Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures
Description
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.
Keywords
Literary CriticismModern20th CenturySemiotics & TheoryAsianLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative
2012Book
Author(s)Anupama Mohan
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780230354982
LanguageEnglish
