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- Title
Places in Making: A Spatial Reading of Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis.
- Authors
Jose, Sini
- Abstract
Place is not an emptiness to be filled; rather it is in constant metamorphosis from human actions. The focus on materiality and the awareness of location function as a significant feature of postcolonial Indian fiction. Instead of the traditional notions of place as an unchanging entity and passive background, place is perceived as a dynamic force and cultural construct in contemporary Indian fiction. Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis offers an insight in to the culturally produced places in the urban landscape. Spatiality is projected as caught in the unending process of cultural production. The linguistic, technological, economic and cultural forces are perceived as playing a significant role in the spatial production of places at different scales. The novel depicts the constructed nature of places, the process of spatial construction, the spatial heterogeneity, the close tie between spatial and the social etc. Heterogeneity of the places is underlined in the course. Places at various scales are exposed as subject to power plays. The urban places are projected as the situated places for the working of class, race, gender and the like.
- Subjects
NARCOPOLIS (Book); THAYIL, Jeet, 1959-; PUBLIC spaces; CULTURAL production; HETEROGENEITY
- Publication
Language in India, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 11, p260
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article