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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.