CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Tomaš, Lora |
|---|---|
| Title | Gendering the Metropolis: The Urban Body in the Indian Poetry in English |
| Summary | This thesis offers a comparative analysis of the oeuvres of four contemporary Indian poets – Mustansir Dalvi, Nabina Das, Akhil Katyal, and Arundhathi Subramaniam – in order to examine the tension between the Indian metropolis and the (gendered) body as it figures in their verses. Drawing from the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Brian Massumi, Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler, Henri Bergson, and Elizabeth Grosz, among others, it explores the role of affect, memory, and performativity in constituting the boundaries of the (moving) urban body, understanding affect as a potentially “asignifying rupture” in a “rhizome” that is the metropolis. Keywords: city; body; gender; Indian poetry; affect; memory; rhizome; flânerie; Deleuze; Guattari; Massumi; Bergson; Grosz; Butler; Ahmed; King; Chaudhuri |
| Supervisor | Jasmina Lukić |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/tomas_lora.pdf |
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