Unseen city : the psychic lives of the urban poor /

In Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, Ankhi Mukherjee offers a magisterial work of literary and cultural criticism which examines the relationship between global cities, poverty and psychoanalysis. Spanning three continents, this hugely ambitious book reads fictional representations o...

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Main Author: Mukherjee, Ankhi (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2022].
Series:Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture.
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