Re-inventing the postcolonial (in the) Metropolis

Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis: An Introduction -- CITIZENSHIP AND (ALTERNATIVE) MARKET ECONOMIES IN THE POSTCOLONIAL METROPOLIS -- The Economics of Urban Development for the Postcolonial Poor -- Post-Coloniality, Poetry, and Debt -- Equivocal Identity-Politics in Multi-Cultural London -- POLITICAL CHANGE AND CONTESTED SPACES IN THE AFRICAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN METROPOLIS -- Tracing the Rural in the Urban: Re-Reading Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow through Brooding Clouds -- The Representation of Place in Three Post-Apartheid South African Novels -- 'Welcome to Johannesburg': Melancholia and Fragmentation in Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 -- Angels in South Africa? Queer Urbanity in K. Sello Duiker's The Quiet Violence of Dreams and Tony Kushner's Angels in America -- The Thrust of the City: Penis Fixation in Jude Dibia's Blackbird -- The City, Hyperculturality, and Human Rights in Contemporary African Women's Writing -- THE ASIAN AND SOUTH ASIAN METROPOLISES ON THE MOVE -- Utopian Sights: Re-Inventing the Asian Metropolis -- A City on the Move: Routing Urban Spaces - Literary and Cinematic Representations of Mumbai's Lifeline, the 'Local' Trains -- The Experience of Urban Space in the Poetry of Arun Kolatkar -- The Metropolis in the Province: Interrogating the New Postcolonial Literature in India -- 'No One Is India': Literary Renderings of the (Postcolonial) Metropolis in Salman Rushdie and Indra Sinha -- The Glocal Metropolis: Tokyo Cancelled, The White Tiger, and Spatial Politics -- Cosmopolitan Poetry from Asian Cities -- REFRAMING THE AUSTRALIAN / CANADIAN (SETTLER) METROPOLIS -- City of Words: Haunting Legacies in Gail Jones's Five Bells -- Michelle de Kretser's The Lost Dog: History and Identity in the Metropolis of Melbourne