Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-34679-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mohan, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction: Representing the Rural Hind Swaraj and Rural Utopia Beddagama: Dystopia in Ceylon Kanthapura and Khasak: Utopia in Distress Koggala and the Reclaimed Buddhist Utopia Rethinking the Binary: Rural Heterotopia Conclusion Works Cited Index

Über Autor(innen)

ANUPAMA MOHAN is assistant professor at the University of Nevada Reno, USA, where she teaches South Asian studies, critical and literary theory, and Anglophone postcolonial literatures. She has written widely on Indian and Sri Lankan literatures, critical theory, and modern postcolonial drama.