Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar

Kanupriya Dhingra (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

75 Seiten

2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-46301-0 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

This Element looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, as a parallel location for books and a site of resilience and possibilities. The first section studies the bazaar's spatiality - its location, relocation, and respatialisation. Three actors play a major role in creating and organising this spatiality: the sellers, the buyers, and the civic authorities. The second section narrativizes the biographies of the booksellers of Daryaganj to offer a map of the hidden social and material networks that support the informal modes of bookselling. Amidst order and chaos, using their specialised knowledge, Daryaganj booksellers create distinctive mechanisms to serve the diverse reading public of Delhi. Using ethnography, oral interviews, and rhythmanalysis, this Element tells a story of urban aspirations, state-citizen relations, official and unofficial cultural economies, and imaginations of other viable worlds of being and believing.

Introduction; 1. 'Locating' Sunday Book Bazaar; 2. 'Hobby bhi hai, roti bhi': The Vendors of Sunday Book Bazaar; Epilogue – 'Joy' as/in Method.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	1-009-46301-2 / 1009463012
ISBN-13	978-1-009-46301-0 / 9781009463010
Zustand	Neuware