This paper focuses on the representation of urban spaces in some postcolonial literary contexts, torn between the heritage of orientalism and the contemporary postmodern vision. The city thus becomes the ideal site to stage cultural forces at work, as shown in the fiction and non-fiction of O. Pamuk, S. Saadi, S. Banerjee, S. Metha, C. Mistry, V. Singh, T. Khair.
The shapes of melancholy in the postcolonial city: orientalist reminiscences or postmodern anxieties?
ADAMI, Esterino
2012-01-01
Abstract
This paper focuses on the representation of urban spaces in some postcolonial literary contexts, torn between the heritage of orientalism and the contemporary postmodern vision. The city thus becomes the ideal site to stage cultural forces at work, as shown in the fiction and non-fiction of O. Pamuk, S. Saadi, S. Banerjee, S. Metha, C. Mistry, V. Singh, T. Khair.
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