Secondary Readings

General:

Hall, Stuart ‘Cosmopolitan Promises, Multicultural Realities,’ in Selected Writings on Race and Difference. ed. by Paul Gilroy, Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Durham: Duke University Press,2021), pp. 2-464.

Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers:

Bornstein, Erica. “Stories of poverty in India: An ethnographer reviews Katherine Boo'sBehind the Beautiful Forevers.”American Ethnologist, vol. 41, 2014, pp. 180-186.

Chant, Sylvia and McIlwaine, Cathy. “Gender-based violence in cities and slums.”Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South: Towards a feminised urban future, Routledge, 2015, pp. 137–154.

Davies, Dominic. “Literary Non-Fiction and the Neo-Liberal City: Subalternity and Urban Governance in Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers.”Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 55, no. 1, 2019, pp. 94–107.

Janet Mary Wilson. “Discoursing on Slums: Representing the Cosmopolitan Subaltern.” Reworking Postcolonialism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 229–43.

Teju Cole, Open City

Fongang, Delphine, “Cosmopolitan Dilemma: Diasporic Subjectivity and Postcolonial Liminality in Teju Cole' sOpen City.”Research in African Literatures vol. 48, no. 4, 2017, pp. 138–54.

Deepak Unnikrishnan, Temporary People

Priya Menon, ‘Pravasi Really Means Absence’: Gulf-Pravasis as Spectral Figures in Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People", South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 43:2, 2020.