Books in the Literary Cultures of the Global South series

This book explores urban life and realities in the cities of the global South and North. Through literature, film and other forms of media that constitute shared social imaginaries, the essays in the volume interrogate the modes of production that make up the fabric of urban spaces and the lives of their inhabitants. They also rethink practices that engender `cityness¿ in diverse but increasingly interlinked conglomerations. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of media and culture studies, city studies, development studies, global South studies, urban geography, built environment and literature.

This book looks at ways of reading, uncovering and recovering meanings in postcolonial writing in English through the works of Salman Rushdie. It uses textual criticism and applied literary theory to resurrect the underlying literary architecture of one of the world's most controversial, celebrated and enigmatic authors. It sheds light upon key aspects of Rushdie's craft and the literary influences that contribute to his celebrated hybridity. It analyses how Rushdie uses his exceptional mastery of European, Anglo-American, Indian, Arabic and Persian literary and cultural forms to cultivate a fresh register of English that expands Western literary traditions.

This book explores the idea of the 'Global South' through the lens of media and communication studies, as well as possibilities of global thinking in the field. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of media and culture studies, literary and critical theory, digital humanities, and sociology and social anthropology.

This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via the narrative modes of the truth commissions and the various medial responses (memoirs, fiction, poetry, film, art) which have emerged in the wake of the truth commissions.