Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures

• Author(s): A. Mohan,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 234
• ISBN_10: 1137031891
  ISBN_13: 9781137031891
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Modern / General , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Literary Criticism / Asian / General , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative ,

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.