Interstices of Space and Memory

Sreedevi Santhosh, Samjaila TH, Sneha Suresh, Preethi S.

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040344095
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Urban Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

The conference intersectionally locates memory and space that reconstruct city chronotopes to explore how identities are reconfigured in metropolitan Indian cities. In taking recourse in locating turning points that could be historical, political or cultural in the life of 'Metropolitan Indian Cities' the perspective that is brought together with personal and collective stories that are recorded in Art /Literature /Curated Projects /Museums is that these moments reshape human values/ ethos in Cities. The assumption made is that at specific moments in time / turning points, with the pandemic for instance the spirit of the city changes. It highlights how human beings in cities account for such changes (the IIHS runs a postcard project on human lives during the plague and corona) being an example. It uses focal moments in the City as the lens to discuss Art, Literature and City Design.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Frontmatter
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• About the College and Department
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgement
• Foreword/Preface
• About the Editors
• 1 Syncretic Spaces of a Popular Islamic Festival Site: A Cultural Critique of Changanassery Chandanakudam in Central Travancore
• 2 Nature in Urban Memory in B.LORE (2022)
• 3 Cricket as a Postcolonial Memory Space: An Analysis of Selected Poems from Caribbean Literature
• 4 Bombay's Slums as a Borsalino Test: An Analysis of the Urban Landscape in Gregory David Roberts' Shantaram
• 5 Psychogeographical Analysis of Kolkata: A Study on K.R Meera's Hangwoman
• 6 Cityscapes as Palimpsests: Reconfiguring Identities in the Living Archives of Indian Metropolis
• 7 Diminishing Memories, Digital Stories— Exploring Memory Loss and Digital Spaces in Stu Campbell's These Memories Won't Last
• 8 A Representation of Bangalore of the 1920s in Harini Nagendra's Fiction
• 9 Intersection of Identity and Public Space: Understanding Narratives of ‘Body’ from the Urban Spaces
• 10 Betwixt the Madding Crowd and the Madhouse: Ambivalent Femininity, Embodied City and the ‘Modern Woman’ in Triveni's Sharapanjara and Doorada Betta
• 11 Quotidian Modernities in Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence and Sam Selvon's The Lonel Londoners
• 12 Archiving Artifacts and Indigenous Material Culture Textiles of the Maram Nagas in Northeast India
• 13 Crafting Urban Landscapes: A Study on Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi
• 14 Mapping a Modern Space through the Spectres of the Past: A Spatial Study of ‘Mattancherry’ as a Site of Rebellion and Urban Nostalgia in the film Thuramukham
• 15 Chayakada: Place-Making of Kerala Migrants in Kothanur, Bengaluru
• 16 Food Movement and Cultural Variation: Contextualizing the use of Bamboo Shoots in Northeast India
• 17 Urban Green Spaces: The Mapping of City Biodiversity
• 18 (Re)-Presenting the Mis-representations of Nyoongar Ancestry in Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance
• 19 Flaneurs of Postcolonial Kolkata: Navigating the ‘Urban’ in Nabarun Bhattacharya's Works
• 20 The Intricacies in the Inevitable Romanticization of Memories—A Re-reading of Sethu's Aliyah—The Last Jew in the Village
• 21 Transcendental Aesthetics Beyond Spatial and Linguistic Boundaries in Lijo Jose Pellissery's ‘Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam’: A Qualitative Content Analysis
• 22 The Urban Gestalt: Understanding Lefebvre's Vision of City
• 23 Cultural Memory Through Space: A Study of Diaspora Literature in the Select Works of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Bharati Mukherjee
• 24 Flavours of Love and Affection in the City of Dreams: Reading the City through Food in Modern Love Mumbai
• 25 Traveling the City: Historicizing Memories of Cities Captured in Narratives and Art— Graffiti and Museums
• 26 Losing Home, Finding Refuge: The Syrian Migration and Pain in Zeyn Joukhadar's ‘The Map of Salt and Stars’
• 27 Film Landscapes of Studio Ghibli: A Study through Space and Time
• 28 From Pavements to Prosperity: The Economic Impact and Challenges of India's Street Food Revolution and FSSAI's Clean Food Initiative
• 29 Mapping the Self and Transcending Spatiality
• 30 Recollection of Spaces and Food as Identity Marker: A Repository of Cultural Memory and Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's Select Short Stories
• 31 Memory in the Works of Agha Shahid Ali
• 32 Mirror Mirror on the wall: Unraveling the Politics of Urban Spaces
• 33 Exploring the Female Representation and Heterotopic spaces in Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence
• 34 Imagined Cities: Exploring Identities of Space and Culture in Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani
• 35 To Be or Not to Be-Citizenship, Identity and Individual Choice
• 36 Why Offensive and Not Free Speech? The “Performativity” of Gender Identities in Digital Heterotopia
• 37 Sculpting Identity through Memories in an Urban Space: Depiction of Identity, Memory and Urbanisation in the Film Loudspeaker
• 38 A Study of Landscapes and Memory in Willa Cather's ‘Wagner Matinee’
• 39 Deconstructing History: Reading the Novel Francis Itty Cora as Site for Counter-Memory
• 40 Regaining Dignity for Slum Communities: The Need for Inclusive Urban Design with reference to Vikas Swarup's Novel Q&A
• 41 Choking Spaces and Blurring Boundaries: Environmental and Cultural Constriction in Amitav Ghosh's Jungle Nama and The Hungry Tide
• 42 Confronting The Labyrinth of Lost Memories: Pari's Struggle and Adaptation in Khaled Hosseini's and the Mountains Echoed
• 43 Globalisation, Repercussions and its Resultant Effects on Women in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Select Novels
• 44 Fragmented Identities and Contested Spaces: Exploring Memory and Refugee Experiences in Dervla Murphy's A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza
• 45 The Intersections of Identity and Tradition, Glimpses of Nagaland: Belonging in a Patriarchal Society in A Terrible Matriarchy
• 46 Closed Spaces and Open Closets— Reading Lihaaf
• 47 The Liminal Odyssey: Navigating the Hauntological Landscape of the Mind
• 48 Navigating Emotion through Food, Space and Time in the Traditional Mexican Household: A Study of Human Emotional Development in Like Water for Chocolate
• 49 Metamorphosing Memory of Imperialism and Cultural Identity in Civilizing Mission of Perceptual Images in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
• 50 Spatial Dynamics and Gender Disparity in Sibling Relationships Within a Household: A Spatial Analysis of the Films Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey and Jo and Jo
• 51 Intersections of New Age Spirituality and Urban Planning in India: Cultivating Well-Being and Harmony in City Landscapes
• 52 Understanding the ‘Invisible’ Agrarian Migrants of Cityscapes: Capability Approach to Social Justice
• 53 Rephrasing Memory: The Reconstruction of Bhima in M. T. Vasudevan Nair's Bhima: Lone Warrior
• 54 Cities of the Future: Urban Spaces and Identity in Margaret Atwood's The Maddaddam Trilogy
• 55 Canvas of Crime: The Metropolitan Cityscapes of Murder
• 56 Narrating the Story of the City Detroit in the Film Ranam: Detroit Crossing