num_pages: 145
description: Writing the City is a collection of essays that portrays both the commonalities and the diversity of the cities of contemporary South Asia. Through their deeply personal accounts, the contributors explore the relationship of their writings to place and space and thus present the many ways in which city-spaces are created in literature today. Food, travel, architecture, education, memories, political turmoil and a deep sense of nostalgia come together in this collection to provide vivid and vibrant accounts of the authors' creative journeys.The contributors to this collection include well-known names such as Amitabha Bagchi, Anees Salim, Anita Nair, Anjum Hasan, Ankush Saikia, Chandrahas Choudhury, Cyrus Mistry, Manju Kapur, Saikat Majumdar, Samrat Upadhyay, Siddharth Chowdhury, Sumana Roy, Tabish Khair and Zac O'Yeah.
language: English
title: Writing the City: Looking Within, Looking Without
publisher: Orient BlackSwan