Ameeth Vijay is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Vijay's book is ambitious and wide-ranging, covering documentaries, architectural design manuals, theories of planning, and advertisements, in addition to realist novels. The book participates in, and pushes in new directions, critical practices in literary studies by drawing together cultural objects across modernist and postcolonial eras and challenging periodizing models that separate these. -- Nicole Rizzuto, Georgetown University Toposthesia joins a growing body of urban studies and critical geography-influenced cultural critique that is making waves not just in academic study but well beyond, in zones of activism, public writing, and even university critique. Vijay fleshes out colonial and neocolonial continuities between time periods in policy, ethos, and language. -- Anjuli Raza Kolb, University of Toronto