Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures
| By: | A. Mohan |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9780230354982 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137031891 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2012 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.