Between the Epic and the Ordinary : locating the Politics of Contemporary Indian Urban Writing in English (Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata)

Marianne Hillion

While the city has been central to the Indian novel in English since the 1980s, the profusion of urban novels, essays and literary reportages published since the 2000s has triggered a formal and thematic renewal of the literary discourse on the Indian city. At the crossroads of literature and urban