Global Urban Spaces: Reimagining the City in Salman Rushdie’s Novels

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Madhumita Roy (Dept of Architecture, Jadavpur Univ, Kolkata) Anjali Gera Roy (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)

Global Urban Spaces

Reimagining the City in Salman Rushdie’s Novels

Madhumita Roy (Dept of Architecture, Jadavpur Univ, Kolkata), Anjali Gera Roy (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)

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Routledge India
24 October 2025

Literary theory; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Cultural studies; Urban communities

From the pre-Islamic Jahilia, early modern Sikri and Florence, to postcolonial Bombay and Karachi, cities have played a pivotal role in Salman Rushdie’s fiction. This book focuses on spatial concerns and urban imaginaries in his works, challenging the dominant metropolitan discourse on cities under globalization.

Rushdie’s works prominently feature cities of the Global South while they explores in great detail the figure of the postcolonial migrant. This book analyses the dynamic cities described in Midnight’s Children (1981), The Satanic Verses (1988), The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995) and The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) and discusses the idea of the global-urban. It examines how these works explore alternative geo-histories, the idea of global homes, and the idea of cities as sites of conflict and contestation, where histories and memories are embedded and reimagined. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of literature, urban studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, sociology, Indian English, and South Asian literature.

By: Madhumita Roy (Dept of Architecture Jadavpur Univ Kolkata), Anjali Gera Roy (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 210g
ISBN: 9780367617189
ISBN 10: 0367617188
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 24 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Madhumita Roy is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, India. She has published extensively in these areas in reputed peer-reviewed journals, including The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, GeoHumanities, The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Dialogues in Human Geography, Balkanistic Forum, and Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, among others. Anjali Gera Roy is a former Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Kharagpur, where she taught courses in language, literature, and communication for over 35 years. Her research spans linguistic, literary, cultural, and performing traditions of India, along with oral histories, folklore, postcolonial, and diaspora studies. Her recent publications include Regional Perspectives on India's Partition: Shifting the Vantage Points (with Nandi Bhatia, 2023), Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India (2019) and Cinema of Enchantment: Perso-Arabic Genealogies of the Hindi Masala Film (2015).