Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures
Author | : A. Mohan |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2012-07-24 |
ISBN-10 | : 023035498X |
ISBN-13 | : 9780230354982 |
Rating | : 4/5 (982 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures by : A. Mohan
Download or read book Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures written by A. Mohan and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.