICAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN METROPOLIS
ANNIKA MCPHERSON: Tracing the Rural in the Urban: Re-Reading Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow through Brooding Clouds
MICHAEL WESSELS: The Representation of Place in Three Post-Apartheid South African Novels
DANYELA DEMIR: ‘Welcome to Johannesburg’: Melancholia and Fragmentation in Kgebetli Moele’s Room 207
VERENA JAIN–WARDEN: Angels in South Africa? Queer Urbanity in K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams and Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
CHRIS DUNTON: The Thrust of the City: Penis Fixation in Jude Dibia’s Blackbird
CHIELOZONA EZE: The City, Hyperculturality, and Human Rights in Contemporary African Women’s Writing

THE ASIAN AND SOUTH ASIAN METROPOLISES ON THE MOVE
BILL ASHCROFT: Utopian Sights: Re-Inventing the Asian Metropolis
MALA PANDURANG: A City on the Move: Routing Urban Spaces – Literary and Cinematic Representations of Mumbai’s Lifeline, the ‘Local’ Trains
RAJEEV S. PATKE: The Experience of Urban Space in the Poetry of Arun Kolatkar
R. RAJ RAO: The Metropolis in the Province: Interrogating the New Postcolonial Literature in India
ROMAN BARTOSCH: ‘No One Is India’: Literary Renderings of the (Postcolonial) Metropolis in Salman Rushdie and Indra Sinha
PIA FLORENCE MASURCZAK: The Glocal Metropolis: Tokyo Cancelled, The White Tiger, and Spatial Politics
AGNES S.L. LAM: Cosmopolitan Poetry from Asian Cities

REFRAMING THE AUSTRALIAN / CANADIAN (SETTLER ) METROPOLIS
SUE KOSSEW: City of Words: Haunting Legacies in Gail Jones’s Five Bells
MARIJKE DENGER: Michelle de Kretser’s The Lost Dog: History and Identity in the Metropolis of Melbourne
FRANK SCHULZE–ENGLER: Indigenous Urbanities: Representations of Cities in Native Canadian, Aboriginal Australian, and Māori Literature

SENSES, SOUNDS, AND LANGUAGES IN THE POSTCOLONIAL METROPOLIs
ROLF J. GOEBEL: From Postcoloniality to Global Media Culture: Multimedial Reflections on Metropolitan Space
OLIVER LINDNER: Between Ghetto and Utopia: London as a Postcolonial Metropolis in Recent British Music Videos
CHRISTIN HOENE: The Sounding City: Soundscapes and Urban Modernity in Amit Chaudhuri’s Fiction
ERIC A. ANCHIMBE: Pidgin Goes Public: Urban Institutional Space in Cameroon
MICHAEL WESTPHAL: Emancipation from and Re-Invention of the Linguistic Metropolis in a Postcolonial Speech Community

About the Author

Cecile Sandten, Dr. phil. (1997), Habilitation (2006), both Bremen University, is Professor of English Literatures at TU Chemnitz, Germany. She has published monographs and many articles on Shakespearean adaptations in postcolonial contexts, Indian English poetry and fictions of the postcolonial metropolis.

Annika Bauer, M.A. (2011), TU Chemnitz, Germany, is research assistant at the chair of English Literature at TU Chemnitz. She focuses on metropolises in Indian English literature and is co-editor of Stadt der Moderne (City of Modernity; WVT, 2013).

Reviews

"As a whole, this volume, which broaches the topic of postcolonial justice from a wide variety of angles, constitutes a valuable contribution to scholarship, although further steps will obviously need to be taken, on a global scale, to counter the countless injustices caused by colonialism, past or present."

- Peter O. Stummer, University of Munich, Recherche littéraire, literary research 34, Sumnmer 2018.