Banerjee, Sandeep. <br/><br/>
Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization :  Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (189 pages) 
 - Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series .
 - Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series .
<br/><br/>Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the use of Bengali, Hindi, and Sanskrit -- List of figures -- Introduction: spatial desire in the age of empire -- 1 Of good and evil: the anxiety of utopianism -- 2 Tales of a city: writing colonial Calcutta -- 3 That magnificent song: between the performative and the pedagogic -- 4 A sense of place: narrating knowable communities -- Epilogue: that im/possible spatial desire called decolonization -- Appendix: Jana Gana Mana by Rabindranath Tagore -- Bibliography -- Index. 
<br/><br/> The book illuminates the spatial utopianism of South Asian anti-colonial texts by showing how they refuse colonial spatial imaginaries to re-imagine the British Indian colony as the postcolony in diverse and contested ways. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780429686405 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>South Asian literature-History and criticism-Theory, etc.<br/>Space and time in literature.<br/>Colonies in literature.<br/>Nationalism in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PK5407 .B36 2019