Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures

Mohan, A.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349346790

DOI: 10.1057/9781137031891

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 234