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Writing the city : looking within, looking without / edited by Stuti Khanna.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hyderabad, TS : Orient Blackswan, c2020Description: xii, 119 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789352879229 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 809.93321732 KHA 015451
Summary: Writing the city is a collection of essays that portrays both the commonalities and the diversity of the cities of contemporary South Asia. Through their deeply personal accounts, the contributors explore the relationship of their writings to place and space and thus present the many ways in which city-spaces are created in literature today. Food, travel, architecture, education, memories, political turmoil and a deep sense of nostalgia come together in this collection to provide vivid and vibrant accounts of the authors' Creative journeys.
List(s) this item appears in: Writings from the Hearth
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Writing the city is a collection of essays that portrays both the commonalities and the diversity of the cities of contemporary South Asia. Through their deeply personal accounts, the contributors explore the relationship of their writings to place and space and thus present the many ways in which city-spaces are created in literature today. Food, travel, architecture, education, memories, political turmoil and a deep sense of nostalgia come together in this collection to provide vivid and vibrant accounts of the authors' Creative journeys.

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