LEADER 03852cam a2200541Ii 4500001 99126854018306421 005 20240509055242.0 008 220427t20232023nyu b 001 0 eng d 020 9781138303874 |qhardcover 020 1138303879 |qhardcover 020 |z9781351398121 |qelectronic publication 020 |z9781351398138 |qelectronic book 020 |z9780203730645 |qelectronic book 035 (OCoLC)on1312713601 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dUKMGB |dOCLCF |dYDX 043 a-ii---e-it--- 050 4 PN3352.C74 |bR53 2023 082 04 809/.933556 |223 100 1 Ridda, Maria, |d1978- |eauthor. 245 10 Criminality and power in the postcolonial city : |bmapping the mean streets of Mumbai and Naples / |cMaria Ridda. 264 1 New York, NY ;Abingdon, Oxon : |bRoutledge, |c2023. 264 4 |c©2023 300 ix, 239 pages ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Routledge research in postcolonial literatures 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 This book investigates the literary imaginings of the postcolonial city through the lens of crime in texts set in Naples and Mumbai from the 1990s to the present. Employing the analogy of a black hole,' it posits the discourse on criminality as a way to investigate the contemporary spatial manifestations of coloniality and global capitalist urbanity. Despite their different histories, Mumbai and Naples have remarkable similarities. Both are port cities, gateways' to their countries and regional trade networks, and both are marked by extreme wealth and poverty. They are also the sites and symbolic battlegrounds for a wider struggle in which the North exploits the South, and the South fights back.' As one of the characters of the novel The Neapolitan Book of the Dead puts it, a narrativisation of the underworld allows for a discovery of a different city from its forgotten corners.' Crime provides a means to understand the relationship between space and society/culture in a number of cities across the Global South, by tracing a narrative of postcolonial urbanity that exposes the connections between exploitation and the ongoing coloniality of power.' 545 0 Maria Ridda is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature and Director of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kent. She specialises in contemporary South Asian writing, Mediterranean studies, and the intersection between the idea of Europe and Empire today. She is the author of Imagining Bombay, London, New York and Beyond: South Asian Writing from 1990 to the Present (2015), and has published widely in journals such as Interventions, Postcolonial Studies, and Postcolonial Text. She is the co-editor of 'Decolonising the State' (Laursen et al., 2020). 650 0 Crime in literature. 650 0 Postcolonialism in literature. 650 0 Power (Social sciences) in literature. 651 0 Mumbai (India) |xIn literature. 651 0 Naples (Italy) |xIn literature. 650 7 Crime in literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00883038 650 7 Literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 Postcolonialism in literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01073035 650 7 Power (Social sciences) in literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01074235 651 7 India |zMumbai. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01802300 651 7 Italy |zNaples. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204441 776 08 |iebook version : |z9781351398121 830 0 Routledge research in postcolonial literatures 903 24 910 |cG0601mon |d3110-07 |gYBP |h614291 914 (OCoLC)on1312713601 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240508 |eprocessed |f1312713601 980 17918807 |i170.00 |j139.40 |n40031545913 982 |cf |q32101118495892