TY - JOUR
T1 - Fiction and the study of slums
T2 - Anosh Irani's The Cripple and His Talismans
AU - Keren, Michael
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Riny Huybregts for valuable comments on an earlier version of the manuscript and to the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for financial support to J.J.B. (NWO-Earth and Life Sciences Open Programme, NWO Gravity and Horizon Programmes).
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In this article, I deal with the difficulty of applying conventional methods to the study of slums, the poverty-stricken quarters of the world's big cities. I show the difficulty of United Nations (UN) reports, urban studies, and journalistic accounts to grasp the poverty, crime, drug culture, alternative economy, alternative medicine, and political corruption prevailing in slums and analyze Anosh Irani's novel The Cripple and His Talismans as a way to demonstrate how these elements are highlighted by a shift from reality to fantasy.
AB - In this article, I deal with the difficulty of applying conventional methods to the study of slums, the poverty-stricken quarters of the world's big cities. I show the difficulty of United Nations (UN) reports, urban studies, and journalistic accounts to grasp the poverty, crime, drug culture, alternative economy, alternative medicine, and political corruption prevailing in slums and analyze Anosh Irani's novel The Cripple and His Talismans as a way to demonstrate how these elements are highlighted by a shift from reality to fantasy.
KW - Bombay
KW - Fiction
KW - Magical realism
KW - Poverty
KW - Slums
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=65749196141&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10875540801973674
DO - 10.1080/10875540801973674
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AN - SCOPUS:65749196141
SN - 1087-5549
VL - 12
SP - 251
EP - 261
JO - Journal of Poverty
JF - Journal of Poverty
IS - 2
ER -