Younas, A. and Al Othman, K. Y. (2023) Postcolonial metropolitan cities go feral: a critical study of Middle Eastern and South Asian cities in selected anglophone fiction. In: Pourya Asl, M. (ed.) Urban Poetics and Politics in Contemporary South Asia and the Middle East. IGI Publication, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9781668466506 (doi: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6650-6.ch001)
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Abstract
Some postcolonial cities in South Asia and the Middle East have started going feral due to the recent explosion of megacity projects. Even though a feral city encompasses all the unpleasant qualities of corruption, disease, violence, terrorism, crime, and pollution, it plays a significant role in world affairs. Drawing on the notion of the feral cities by Norton and Rafiq, this chapter examines the elements that contribute to the construction of feral cities in Bilal Tanweer's The Scatter Here Is Too Great, Yasmine El Rashidi's The Chronicles of Last Summer, Diana Darke's My House in Damascus, and Christy Lefteri's The Beekeeper of Aleppo. By demonstrating how Karachi, Cairo, Damascus, and Aleppo are depicted at risk of becoming feral cities within the global landscape, the study sheds light on the dangers that contribute to feral conditioning and underlines the multi-dimensional spatial aspects of the represented cities in the selected texts.
| Item Type: | Book Sections |
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| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Younas, Ms Abida and Al Othman, Kawthar Yasser N |
| Authors: | Younas, A., and Al Othman, K. Y. |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies College of Arts & Humanities > School of Modern Languages and Cultures College of Arts & Humanities |
| Publisher: | IGI Publication |
| ISBN: | 9781668466506 |
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